What Is a Jaguar Worth in the Rupununi?
In Brazil’s Pantanal, a single jaguar has been valued at more than US$1,000,000 a year from tourism. That estimate comes from seven Porto Jofre lodges, which grossed US$6,827,392 from jaguar-watching in 2015. Four hundred miles north, however, Guyana’s North Rupununi holds the same cat at comparable or higher densities. The difference is sightings. For example,…