All of those are at risk of habitat loss due to the fires, threatening the jaguar’s food supply. Even before the fires began this year, the WWF estimated that the Amazonian jaguar was in danger.

Jaguar numbers in the Amazon Rainforest may be higher than previous estimates, according to a new large-scale study that offers the most comprehensive population snapshot to date. Using camera ...

As omens go, this isn't a great one: an Amazon jaguar was shot dead shortly after its participation in a torch lighting ceremony honoring the Rio Olympics. Juma the jaguar had participated in the ...

Images of the jaguar were woven into shawls and funeral shrouds of the Chavín people, whose civilization emerged in Peru around 900 B.C. Some tribes in the Amazon drank jaguar blood, ate jaguar ...

Dense jungle and rivers are visible from the window a small plane flying tourists into the Amazon. (Courtesy of Lorene Heck) Read this next: 'Sister Jaguar's Journey' takes a healing odyssey into ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. In Ixiamas, an Amazonian town in Bolivia, community members are fighting to prevent jaguars from continuing to be victims of wildlife trafficking.

A UK explorer has discovered the source of an uncharted Amazon river and two waterfalls, accomplishing this feat all while being stalked by a jaguar and attacked by insects, SWNS reported.