Davis, T. (2024, January 24). U.S. says it won’t reintroduce Jaguars. Arizona Daily Star. https://tucson.com/news/local/environment/jaguar-endangered-species-tucson-center-biological-diversity-us-fishandwildlifeservice/article_bd1a37c2-baec-11ee-a4aa-0b122da26d63.html 

This article details how one environmental group petitioned to reintroduce endangered jaguars into Southern New Mexico’s Gila National Forest. However, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has turned down the petition because they believed that the reintroduction would not protect the species any further. In addition, they believe that human interference would have to be regular in order for the jaguar population to sustain itself in the wild. Many environmentalists are upset at this development because they believe that the jaguar population in the U.S. needs to be prioritized and that recovery is possible without human interference.

This article relates to environmental science because it shows how many scientists and environmentalists can approach the same problem with the same mindset and still come up with a different solution. Both the service and the petitioners claim they are dedicated to recovering the jaguar population, and yet are at odds at how this should be administered. The infinite nuances in solving environmental science issues, such as economic and moral factors, are at play in this situation. I was interested in this article because I actually didn’t know that jaguars were considered native to southern New Mexico or any part of the United States.