TUCSON, Ariz.— Environmental groups filed a lawsuit today challenging the U.S. Forest Service’s plan to build new roads and allow increased motorized access through three sensitive canyons in the ...

A newly documented jaguar in southern Arizona suggests that this powerful cat is slowly reclaiming parts of its historic U.S. range. At the same time, the sighting highlights how fragile that return ...

Jaguars will not be repopulated in New Mexico, after the federal government denied a petition by a conservation group that sought to use Gila National Forest for the species’ recovery. The Center for ...

Protecting jaguar habitat is likely to alienate ranchers and hunters, so they won't report jaguar sightings out of concern that it could increase regulations, said Warner Glenn, a rancher who lives in ...

Mexico's jaguar population has grown significantly in recent years --- up 30% since 2010, but the largest feline in the Americas remains at risk of extinction. That’s according to the National ...

Western Mexico’s rapidly expanding shrimp farms, many of which are illegal, are contributing to the deforestation of the Pacific coast’s mangroves, an important habitat for jaguars. Satellite images ...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has denied a petition to reintroduce jaguars in New Mexico but is still considering a proposal to expand the imperiled species’ critical habitat in Arizona and New ...

The estimated number of jaguars. 1972: Jaguars were listed as a foreign endangered species by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service 1980: Jaguars were removed from the endangered species list. 1994: The ...

LAS CRUCES, New Mexico (KVIA) --Recent sightings of jaguars in Arizona have raised the possibility of the large cats roaming southern New Mexico. “[The jaguar] is moving throughout these mountain ...