SPECIES WE PROTECT: PLANTS

The Northern Jaguar Reserve contains desert vegetation, foothills thornscrub, tropical deciduous forest, riparian galleries, and oak woodlands. Together, these habitats form the unique mix of biodiversity found here. View our plant list.

Photos: Hilary Lex, Brendon Kahn, Mikal Jakubal, Rita Leal, Fork Tailed Media, Michelle Dillon, Angel Breault, Tom Van Devender, Mike Bender

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Northern Jaguar Project

In 1958, an archaeologist uncovered a carved conch shell pendant in a rock-and-earth mound in Missouri. This gorget revealed unmistakable features of a jaguar: the nature of its spots, body shape, head, ears, and tail. Although no one knows the exact age or origin, it parallels important religious motifs seen throughout Mesoamerica, where the jaguar is a powerful symbol of the underworld and figured in countless Mayan glyphs. NJP received permission from the University of Missouri to use the image as our logo.

The Northern Jaguar Reserve is on the traditional lands of the Ópata people. At the Northern Jaguar Project, we recognize and respect the long history of this land and the connections that the Ópata and other Indigenous peoples have to this place.