that's where billionaire tom kaplan, the co-founder of panthera, the outfit trying to save jaguars, comesng up ranches and telling the ranchers-- his employees now-- to lay off the jaguars. to make sure they understand that there's been a change of ownership, he's introduced a new branding iron-- the paw print of a jaguar. he's also winning them over the old fashioned way-- improving their lives, building schools and clinics. >> tom kaplan: there is no better way to stop poaching than to make the local community say, "hey, wait a minute, our children have medicine and education because of the jaguar." when you show that, you've won their hearts and you've won their minds, and then you've won the war. >> simon: alan rabinowitz wants the jaguars to be able to roam freely again, so he's working with governments, as well as ranchers, to protect what he calls jaguar corridors. they connect the different isolated areas where the cats are still thriving. he gets to these areas sometimes, and sometimes he gets too close. now, how far away are you from him? >> rabinowitz: i would say about 20 feet

tom rosenstiel, "blur: how to know what's true in the age of information overload." >> you are watching booktv on c-span 2. here's her primetime lineup for tonight: >> robert kaplan sommer writer for the magazine and senior fellow talks about the geopolitical importance of the indian ocean reason and it spell u--l t--l u.s. security and power in the 21st century. he presents his book the u.s. naval war college and rhode island. the program is a little over an hour. [applause] >> is a great pleasure to be back again at the naval war college, where he had so many friends and where i am so honored to speak. i'm going to talk tonight about a part of the world that should be a central focus of the united states, but still isn't yet. but as is often the case, an element of the u.s. military are ahead of the curve as to where the trend of current events are added. let me start with two things. we're all prisoners of the mercator projection, americans that is. the mercator projection is the world unfolded on a flat rectangle that shows north america and south america in the center, with the indian and pacific oceans confined to the edges and therefore to the edges of con