Resumen:
Current status of the jaguar population (Panthera onca) in the Americas represents less than 20%; it is a species listed in danger of extinction in Mexico since 1987, preserve it is imperative as a part of the ecosystem. Its original range of distribution included the south of the United States in Arizona, New Mexico, and southeast Texas; however, due to human activities and the devastation of its habitat, jaguar population has been reduced until its disappearance in that territory. Currently, jaguar lives in northern Mexico in the Sierra Madre Occidental and the Sierra Madre Oriental. In the Sierra Madre Oriental, records of the jaguar inhabiting have been reported in the states of Querétaro, Tamaulipas and Nuevo León. Nevertheless, the numbers of free-living specimens continue decreasing, educational and governmental institutions have focused their efforts on finding an efficient way to preserve this specimen. The purpose of this work was to analyse the use of assisted-reproduction techniques, implemented in wild and domestic felines, as a suitable tool for the jaguar conservation, as a result of this investigation, it is coherent to affirm that assisted reproduction techniques represent an opportunity for the preservation of this species.