WAR OF THE JUNGLEDramatic moment a jaguar and a caiman fight to death captured in incredible pics

Around 30 years ago, the caimans faced an even bigger threat due to a lucrative market for crocodile leather.

“Nobody can say for sure how many yacares were slaughtered, but it would have run well into the millions,” Cleber Alho, a Brazilian conservation biologist, told National Geographic.

Capturing such a wildlife death match between the two jungle beasts, was a real feat for the photographer
 
The caimans were nearly hunted to extinction due to the crocodile leather market until a worldwide ban on the trade

After Brazil's government cracked down on poaching and following a 1992 global ban on trading crocodile skins, the creatures flourished.

Now as many as 10 million live in the wetlands.