So-called “environmentally friendly” charcoal is subsidizing the destruction of the Gran Chaco, which spans from Bolivia and Brazil to Paraguay and Argentina. As in the Amazon to the north, cattle ...
A new Catholic Church network has been organizing in South America to address social and environmental challenges in the Gran Chaco zone, a mostly arid region spanning parts of Paraguay, Bolivia, ...
A study focusing on two prominent tree species in the Brazilian portion of the Gran Chaco biome found that degradation by industrial agribusiness, particularly soy growers, has put the biome’s genetic ...
Farmers in Argentina are using increasing amounts of herbicides and other agrochemicals to boost their crop yields. In the country’s Gran Chaco region, the unregulated use of agrochemicals has had ...
The area has a large concentration of jaguars (Panthera Onca) and other endangered species. This project, known as Chaco Vivo, aims to safeguard the biodiversity of the Gran Chaco and to develop ...
In northern Argentina, lush, green spaces of forest give way to wide, open clearings. In aerial photos, the contrast couldn’t be starker: treetops with varying tones of green, and next to them, ...
Jaguar populations in South America's Gran Chaco region are bouncing back, thanks to conservationists in Argentina who are restoring them. The conservationists, Mongabay reported, are collaring and ...
Recently I visited El Impenetrable National Park in Northeast Argentina, a 500-square-mile expanse of rugged dry forest that's roughly the size of Los Angeles, Calif. El Impenetrable is part of the ...
BUENOS AIRES, July 5 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - It's a familiar story: A vast forest in South America loses huge swathes of trees each year, threatening the communities living there, destroying ...
Droughts, wildfires, flooding, and deforestation are just some of the environmental pressures plaguing Bolivia’s Gran Chaco region. Yet, according to those affected by these realities on the ground, ...
Where Bolivia, Paraguay and Argentina join on the map of South America lies the Gran Chaco, a steaming, insect-swarming triangle 600 miles by 300 between the Paraguay and Pilcomayo rivers. British ...
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