Rewilding Argentina: lessons for the 2030 biodiversity targets

Donadio, Emiliano; Di Martino, Sebastian; Heinonen, Sofía

doi:10.1038/d41586-022-00631-4

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Rewilding Argentina: lessons for the 2030 biodiversity targets

A foundation that turns private land into national parks is reintroducing native species to restore ecosystems and build ecotourism.

Emiliano Donadio⁰,
Sebastian Di Martino¹ &
Sofía Heinonen²

Emiliano Donadio
1. Emiliano Donadio is science director at Fundación Rewilding Argentina, Scalabrini Ortiz, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
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Sebastian Di Martino
1. Sebastian Di Martino is conservation director at Fundación Rewilding Argentina, Scalabrini Ortiz, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
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Sofía Heinonen
1. Sofía Heinonen is executive director at Fundación Rewilding Argentina, Scalabrini Ortiz, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
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Marianela Masat Fundación Rewilding Argentina, checks on the status of a female anteater reintroduced to the Iberá wetlands. — Ecologist Marianela Masat checks on a giant anteater and her pup after the animals were reintroduced to the Iberá wetlands in Argentina. Credit: Rafael Abuin

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When Mariuá, a 1.5-year-old female jaguar, set foot in our breeding centre in Argentina in December 2018, we did not know that she would make history. Two years later, she walked out with two cubs: the first jaguars to roam the 1.4 million hectares of the Iberá wetlands of northeastern Argentina for at least 70 years. Mariuá and her cubs have started to reverse a process that some had thought irreversible.

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Nature 603, 225-227 (2022)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-022-00631-4

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