Jaguar Recovery Plan.

The goal for Jaguar Recovery Plan is to conserve and protect the jaguar and its habitat throughout its range so that its long-term survival is secured and it can be considered for removal from the list of threatened and endangered species (delisted).
As a species that is listed throughout its range (currently 19 countries, including the U.S.), the jaguar presents a significant challenge for recovery planning. The approach in this Recovery Plan contains: 1. to focus exclusively on the jaguar. 2. Two recovery units are included, the Northwestern Recovery Unit (NRU)and the Pan-American Recovery Unit (PARU). The NRU extends from south-central Arizona and extreme southwestern New Mexico, U.S., south to Colima, Mexico. The PARU encompasses 18 countries from Mexico to Argentina. These units are further divided into core, secondary, and peripheral areas.
The strategy for recovery incorporates the important biodiversity principles of representation, resiliency, and redundancy and involves securing jaguar populations throughout their range by removing, reducing, and mitigating the primary threats to the jaguar (habitat loss and fragmentation, illegal killing, and unsustainable depletion of jaguar prey resources). The recovery strategy addresses jaguars throughout their range, but focuses on primarily on the NRU. The following recovery objectives collectively describe the specific conditions under which the goals for recovery of the jaguar rangewide will be met: 1) Ascertain the status and conservation needs of the jaguar. 2) Assess and maintain or improve genetic fitness, demographic conditions, and the health condition of the jaguar. 3) Assess and maintain or improve the status of native prey populations. 4) Assess, protect, and restore quantity, quality, and connectivity of habitat to support viable populations of jaguars. 5) Assess, minimize, and mitigate the effects of expanding human development on jaguar survival and mortality where possible. 6) Minimize direct human-caused mortality of jaguars. 7) Ensure long-term jaguar conservation through adequate funding, public education and outreach, and partnerships. 8) Practice adaptive management in which recovery is monitored and recovery tasks are revised by the USFWS in coordination with the Jaguar Recovery Team (JRT) as new information becomes available.