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Entries for March 2021

WCS-led study of jaguar and puma feeding habits

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WCS-led study of jaguar and puma feeding habits
(March 11, 2021) Jaguar (Panthera onca) and puma (Puma concolor) are the largest felines in the Americas. They share the same habitat throughout most of their distribution. Both are strict carnivores, so knowledge of their feeding habits is fundamental for the design of conservation strategies, since diet plays a key role in the evolutionary behavior of predators. Likewise, the availability of prey is one of the main factors that determine the presence, behavior and ecology of predators in the ecosystems where t...

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18 tons of coffee produced under agroforestry systems exported with WCS support

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18 tons of coffee produced under agroforestry systems exported with WCS support
(March 01, 2021) In February, the Asociación de Productores de Café Ecológico Regional Larecaja (APCERL) and the producers of the TCO Lecos de Apolo, exported to the United States a container of 18.27 tons of coffee, worth $us. 123,512, through the social enterprise Orygen-Chomateo SRL, with the support of WCS, in the framework of the project "Wildlife-friendly agroforestry and sustainable forest management in Bolivian indigenous territories", funded by the UK Government through the “D...

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