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Forest-bulldozing ranchers win 'Greenwashing Award' for claiming they are creating a 'nature reserve' Jeremy Hance mongabay.com January 20, 2010 The cattle company, Yaguarete, owns 78,549 hectares within the UNESCO Chaco Biosphere Reserve in Paraguay. However the land is the traditional home of the Ayoreo-Totobiegosode tribe, which has been struggling since 1993 to gain rights to their land. Recently, in response to satellite images revealing that Yaguarete has bulldozed thousands of hectares of land for cattle ranching, the company stated that it intends to create a 'nature reserve', according to Survival International.
According to Paraguay's Environment Ministry this reserve will cover less than a quarter of the company's land (16,784 hectares) with the rest open to conversion. The Ayoreo-Totobiegosode tribe contends that any nature reserve steps on their rights as the traditional land holders under Paraguayan and international law. "This is textbook 'greenwashing': bulldoze the forest and then 'preserve' a bit of it for PR purposes. The public won’t fall for it. Yaguarete should stop playing games and pull out of the Totobiegosode’s territory once and for all," said Corry. Another bit of greenwashing: Yaguarete is Spanish for jaguar, an animal still surviving in the Chaco Biosphere Reserve, but threatened mostly by deforestation. Related articles
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