Emiliano Ruprah

Heute 17:45 - 18:30 45 min. 3SAT HD16:9 A 2020 Tierdokumentation Vom federleichten Monarchfalter bis zum tonnenschweren Grauwal - sie und unzählige weitere Arten legen Tausende Kilometer zurück, um alljährlich ein ganz besonderes Ziel zu erreichen: Mexiko.

Guyana’s port city of Bartica sits where the Cuyuni, Essequibo and Mazaruni rivers meet. It has long served as a launching point for gold and diamond miners—known as pork-knockers—on their dangerous journey into the wilderness in search of fortune. Nicknamed after the pickled peccary, or wild hog, they often eat, the pork-knockers scatter throughout the dense jungle in small mining outfits of a dozen or so people.

Tracking Jaguars is all about detective work,” says ecologist Gerardo Ceballos as we trek through the dense forest of Mexico’s Calakmul Biosphere, a protected natural reserve of about 2,700 square miles in the heart of the Yucatán Peninsula. We are followed by biologist Heliot Zarza Villanueva, a jaguar hunter turned conservationist known as Don Pancho, veterinarian Susana Llescas Furter, bloodhound trainer Eliu Campos Hernandez, and one of his trainees, Monica.