Macho B, the 16-year-old jaguar sighted in the American southwest several times over the past decade, has been euthanized by the Arizona Game and Fish Department after being caught in one of the department’s own traps. The animal had been captured and fitted with a radio collar by Game and Fish only last month. Conservation organizations working for protection of the jaguar and its transborder habitat had expressed concerns about the collaring, fearing that it might lead to the animal’s death. The cause is not yet known, but Michael Robinson of the Center for Biological Diversity declared that Macho B’s death is a blow to recovery of the species in the region and “a major setback for the jaguar, particularly given that the border wall is making it much harder for jaguars to reoccupy their ancestral homes in the southern United States,”
Photo: Arizona Game and Fish Department
