Research overview: jaguars at the expanding urban and agricultural edge

Although associated with wilderness, jaguars increasingly contact human-dominated landscapes as agriculture, ranching and settlement fragment their range across Latin America. This overview synthesises research on jaguar use of forest remnants, plantations and ranch mosaics near towns, the conflict arising from cattle depredation, and the road and persecution mortality at the frontier. It examines connectivity planning across the Jaguar Corridor initiative, the rare instances of jaguars near cities, and coexistence strategies for a large apex predator under habitat pressure. The synthesis frames the jaguar as a wilderness carnivore increasingly forced to negotiate the human-modified edge, with conservation hinging on corridors and conflict mitigation.