Jaguars in the New Millennium Data Set Update: The State of the Jaguar in 2006.

The Jaguars in the New Millennium Data Set is a geographically-based priority setting exercise for jaguars throughout their range. The Wildlife Conservation Society, with the help of 35 jaguar experts from throuhgout this great cat's range, created the first data set in 1999. The Wildlife Conservaiton Society updated this data set in 2006 with the help of 89 jaguar experts. The experts were surveyed to assess the state of knowledge about the ecology, distribution, and conservation status of the jaguar, to identify priority areas for is conservation on a range-wide basis, and to build an international consensus for the conservation of the species.