'Nature has no borders': four countries join to free 2,050 km of river for the jaguar's return

At Buenos Aires' Malba museum on September 25, Rewilding Argentina's Sofia Heinonen and 76-year-old conservationist Kris Tompkins launched Jaguar Rivers — a joint initiative of four NGOs across Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil and Paraguay to protect and patrol 2,050 km of the Parana river basin. The plan plants at least one biodiversity "ark" per ecosystem and enlists private landowners to stitch them together, so otters, jaguars and more than 20 threatened native species can move freely again — with four donated boats starting permanent river patrols. "I have seen species go extinct inside a national park," Heinonen said. "We have to think bigger."