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Jaguar one man's struggle to save jaguars in the wild

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Main Author: Rabinowitz, Alan, 1953-
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: London : Collins, 1987.
Subjects:
Jaguars.
Mammals > Central America.
Central America > Tropical rain forests > Jaguars
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Item Description:Originally published: New York : Arbor House, 1986.
Includes index.
Physical Description:vi, 368 p., [16] p. of plates : col. ill., col. ports.; 1 map ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:Bibliography: p. 353-357.
ISBN:0002178273 :
Author Notes:Alan Robert Rabinowitz was born in Brooklyn, New York on December 31, 1953. He received a bachelor's degree in biology and chemistry from Western Maryland College and a master's degree and a Ph.D. from the University of Tennessee. His dissertation was about the ecology of the raccoon in Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

He became a leading big cat conservationist for the Wildlife Conservation Society. He established the world's first jaguar preserve in Belize and a vast tiger preserve in Myanmar. He co-founded the wild cat conservation organization Panthera in 2006. He wrote several books including Beyond the Last Village: A Journey of Discovery in Asia's Forbidden Wilderness; Life in the Valley of Death: The Fight to Save Tigers in a Land of Guns, Gold, and Greed; An Indomitable Beast: The Remarkable Journey of the Jaguar; and A Boy and a Jaguar. He died from lymphatic cancer on August 5, 2018 at the age of 64.

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