17 Journal 7 March 1973. Caracas, Venezuela desire park dept., who is trying to get jaguar reserve set aside in Yasunuy, 15000 ha. of Inst. Agrario Nacional Land. He said jaguar, odoto, pampas tree; also peccar, agoutis, timarou, peccaries. To be called Dona Paula. Reach via San Felipe or Puerto Cabello. He said jaguar in Mata de Guadalupe, NW of Caicara on his finca- quits; N of La Brea. Also F. wiedii in N. Falcon in Nat. Park ... del Toro, Pueblo La Taza. || He said F. wiedii sometimes makes call like timarou (panda) and then attacks prey. Says no steel traps used by Venezuelans, but by poaching Colombians. They're spotted in Guatopo. Says no mision parks by Venezuelan colonos, but some by Colombians. Another tiger area near Coral Viejo, NE of San Fernando, near an Inst. Agrario station. || Also tigers in swampy zone to W. of San Fernando called Sangro de Chaguaramal. Many waterfowl. Also pigs at Cano Ruede, W. of San Fernando. || Article in La Religion, 6 Man., said 80 nations including 17 Latin American signed convention of endangered species prohibiting most commercial transport across frontier. || Various papers reported many fires in savannahs and woods, in Portuguesa, Cojedes, Sucre, others, & 200 ha. on Rio El Avila near caracas. Other articles deplared burning & cutting, largely because affects watershed & water supply (now shut). Peanuts - big crop (in Lago Valencia?) on El Fango Tigre & Motem (spp?) - 13 mill. kgs. - for oil. 8 March 1973. Thurs. Luis Credara arrived 0830 & drove us to office of Instituto N.P., 150 km. from Caracas via Santa Teresa, all paved road (2 hrs.). It was only 1½ hrs. late. Park 42,600 ha., estimated 1458. Credara has been there 9 years. He said only 3 men on park staff. /Loved food than Minas to three hills of mosquitoes + other insects, fairly dry, w. few larger trees. Lower forests largely small round