Jaguar Cars supports research into its namesake in Belize

Friday, October 10, 2003

NORWICH, England: According to talk: Wildlife, a team of young scientists from the University of East Anglia in Norwich, England, arrived in Belize this week to carry out research that will benefit wild jaguars. The three researchers, who are undertaking their projects as part of their MSc studies, will be working with local Belizean organisation, Programme for Belize (PfB), which owns and manages a huge reserve in northern Belize.

The students are Begonia Sastre who is looking at the economic benefits to the local communities of conservation, Dave Redding who is studying the effects of vegetation type on the prey species of the jaguar and puma, and Juan Carlos Ruiz Guajardo who is looking at the effects of logging on jaguar prey.

Jaguar Cars has been supporting conservation in Belize for over 10 years, and their latest grant went to the World Land Trust, who has initiated this imaginative joint programme with PfB and UEA.

The studies will investigate a range of issues, including assessing the conservation benefits to the local people, the effectiveness of corridors between nature reserves, and the expectations of eco tourists. The results of these investigations will help the long-term goals, which are to ensure that sufficient income is generated to pay for the conservation of the land and its wildlife, and the local people are able to derive significant benefits.

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