The jaguar is considered endangered in Argentina, but in the Gran Chaco, one of four areas in the country where the species still survives, it’s listed as critically endangered.

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 ...

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. Soy is one of several commodities that ...

The Chaco Vivo project consists of almost 200,000 hectares of continuous Chaco forest, which means the project is six times larger than any previous or current REDD+ initiative in the country.

Paraguay wants the Chaco because the district is larger than the rest of their country and its jungles contain great growths of the quebracho tree, whose bark yields 30% tannin.

A complaint lodged with the government alleges that Argentine provincial officials and businessmen are profiting from clearing the native forest.

Satellite records expose fire driving Gran Chaco transformation by European Space Agency edited by Lisa Lock, reviewed by Andrew Zinin Editors' notes ...

The Gran Chaco is facing growing pressure as large-scale farms producing soy and cattle expand to meet global food demand.

Dwarfed by its more prestigious sibling, the Amazon, South America's second largest forest is a little-known victim of 25 years of gradual invasion by agriculture.

Connectivity and access to technology allow the Gran Chaco communities to organize, communicate and react in a more timely manner to climatic emergencies.