Our first small group journey to Brazil's Pantanal with Nick Kleer included a donation supporting the Jaguar ID Project in their work of documenting and studying jaguar ecology in the Northern Pantanal region of Porto Jofre.

This non-profit initiative leverages citizen-science and researcher observations to construct a comprehensive database focusing on the distinctive identities of individual jaguars inhabiting the Northern Pantanal region within the Meeting of the Waters state park.​ The Pantanal stands as the global epicenter not only for hosting the densest jaguar population but also for nurturing the most habituated jaguars. This characteristic makes it an unparalleled site for witnessing wild jaguars thriving in their natural environment. Since the early 2000s, the project has been cataloging jaguars in this area, utilising their spot patterns in a similar to way to how we humans use fingerprinting techniques.

By harnessing facial, left, and right profile photographs, primarily contributed by tourists, they have successfully distinguished 369 individual jaguars. This process has culminated in the creation of the Jaguar Guide, offering an extensive inventory of insights into individual key identifiers, behaviors, lineages, relationships, home ranges, and movement patterns.