Join us in celebrating #InternationalPumaDay! Tompkins Conservation started our puma monitoring program in 2008 with our offspring Fundación Rewilding Chile in Patagonia National Park Chile, gathering unprecedented information about the species predation patterns, territory, movements and threat, making it the one with the longest-term study of this species in South America. Our offspring, Fundación Rewilding Argentina, has been monitoring and studying pumas since 2018 in Patagonia National Park

Meet the puma: Chilean Patagonia's top predator As an apex predator, this large cat (Puma concolor) plays a critical role in many ecological processes in the environments that it inhabits. Pumas (also called cougar or mountain lion) help control the population of wild herbivores and through their kills, provide food to many scavenger species such as Andean condor. In this video, you can see Catimba, the dominant male in the Valle Chacabuco sector of Patagonia National Park. Our offspring Fundaci