Pampas researchers try to save the felines

The wild dog lives in the grasslands of the pampas, and its researchers, along the borders of northeastern Brazil, Uruguay, and Argentina, make it one of the most threatened populations in the United States and perhaps the world.

Large felines are often seen in camera photos.

This is an abandoned black cat (Leopardus monoi).

“There are only 100 or fewer animals left in the wild,” says Fabio Mazimi, a conservationist from the Brazilian nonprofit organization Pró-Carnívoros.

“I think the species will be extinct within 5 to 10 years.”

Little is known about abortion in the pampas cat, so scientists cannot agree on whether the aborted cat is a different species or if it is the colocolo leopard.

Although the Bischoff Wildlife Authority has not officially listed Leopardus munoi in the special IUCN cat group, scientists have begun to recognize it as a separate species.

Preventing pumpkin weeds is not easy.

Recent floods in the Rio Grande do Sul temporarily halted all efforts to protect the species.

The project includes visits to three dog villages, building conservation coalitions, and giving lectures at local universities and schools.

Habitat Decline and Researchers

The biggest threat to the Pampa is habitat loss, the largest tropical forest in South America, covering 1.2 million square kilometers.

It spans two-thirds of Argentina and most of Uruguay and South America, with more than 12,500 species representing 9% of Brazilian biodiversity as well.

It is also believed to be a controlled experiment in the world.

Over the last fifty years, rapid deforestation of native vegetation in search of soy, rice, and eucalyptus has left only 43% of the original forest in the pampas.

“It feels like I forgot the bomb.”

“Forest environments are vast and complex,” says Gerhard Overbeck, a botany professor at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul.

As their habitat has been reduced to small forests, the Pompéia jacinth has suffered mortality due to humans, dogs, hunting of migratory birds, and vehicles.

The bear has disappeared in all these tests.

“Every death is a great loss for a very small number,” said Maze.

Source of information: brasil.mongabay.com

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