Pantanal and Emas National Park, Brazil -- Project Description -- Christian Brothers Univ.

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Pantanal, Brazil
Emas National Park, Brazil
Carnivore Conservation Project Descriptions for 2006-2007

1) Epidemiology of small carnivores around Emas National Park: capturing, collection of blood-samples of small carnivores (Mane Wolves, crab-eating foxes) and domestic canids around ranches.
2) Jaguar and puma project: radio-tracking, camera-trapping, mammal census, scat and kill collection. Jaguar Conservation Fund
3) White-lipped peccary and tapir project: radio-tracking, capturing and radio-collaring, management of white-lips into a peccary farm close to the study site.
4) Cerrado-pantanal corridor project: camera-trapping and track surveys of medium-large vertebrates.
The projects in the field are continuous. We live at the study site and leave the area for short periods to visit the Pantanal study site.

Report from Jenny Bernard working on the jaguar tracking project in the Pantanel (July 2005 from Caduceus)

2004 Project Report: Jennifer Longo and Sara Lynch (Maned Wolf) Slide show

This Earth watch site has more photos and information on the projects: Pantanal Conservation Research Initiative

Report from Jenny Bernard working on the jaguar tracking project in the Pantanel (July 2005 from Caduceus)
Pantanal 2005: Photos from Jenny Bernard

I am working on the jaguar ecology and conservation project in the Pantanal. I am staying at Caiman ranch which is absolutely gorgeous. We ride horses a lot because the roads don't all go where we have to in order to radio-track the jaguars. The capture was in June and was awesome. Totally crazy, but it was awesome to be chasing jaguars through the woods. The jaguar in the picture is the only one I have seen while I've been here. I work with Dr. Claudia Ferro full-time but Dr. Leandro Silveira is my mentor for the summer.

Pantanal 2005: Photos from Jenny Bernard

Pantanal article (National Geographic, Aug. 2005)

Pantanal Conservation and Research links

Map showing Pantanal location

CBU's MIRT Student Researchers in 2004:
The Carnivore Conservation Project, Emas National Park, Brazil

Report from Dr. Leando Silveira, June 2004: "Sally and Jen at work. [Up to now, they have been] involved in 13 maned-wolf captures (3 new individuals), 3 pampas-cat and 1 ocelot. They are working on their maned-wolf ecology and conservation project." Fundo para a Conservação da Onça-Pintada / Jaguar Conservation Fund

Leandro Silveira
Associação Pro-Carnívoros
Cx. Postal 86
75.830-000 Mineiros-Goiás-Brasil

Jaguar tracks on a beach (photo not from Brazil)

Caiman Ranch (an ecotourism site and where Jennifer Bernard did her research ion 2005)
Endangered jaguars blamed for cattle losses in Brazil

Pantanal Conservation Research Initiative Jaguar Conservation Fund Conservation of Neotropical Carnivores	More MHIRT Projects, information on how to apply, etc. MIRT 2001 Projects and Photos Slide show by Dr. Fitzgerald (with photos from Summer 2001)
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