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Jaguar in Sierra del Merendo\u0301n mountains \u2013 Credit: Panthera-Honduras<\/p>\n Jaguar in Sierra del Merendo\u0301n mountains \u2013 Credit: Panthera-Honduras<\/p>\n
Just weeks ago, a jaguar was captured on camera in Honduras\u2019 Sierra del Merend\u00f3n mountain range for the first time in a decade as part of high-tech monitoring and conservation efforts from\u00a0Panthera<\/a>, the global wild cat conservation organization.<\/p>\n Taken among cloud forest at over 6,000 feet in elevation on the range\u2019s highest peak, the images capture an impressively healthy male jaguar just two meters from the exact location of the park\u2019s first-ever jaguar sighting<\/a>\u2014recorded 10 years and 2 days earlier.<\/p>\n They \u201ccloud\u201d moniker this cat has picked up in the media isn\u2019t a reflection of speciation, such as the leopard and the clouded leopard, but merely because of its habitation atop the highest of heights in Honduras.<\/p>\n The discovery also marks the highest elevation at which a \u201ccloud jaguar\u201d has been documented in Honduras, with the species most commonly found below 3,000 meters, and provides rare evidence that jaguars are still moving through this high-elevation corridor between Honduras and Guatemala.<\/p>\n More than anything, the 2026 images suggest that a decade\u2019s dedication of anti-poaching ranger patrols, conservation technology investment, and prey reintroduction, including peccaries and iguanas by Panthera and partners\u2014as well as Honduras\u2019 vow to eliminate deforestation by 2029<\/a>\u2014are showing wonderful signs of success.<\/p>\n