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GRRL POWER: REWILDING FEMALE JAGUARS TO SAVE THE CHACO’S WILD POPULATION Incredible #rewilding news from rewilding_argentina! Keraná, a rescued Jaguar from Paraguay, is the first female of her species (Panthera onca) to be set free in El Impenetrable National Park, where female Jaguars have been absent for decades. Keraná is one of two female Jaguars slated for release in the coming months. Rewilding female Jaguars to El Impenetrable National Park in Argentina, where there are none, will provide a genetic lifeline to a species destined for extinction there. Today, only 10 confirmed Jaguars remain in Argentina’s part of the one-million-sq km expanse of the Gran Chaco, all of which are male. One of the most threatened ecosystems in the world, the Chaco is second only to the Amazon in terms of size, biodiversity and ecological importance in South America, though it is largely unknown and undefended. Thanks to the coordination of Fundación Rewilding Argentina (an offspring org of to...

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