"The principal conflict between humans and jaguars is livestock depredation. This occurs because areas of wild jaguar habitat have been converted to grazing land for domestic livestock, thereby reducing the jaguars’ habitat and available wild prey."(394)

"When healthy jaguars are injured or maimed by indiscriminate shooting, they may be unable to feed upon wild prey, and thus are forced to prey on domestic livestock (Rabinowitz 1986b)."(394)

"This jaguar decline is exacerbated by the common livestock management methods. In the Pantanal of Brazil and the Llanos of Colombia and Venezuela, cattle are often allowed to range freely over large areas. Because the jaguar feeds opportunistically on a wide variety of prey, jaguars readily kill cattle roaming freely within their habitat. This behavior has perpetuated the idea that jaguars cannot co-exist (sic) with ranching activities."(394-395)

"In many areas, jaguars account for only a small percentage of annual livestock mortality. This is most often true when cattle are free-ranging.In the Pantanal of Brazil, Schaller (1983) found that most livestock deaths resulted from starvation, disease, and drowning."(395)

"Jaguars can range close to cattle without bothering them. It is usually only certain individual jaguars that kill domestic stock, and when these jaguars are killed, losses may cease, even with other jaguars in the area."(395)

"Cattle-killing jaguars are often old or injured individuals. In Belize, 9 of the 13 carcasses of jaguars that were killed because of livestock depredation showed old shotgun injuries to the head or body."(395)

"Jaguars generally prefer closed forest cover to open forest or pasture (Crawshaw and Quigley 1991). In Belize, healthy adult jaguars were reluctant to cross man-made boundaries into pastures or villages, despite the presence of potential domestic prey."(395)

"Sport hunting of problem jaguars is still simply a system of killing jaguars for profit. It does not protect jaguars, nor does it address the cause of the livestock depredation problem."(395)

Suggestions for a Conservation Strategy:
"1. Creation of larger and more extensive protected areas throughout the jaguar’s range….
2. Creation of special jaguar reserves or jaguar management areas….
3. Education and management programs for local ranchers. Many ranchers who manage their livestock in traditional ways are unaware of how improved management may provide substantial economic benefits….
a. Fenced cattle pastures or pens that restrict livestock from wandering into or near forested areas containing jaguars.
b. In free ranging herds, restricting pregnant cows and cows with newborn calves to pens or open fields, away from forest.
c. With free-ranging herds in seasonally flooded areas, moving herds onto higher grounds before the onset of flooding.
d. Restricting the hunting of wild prey in forest areas around ranches.
4. Government assistance to all individuals with jaguar problems….
5. Stricter penalties and enforcement for the illegal killing of jaguars….
6. Jaguar conservation education."(396)