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 ...

Roughly 20% of Gran Chaco's forest, the equivalent of an area the size of New York state, has been converted into farmland or grazing land since 1985, according to Landsat satellite pictures from ...

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.

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, ...

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 ...

The Gran Chaco, bordered by the Andes mountains to the west and the Parana and Paraguay rivers to the east, is a region twice the size of California. Wednesday, Jun 18, 2025 New Delhi o C ...

When the Bolivian media covers climate change in the Gran Chaco region, it seems that everything is presented as natural catastrophe. However, young Indigenous peoples in the region want the media to ...