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La Guajira, salina de Manaure, Colombia, 1979.

“El rostro de esta joven guajira está ennegrecido con carbón para protegerlo del sol.”

Moffett desert lion, 1979.

“Carrying little more than a change of clothes and a pair of binocu lars, two young Americans, Mark and Delia Owens, caught a plane to Africa, bought a third-hand Land Rover, and drove deep into the Kalahari Desert. There they lived for seven years, in an unexplored area with no roads, no people, and no source of water for thousands of square miles. In this vast wilderness they met animals that had never seen humans before. They would wake in the morning to find lions sleeping beside them; leopards, giraffes, and brown hyenas were regular visitors to the camp. But the Kalahari isn’t Eden, and Mark and Delia Owens were continually confronted with danger from drought, fire, violent storms, and even from the animals they loved…”

Belize, 1979. “Me watching Pollyanna from the stand the jaguar later jumped under.”

“Melanie Watt’s passion for jaguars began with a grueling 144-mile bicycle marathon in the tropics of Belize to publicize the plight of the jaguars and to raise money for a planned nature reserve to protect them and their habitat.

Jaguar Woman is the true story of Melanie Watt’s great adventure in the remote jungles of Belize, a small country just south of Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula, where she studied these beautiful but elusive creatures.

Jaguar Woman tells of Melanie Watt’s efforts to preserve one of the most beautiful and endangered big cats. She has helped to draw attention to the animal’s plight and gained support and funding for the world’s first jaguar reserve. Now the magnificent and elusive jaguar will be able to reign undisturbed in the jungles of Belize.”