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Tuesday, June 17, 2025

Young jaguar dropped off at zoo

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Shastri Boodan
2228 days ago
20190511
The jaguar which was dropped off at the Emperor Valley Zoo on Friday.

The jaguar which was dropped off at the Emperor Valley Zoo on Friday.

Agri­cul­ture Min­is­ter Clarence Ramb­harat is en­cour­ag­ing cit­i­zens to tip off the zoo and Forestry Di­vi­sion about peo­ple who have il­le­gal wildlife in their pos­ses­sion. Ramb­harat said il­le­gal wildlife was be­ing smug­gled from near­by South Amer­i­can na­tions to T&T. He said the lat­est was a jaguar that was dropped off at the Em­per­or Val­ley Zoo on Fri­day. Ramb­harat said it was not un­usu­al for peo­ple to con­tact the Em­per­or Val­ley Zoo to hand over an an­i­mal they can longer take care of, are un­will­ing to care for, or, in a few cas­es, they no longer want to keep and risk pros­e­cu­tion.

Fri­day's call and drop off at the gate of the zoo was not un­usu­al ex­cept that the de­liv­ery in the pro­tec­tive crate was a young jaguar, ob­vi­ous­ly smug­gled in­to the coun­try, with­out a per­mit and with­out the ap­pro­pri­ate tests. The jaguar has been ex­am­ined by vets and quar­an­tined.

He said, "It’s the fright­en­ing side of the il­le­gal trade in wildlife par­tic­u­lar­ly out of Venezuela. This one was sur­ren­dered to us but my con­cern has al­ways been around those peo­ple who pur­chase or get these vi­cious an­i­mals as pets and lat­er aban­don them when they get old­er. To a ca­su­al ob­serv­er, this looks like an ocelot but it is a rel­a­tive­ly young jaguar. It’s about 30 inch­es long. We’ll con­tin­ue to en­cour­age peo­ple to tip us off via the soo or Forestry Di­vi­sion and to re­port any sus­pi­cion about il­le­gal wildlife."


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