ニューヨーク・タイムズさんのインスタグラム写真 - (ニューヨーク・タイムズInstagram)「They were a troubled bunch: Tobuna was overweight and lethargic. Her daughter, Tania, had been mauled and was missing a leg. And Nahuel required custom dental work to ease the exasperating toothache that made him constantly grumpy. But they are among the first jaguars drafted to be reintroduced to Argentina’s wetlands after more than 7 decades of absence. “They all had pretty traumatic stories,” said Sebastián Di Martino, a biologist who oversees conservation projects at the Rewilding Argentina Foundation, an initiative to restore the health of the country’s ecosystems by reintroducing species wiped out by human activity. Still, Di Martino was thrilled to get any and all jaguars for the yearslong effort to create vast wildlife sanctuaries across Chile and Argentina. The idea of rewilding jaguars grew out of a project of Kristine and Douglas Tompkins, who ran the outdoor equipment and clothing companies Patagonia and the North Face before turning full time to environmental causes. In the 1990s, they began snapping up millions of dollars worth of land in the Southern Cone of South America. The goal of the American couple (Mr. Tompkins died in 2015) was to acquire the first building blocks of what would eventually become national parks. The battlegrounds the Tompkinses picked have at times been rather hostile. As they began acquiring land, they were often greeted with suspicion. But the naysayers were proved wrong as the conservation efforts at Iberá National Park — and the buzz surrounding the jaguars’ return — transformed the park into an emerging tourist destination. To read more about the rewilding jaguars in Argentina, tap the link in our bio. Photos by @victormoriyama」9月6日 6時01分