A jaguar slips through the forest corridor — a photograph a decade in the waiting

Deep in the forest on the Guatemala–Honduras border, a camera trap caught a male jaguar passing through — the kind of photograph conservationists say comes along about once a decade. The cameras, run by the wild-cat group Panthera and Guatemala's National Council of Protected Areas, watch a corridor that links jaguar populations across Belize, Guatemala and Mexico with those in Honduras, keeping the cats connected instead of stranded in shrinking pockets of forest. The same landscape guards the water source for more than 200,000 people.