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 ...

The Gran Chaco harbors over 3.400 species of plants and approximately 500 species of birds, 150 mammals, 120 reptiles, and over 100 species of amphibians, many of which are endangered.

Argentina’s Gran Chaco forest accounts for less than 10% of the soy produced in the country, but is where about 95% of soy-related deforestation occurs.

Cattle rest on a bare plot of land near Las Lomitas, in Formosa, Argentina April 18, 2023. REUTERS/Agustin Marcarian. The Gran Chaco, bordered by the Andes mountains to the west and the Parana and ...

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.

The Gran Chaco indigenous forest that spans one million square kilometers ... in Argentina's northeast, some 1,100-kilometers (685 miles) from Buenos Aires, is the country's agriculture frontier.

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 ...

The Gran Chaco Forest is Latin America’s second largest ecosystem. It is a mix of hot and arid scrublands, forests and wetlands, part of the River Plata basin, so large it extends into Paraguay ...

Living in the Gran Chaco. According to the most recent reports, more than eight million people live in the Gran Chaco. Almost 300 thousand of them are in Bolivia. Among this population, there are at ...

The Gran Chaco indigenous forest that spans one million square kilometers ... in Argentina's northeast, some 1,100-kilometers (685 miles) from Buenos Aires, is the country's agriculture frontier.