Mexico’s jaguar population surges 30% as communities and scientists join forces
Mexico’s jaguars are thriving in ways that surprised even the scientists doing the counting. The 2024 census — the most ambitious mammal survey ever conducted in Mexico — deployed 920 cameras across 15 states over 90 days, with nearly 50 researchers working shoulder-to-shoulder with Indigenous and rural communities whose land knowledge shaped where every camera was placed. That partnership is the real story here: local stewardship didn’t just support the science, it drove it. What Mexico is proving is that large predator recovery is possible when conservation is genuinely community-rooted — and that model is spreading.
