It’s been a little over a month since there was no trace Acaithe Yaguarity Recently released in El Impenetrable National Park is located in Chaco. Its geolocation signal stopped recording, and since then nothing has been known about these cats, a protected species in critical danger of extinction in Argentina. Due to the complete lack of news, the National Park Service (APN) – which has already activated a judicial investigation and a large-scale search operation – announced $250 million reward For those who provide information about the whereabouts of the animal and those responsible for its disappearance.
This announcement coincided with an anniversary World Jaguar Day“This situation prompts us to redouble our work so that the tiger can once again live freely and safely in the national parks and surrounding areas,” APN said on its social networks.
Akai was just under three years old.. She was born on February 28, 2023 and was released into that majestic park in the Chaco on October 5, but her life in nature took an unexpected turn when park rangers found the GPS collar that had been placed on the cats at the bottom of the Bermejo River. The last satellite signal in which the animal was seen was recorded on October 25.
“There are two possibilities: the first is that Akai is at the bottom (of the Bermejo), but we all know that bodies float. The most likely thing is that someone killed her, took off her necklace and threw her into the water,” said Sebastian Di Martino, Bermejo’s director of environmental conservation. Argentina Wildlife Rehabilitation FoundationHe is one of the scientists who accompanied the female from her birth until her release, and he is now searching for the jaguar.
The APN confirmed that it will continue to work with that organization, with the Chaco authorities and the federal justice system to clarify the facts that were the main reason behind declaring the species a national natural monument. In Argentina, only about 200 specimens are estimated to survive, distributed between the Paranaense forest, Ibera wetlands, Yungas and Gran Chaco, according to APN..
The organization stressed that “his disappearance, which is currently the subject of a judicial investigation, deeply pains us, but also forces us to reaffirm the path we have been following: the preservation of biological corridors that allow communication between populations, the continuous monitoring and monitoring of released individuals, and, above all, working with local communities to promote coexistence between people and wildlife.”