This year?s 2022 International Jaguar Day we are celebrating by reflecting on the importance of their exitance in this world.

500,000 years of evolution has created an animal so beautiful, so powerful that humans have been worshiping them as gods since the beginning of language, art, music, dance and storytelling.

Water is the mirror that has the ability to show us what we cannot see. It is a blueprint for our reality, which can change with a single positive thought. All it takes is commitment, if you?re open to it. Jaguars have no commitments, no opinions, no authorities, no regrets for being exactly what they are. 

Does a jaguar know its own beauty? Do you think Juru has ever seen himself in a clam puddle? Juru is a male jaguar famous to the Encontro das ?guas State park. Born in 2015 and over his life time visitors that have traveled from all over the world have taken hundreds of thousands if not millions of photographs of him. Yet he himself does not even know his own beauty. 

This year we would like to step back and reflect a little on this incredible animal, the only large cat of the Americas.

The most beautiful creatures do not know how beautiful they are until they see their reflection in water. ? Matshona Dhliwayo