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 ...

An arid region of open forests and grasslands spanning three countries and more than a quarter of a million square miles, this is Gran Chaco. It’s the second-largest forest in South America after the ...

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 ...

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, ...

Major banks and financial institutions including BlackRock, BNP Paribas, HSBC and Santander continue to hold substantial shares in – or provide financial services to – beef companies linked to illegal ...

With the goal of promoting digital skills through access to technology and women’s participation in this field, Microsoft is collaborating with NANUM, mujeres conectadas a tri-country project that ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. The Gran Chaco is South America’s second-largest forest biome, and is home to thousands of species. The Chaco has lost around 20 percent of its ...

The Gran Chaco indigenous forest that spans one million square kilometers (386,000 square miles) across Argentina, Paraguay and Bolivia is at the mercy of ravenous soybean and sunflower crops, as well ...

THE regions traversed by Mrs. Mulhall have always had a great fascination for the traveller, and though a good deal has been done of late years towards obtaining an exact knowledge of these remote ...

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 ...