In late April, the Chaco provincial legislature approved a law that allows the clearing of hundreds of thousands of acres of native forest. Credit: Periodistas por el Planeta/Abogados Ambientalistas ...

Scientists from the Jaguar Project, a conservation program for the species that has been working in the Argentine Gran Chaco for a few years, identified El Tipo as M7, since it was the seventh ...

The Gran Chaco was hit by rising deforestation in 2024, damaging the dry forest ecosystem that spans approximately 65 million hectares (160 million acres) — an area more than one and a half ...

Two-thirds of the Gran Chaco, which spreads across 650,000 square kilometers (251,000 square miles), are in northern Argentina, where just 10 jaguars remain — all of them male.

The province of Chaco is part of the American Gran Chaco, the largest forested region in South America after the Amazon and spans between Argentina, Paraguay, Bolivia and Brazil.

Snakes are distributed in the Chaco in accordance with adaptations to environment, study shows The Banded pampas snake, Phimophis vittatus, lives in the dry part of the Paraguayan Chaco.