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JEFF
PONIEWAZ
No More
Jaguar Cats, Just Jaguar Cars
The last known wild jaguar in the
was just found
dead—somewhere in the Southwest.
In his 1948
recollected his youthful visit to
the mouth of the
lush and tropical where that
river emptied
into the
he wrote: “All this was
far away and long ago.
I am told the lagoons now raise
cantaloupes.
By this time the Delta has been made safe for
cows.
Freedom from fear has arrived,
but a glory has departed
from the green lagoons.”
After the
the
and petered out in the sand
where there used to be
green lagoons and jaguars
used to roam.
According to Mayan legend, their civilization
would collapse if the jaguar
became extinct.
The last known wild jaguar in the
was pronounced dead not
long before Earth Day 2009.
Pacific
Life
The Humpback Whales
do not have Pacific Life
insurance.
Not even the
has Pacific Life
insurance.
The
dwindling supplies of marine life
and an island of plastic
the size of
between