Welcome to the US Fish and Wildlife Service’s Jaguar Observation Database. This site was developed in partnership with the Jaguar Recovery Team, a collaborative, bi-national team tasked with arresting the decline of the jaguar, which is listed as an endangered species.
This site is meant to capture in one central, easy-to-use database, all known observations of jaguars across their northern range that are publicly available. Anybody with an internet connection can search this database for observations matching their criteria and see them on a map and in a table. Users can change search criteria to filter results by clicking on the "Change Search Criteria" button.
This site also contains further information about the project and other tutorial videos like these, as well as definitions for all search criteria, useful links to associated sites and projects, a contact link, and a login portal for site administrators.
This site can be translated into Spanish using the built in Google Translate tool, making it easy for people across the jaguar's northern range to access and interpret this data.
It's worth mentioning that there are different basemaps on which to display your data. The default is the Terrain map, but you can alternately turn on the Road map or the Satellite map for a different visualization. Also in the upper right hand corner of the map is a key for information on interpreting point and polygon data, which are the items that you see on the map.