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The link between human health and animal conservation isn't an obvious one, but one wildlife-conservation group wants to demonstrate that saving jaguars and other big cats can also improve the lives of people.
Panthera, an international organization that works to protect wild cats and their habitats, has teamed up with the Mount Sinai School of Medicine's Global Health and Emerging Pathogens Institute to train a new brand of "doctor conservationists" in Brazil's Pantanal region, a UNESCO World Heritage Site that boasts over 700 square kilometers of critical jaguar habitat. It also happens to be the largest cattle-ranching domain in the world and a hotbed of rancher-jaguar conflict because of the threat the cats represent to livestock.
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