Argentina's elusive big cats

阿根廷的神秘大型猫科动物

The Documentary Podcast

2025-12-23

26 分钟
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After decades of extinction, wild jaguars are once again roaming in Northern Argentina. It has been at least thirty five years since a wild jaguar cub was spotted in this dry and dusty part of Argentina. But in August 2025, a baby appeared on the chocolatey-brown banks of the River Bermejo. Its existence was a great success for the team from Rewilding Argentina, a non-profit foundation that started reintroducing these magnificent beasts here in 2019. But it has not been easy: hunting is still a problem and the organisation has had to get the locals on board with sharing their home with big cats. Charlotte Pritchard travels to 'The Impenetrable Forest' to find out how the birth of this baby became possible. This episode of The Documentary comes to you from Assignment, investigations and journeys into the heart of global events.
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  • The impenetrable forest in northern Argentina is also known as the forest of spikes,

  • because most plants and trees here are covered in them.

  • I'm standing right next to a tree that has spines like rhino horns protruding from its trunk.

  • Amongst the spikes and spines, jaguars used to roam.

  • But thanks to hunting and deforestation, the population was practically extinct.

  • Until last month,

  • a very exciting creature was spotted on the banks of the muddy river that surrounds this forest.

  • A Jaguar cub.

  • I'm Charlotte Pritchard and for this week's assignment on the BBC World Service,

  • I've come here to find out who made that possible and what the future is for this new Jaguar family.

  • My colleague Macarena Gagliardi and I are going to make our way to the dusty banks of the River Bermejo.

  • We're going to spend two days navigating this river

  • because it's the most likely place we will spot a jaguar.