ENDANGERED SPECIES ACT PROFILE

PROTECTION STATUS: Endangered

YEAR PLACED ON LIST: 1972 (foreign list only); 1997 (United States)

CRITICAL HABITAT: None; critical habitat announced forthcoming January 2010; proposal due January 2011

RECOVERY PLAN: None; forthcoming recovery plan announced January 2010

RANGE: North from Argentina to the U.S.-Mexico borderlands, where a small population continues to live

THREATS: Habitat loss, federal predator control, and construction of a U.S.-Mexico border wall

POPULATION TREND: There are an estimated 10,000 jaguars left in the wild today, including approximately 500 in Mexico. Though jaguars once roamed throughout the southern and central United States, only four jaguars have been confirmed in Arizona and New Mexico since the mid-1990s.