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04/07/2008 15:40. Dr. Alan Rabinowitz, you may not be familiar with the name, but he’s the man who literally wrote the book on jaguars in Belize. He did! The book is called Jaguar and, published in 1986, it details his work in establishing the Cockscomb Wildlife Reserve. Today, we caught up with Rabinowitz who is visiting Belize’s emerging jaguar expert, Omar Figueroa. Figueroa as we’ve told you is working in 18,000 acres of reserve in central Belize. That’s only a small portion of all the nature reserves that are arrayed across the country. But that’s a far cry from 1978, and Rabinowitz told us that when he first came to Belize, the idea of a reserve or even wildlife conservation was laughable.

Jules Vasquez Reporting,

He first came to Belize in 1978 – at that time no one had studied... // Channel 7 Daily News