Megan "Turtle" Southern 

Director

Before joining the Rewilding Institute, Turtle was the coordinator of the Northern Jaguar Project, where she provided programmatic, fundraising, and administrative leadership. While with NJP, she helped to establish and grow the 56,000-acre Northern Jaguar Reserve in Sonora, Mexico, organized scientific research projects and conservation education among youth, and worked extensively with ranchers to promote coexistence with felines and other wildlife. With a B.A. in Biology from Wittenberg University, Turtle has worked with the Student Environmental Action Coalition, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, Earth First! Journal, as a crew member with the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, and with the Center for Biological Diversity when the jaguar received protection in the U.S. under the Endangered Species Act. Email Turtle

Posts by Turtle in Rewilding Earth

Rewilding Earth got in on the ground floor of podcasting in 2018, in the days before the medium’s meteoric rise. The personable, genuine, creative, and always sharp host Jack Humphrey

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A Rewilding Earth Podcast Mixtape

Acaí at El Impenetrable – Photo courtesy Rewilding Argentina In March, a two-year-old wild female jaguar born in the Iberá wetlands of northern Argentina was captured and translocated to El

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Another Jaguar Steps into the Wild at El Impenetrable

This is a continuation of Creatures of the Starlight: Looking for El Tigre in Sonora. As we drove south through the northern jaguar corridor, the road seemed designed to lead

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Where Rivers Roar and Jaguars Roam: A Wild Return

Nos conocimos al norte de Argentina, en el Parque Nacional El Impenetrable en Chaco. Uno de nosotros, visitante desde la zona fronteriza entre México y Estados Unidos, quería descubrir cómo

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Criaturas de Luz de Estrellas: Buscando al Tigre en Sonora

Léelo en español We met at El Impenetrable National Park in the Chaco region of northern Argentina. One of us a visitor from the U.S.-Mexico borderlands wanting to know just

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Creatures of the Starlight: Looking for El Tigre in Sonora

In the Sky Island mountain ranges on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border, roughly a dozen jaguars have been observed in recent decades. This includes those sighted in the United

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A Hundred Pawprints on the Road to Wildness