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BRASILIA – One of the jaguars rescued with serious injuries caused by the fire of the Marshland can go back to nature after about a month of undergoing modern veterinary treatments paid for by NGOs and volunteers, in Goias. The less time the wild animal is caged, the better for adaptation. However, federal government agencies have yet to present a plan or date for the feline’s return to its habitat.
On the other hand, it is in the plans of the president’s teams Jair bolsonaro and the Minister of the Environment, Ricardo Salles, a visit to the Pantanal next week to accompany the release of the jaguar. The trip is being planned, but not yet confirmed.
Bold, name given by the riparians to the specimen of the species, a male, was found on the banks of a river in Mato Grosso, on September 11, by the report of the Status, which covered the fires in the Pantanal. The entire rescue process has been documented, since before the arrival of veterinarians and volunteers.
The possibility of the return of the jaguar carries a strong symbolic charge for the biome that has been ravaged by fire for months. The animal managed to escape the flames by accessing a still preserved bank of the Corixo Negro River. When discovered, second-degree burns to all four legs had undermined cunning and the ability to feed.
Bold has undergone modern ozone and laser treatments applied every other day. The “padding” of the legs was compromised by burns. He is now strong, well fed, and ready to go back to nature.
“The medical discharge means that he is no longer being anesthetized or subjected to bandage changes. The wounds are completely healed. Now, it is up to the competent organs to decide when, how and to which region he will return,” said the veterinarian. Thiago Luczinski.
A specialist in wild animals, Luczinski is the technical director of the NGO Nex No Extinction, located in Corumbá de Goiás, 80 km from Brasilia. The site functions as a sanctuary for jaguars that have suffered irreparable damage and can no longer return to the wild.
The federal government does not have a specific center to treat this type of animals in temporary treatment. At the request of technicians from government agencies, Bold was in the care of the NGO, a benchmark in the country in the care of big cats.
He suffered the same fate as Amanaci, another jaguar saved from the Pantanal, but with third degree burns. His case is more serious and the use of the claws may have been permanently compromised. His return to the Pantanal remains uncertain.
Daring lived an odyssey of more than 1,200 kilometers through water, land and air to survive. Taken from the outskirts of Porto Jofre, Poconé (MT), to the capital Cuiabá in a Navy helicopter, he traveled by road to Goiás in an air-conditioned van.
With the exception of the flight in the official aircraft and the trip by truck from the Fire Department from the Cuiabá airport to the UFMT, the rest of the journey was covered by NGOs dedicated to animal protection. The treatment was also funded by volunteers from the third sector. Medicines and supplies sufficient for 15 days cost around R $ 10,500.
Federal agencies have not yet contacted the third sector entities involved in the process to address the return operation. It is not known how it will be or who will pay for the transport.
The return zone is also unknown until now. Inserting a jaguar into a community already teeming with other specimens of the species can lead to fatal struggles and render the entire struggle to save it in vain, technicians warn.
In addition, Ousado was found in the vicinity of the Encontro das Águas State Park, a famous bastion of jaguars in Brazil with the highest concentration of the animal. The park had at least 85% of its area of 108 thousand hectares affected by the fire.
THE Status He sought out the Navy, the Ministry of Defense, the Ministry of the Environment and the ICMBio in search of information on the operation to return the jaguar to the Pantanal. The Navy, through the VI Naval District, reported that “it has not received a request for support for the operation to return the jaguar to nature.” The rest did not speak.
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