TUCSON, Ariz.— A new video released today by the Center for Biological Diversity captures a rare wild jaguar moving through a Sky Island mountain range south of Tucson, offering a striking glimpse of one of North America’s most endangered mammals.

“Seeing this incredible jaguar roaming in Arizona’s wild sky islands is a powerful reminder that these cats belong in the American Southwest and northern Mexico,” said Russ McSpadden, Southwest conservation advocate at the Center. “Tragically jaguars’ northern range is being ripped apart by Trump’s border wall construction, along with mining, groundwater depletion and climate-driven drought. We need to take urgent action to protect our vital cross-border ecosystems so jaguars can continue prowling the southern Arizona landscape alongside bears, pumas and ringtails. A landscape this wild is too precious to sacrifice.”

The footage, captured by remote wildlife cameras, includes three clips recorded in March and April 2026. The videos show a large adult male jaguar nicknamed “Cinco” by the Wild Cat Research and Conservation Center in 2025 after it became the fifth jaguar documented through the group’s monitoring efforts in the region. At least nine jaguars have been seen in the Southwest since 1996.