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Expeditions organized by Projeto Puma only. At page 'Expedition Reports' there are reports that mostly result from a partnership with an international NGO.
The first expeditions (taking groups) were in the form of field courses. They were located in the State of Santa Catarina, south Brazil. Two structures were used, the once ranch-hostel 'Fazenda Dourado', located at the Cajuru site, Lages, and the 'Fazenda Gateados', located at Campo Belo do Sul.
First expedition with groups to the tablelands of Santa Catarina, next to River Pelotas (at the limits between Santa Catarina and Rio Grande do Sul).
From left to righ and from back to front, Paulo Roberto Lidke (UNOESC), Elsimar Silva (ONG Montanha Viva), Rosane Vera Marques (procuradoria/MP), Yuri Narozniak (PUC-Curitiba), Marcelo Mazzolli (Projeto Puma), Alan Bolzan (UCS), Gustavo F. Aver (UCS), Susi Missel Pacheco (Poa).
Participants were prof. Sidnei S. Dornelles (UNIVILLE), Rodrigo Cechin (UNIVILLE), Lísia Simone Lucchesi (ULBRA), Raquel von Hohendorff (Fundação Zoobotância do RS), Bárbara Guandalini (PUCPR), prof.a Cecília Bueno (Univ. Veiga de Almeida-RJ), Karina Vasconcelos Vieira (biologist), e Jayme Augusto Prevedello (UFPR).
Puma footprint, common to find at this specific location.
Expeditioners were Franciele Piccollo, Daniela Felix Ribeiro, Flávia Biff Corrêa, Dalvana Toretti Vassoler, Denise Lidório de Matia (all from UNESC-SC) e a veterinária Semíramis Azevedo Soave (RS).
In search of tracks at low speed.
This time three trucks were needed given the number of participants.
Daiane F. Trombin, Alexandre Miranda, Artur H. F. Rios, Larissa M. Gonçalves, Mauro dos Santos Zavarize, Roberta A. Machado, Ricardo P. Bernardo, Jonathan Frasseto, Erica C. Raldi, Michele M. Oliveira, e Rita de C. F. Santos (all from UNESC-Criciúma, SC), and professor Hamilton C.Z. Grillo, Aline Scherer, Cristiane Inês Stapenhorst (UNIVATES-Lageado, RS).
Participants were Tatiane Micheletti Ribeiro Silva (UNIVALI), Eloisa Figueiredo Lima (Universidade Veiga de Almeida – UVA), Cristine Silveira Trinca (PUC-RS), Taiana Haag (UFRGS), Antonio Camilo Alemida Freitas Junior (UNIANDRADE-PR), Cleber Junior de Souza Saraiva, Liziane Marcos da Rocha, Juliana Nascimento Martins, Renata Dal Corno, Eduardo Pasini (UCS), Ricardo Mucci, Gabriel Mucci.
A short video (1 Mb) of participants exploring new trails, but they were not very quiet...
Raphael Oliveira, Caroline Elise Schnack, Raphael L.M. de Almeida, Jeovane Warmling.
Monitoring species richness using data collected during the expedition. It includes a table of presence and absence of species according to sampling occasions (0=absent, 1= present), and a cumulative species curve.
From left to right, participants of the expedition, Mariana Bueno Landis (Universidade do Sagrado Coração, Bauru-SP), Roberto Manfroi Maria (Faculdade União das Américas, Foz do iguaçu-PR), e Gabriel Shimokawa Magezi (Universidade do Sagrado Coração, Bauru-SP).
We bump into a group of white lipped peccaries. The picture shows the peccaries running away from us, scared.
Our heroes, in the rain present during the last day. From left to right, Sandra Ludwig, Patrícia Fabich Calegaro (Uniamérica-Foz do Iguaçu), Rafael Sobral Marcondes (IB-USP), Adebaldo Leite de Lima Junior (Uniamérica-Foz do Iguaçu), Roberto Ferrero, Guilherme Siniciato Terra Garbino (IB-USP), e Giácomo Clausi (Curitiba).
Several expeditions were conducted to the 'APA de Guaratuba', a reserve, no Paraná, between 2005 and 2011. These expeditions, like the other ones, had the purpose of studying the conservation status of the jaguar and puma, and other threatened species.
Pilot field trip to the in November 2005. The above image, Sr. Antônio, at the time environmental agent at Vila Parati, and Marcelo Mazzolli (Projeto Puma).
Below, abandoned road that lead to Vila Parati. After that we opt to use boats to explore further.
Report from Mr. Antonio on an encounter with a jaguar (in Portuguese).
Below, field base Ecoplan.
Two expeditions were conducted to the Sooretama Biological Reserve, located in Espírito Santo, during 2012 and 2014. These expeditions, as the other ones, were looking at the conservation status of jaguar, pumas and other threatened species.
Recors of jaguar, puma and ocelot in the reserve.
Expedition in 2012. From left to right, and from back to front, Sebastião Peroni - Tomate (ICMBIO), Aliny Oliveira Barcelos (UVV-ES), Marcelo Mazzolli (Projeto Puma), Leonardo Merçon (Últimos Refúgios), Ana Maria Albuquerque de Oliveira (RO), Pedro Rodrigues Busana (SP), José Roberto Oliveira (ES), Marilene Davel Dariva (ES), Marcelo Renan Santos (IMD), Amabili Falqueto Mistura (Pró-tapir), Átila Ferreguetti (Pró-tapir), Valdívia Rocha F. Caetano (IMD), Brandon LaBumbard (Oswego), Ryan Laughlin (Oswego), José Carlos (RO), Ivanildo Rosa (RO), Jérôme Gabriel (Bélgica), Daniel Chabu (SP), Paulo Rogério Mangini (Pró-tapir), Ilka Westermeyer (Últimos Refúgios), Hanaide Alencar (RO), Hilsa Pinto (RO), Neriane Monteiro Néry (RO), Andressa Gatti (Pró- tapir), Nicole Vandeuson (Oswego).
Two expeditions were conducted to the 'Flona de Jamari', a reserver, in Rondônia, during 2013 and 2015. With abandoned mining operations and two timber companies operating with low impact, the presence of biodiversity was amazing. A wide variety of primates was easily visible, and many tracks of pumas, jaguars and other mammals, plus the presence of macaws and other rare birds. Besides that, people residing in the village inside the reserve coexisted well with wildlife.
Expedition in 2013. From left to right, Aliny Oliveira Barcelos (research assistant and field monitor), Meire Hellen dos Santos Piauy, Katrina Marie DeBaun (Suny Oswego), Candida Bello, Isadora Stefany Queiroz Paula, Célia Ferreira, Michelle Teixeira, April Nicole Hampton (Suny Oswego), Victor Hugo, Márcio José Pugnaloni Martins, Andrew Rubio (Suny Oswego), Richard Diogo da Silva, Nathalia Eliza, Alexandria Esheyigba (Suny Oswego), Cecile e John Laundré (Suny Oswego). Present also was Nathalia Donato, which had to leave earlies, and Samuel dos Santos Nienow (environmental analyst from ICMBIO) that has guided us during the initial reconaissance trails.
Participants in 2015, Flona do Jamari.
Records of jaguar in the Flona de Jamari (black and gray squares).