section_path: Successful de-extinctions/Rastreador Brasileiro
section_name: Rastreador Brasileiro
paragraph_text: Rastreador Brasileiro
  
  The Rastreador Brasileiro (Brazilian Tracker) is a large scent hound from Brazil that was bred in the 1950s to hunt jaguars and wild pigs. It was originally declared extinct and delisted by the Fédération Cynologique Internationale and Confederação Brasileira de Cinofilia in 1973 due to tick-borne diseases and subsequent poisoning from insecticides in attempt to get rid of the ectoparasites. In the early 2000s, a group named Grupo de Apoio ao Resgate do Rastreador Brasileiro (Brazilian Tracker Rescue Support Group) dedicated to reviving the breed and having it relisted by Confederação Brasileira de Cinofilia began work to locate dogs in Brazil that had genetics of the extinct breed to breed a purebred Rastreador Brasileiro. In 2013, the breed was de-extinct through preservation breeding from descendants of the final original members and was relisted by the FCI.