Jaguar released to protect endangered animals in Argentina | Argentina News | NewsRme

To help save this critically endangered species, an Argentinean national park recently released a jaguar called Jatobazinho.
Despite being the ninth jaguar released into Ibera National Park this year, Rewilding Argentina, the environmental organization behind the operation, claims that this is the first adult male.
Jatobazinho has dark fur with black patches, and he weighs around 90 kilograms (200 pounds).
In 2018, after crossing a river from Paraguay, he initially showed up at a remote school in Brazil, appearing thin and sickly.
After a year at a Brazilian wildlife sanctuary, the big cat was transferred to Argentina's northeast Corrientes region, where the jaguar had been extinct for 70 years and where a reintroduction program has been functioning since 2012.
It was important for the jaguar to be calm and at ease before it was released into the wild, according to a scientist from Rewilding Argentina.