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US abandons jaguar recovery plan
Fri 18 January 2008 13:50 UK — North America,Big Cats
US authorities have abandoned proposals to launch a recovery plan for the endangered jaguar, claiming that there are too few of the animals in New Mexico and Arizona to justify any action.
The US Fish and Wildlife Service shelved its plans to launch a concerted effort to boost the population of the big cat that is currently protected under its Endangered Species Act.
However, the decision has been criticised by conservationists who claim that the real issue is the effect a plan would have on the proposed border fence between the US and Mexico, the Associated Press reported.
The move had been recommended by Benjamin Tuggle, regional director of the US Fish and Wildlife Service in Albuquerque, who claimed that conservation efforts for the jaguar should be focussed on Central and South America.
"Actions taken within the United States are likely to benefit a small number of individual jaguars peripheral to the species, with little potential to effect recovery of the species as whole," he wrote in a memo obtained by the Associated Press.
According to the US government, only four jaguars have been identified in the country's southern states since 1963, with one spotted last year.
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