That day of August 2018 in the rural school of Jatoba, in the Brazilian Pantanal, was not a typical one. A young male jaguar swam across the Paraguay River and arrived at the coast in terrible shape, then sheltered under an upside-down boat lying on the river bank.
Teachers and villagers notified the Chico Mendez Biodiversity Conservation Institute, who sent technicians from the Mato Grosso do Sul University to paralyze and translocate him for primary care.
Kids from the Jatoba School gave him a name: Jatobazinho. That was the first day of his incredible story, one that involves governments and institutions in the return of a wild male jaguar to his righteous freedom, afar from his home, in the Iberá Wetlands.
