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					<title>A giant anteater’s return in Argentina offers a case for letting nature restore itself</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/09/a-giant-anteaters-return-in-argentina-offers-a-case-for-letting-nature-restore-itself/</link>
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					<pubDate>17 Sep 2026 09:55:38 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Sean Mowbray]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Alexandra Popescu]]>
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							<![CDATA[Argentina, Chaco, Latin America, and South America]]>
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							<![CDATA[Agriculture, Animals, Conservation Solutions, Forest Regeneration, Habitat Degradation, Habitat Loss, Industrial Agriculture, Restoration, Saving Species From Extinction, Solutions, Threatened species, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[In 2025, a giant anteater returned to the Alma Guaraní reserve in Argentina’s Corrientes province. It marked the first sighting of this vulnerable and emblematic mammal in the region since 1986. That return is believed to be the result of restoration work that began in the reserve in 2021, according to a paper published in [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[In 2025, a giant anteater returned to the Alma Guaraní reserve in Argentina’s Corrientes province. It marked the first sighting of this vulnerable and emblematic mammal in the region since 1986. That return is believed to be the result of restoration work that began in the reserve in 2021, according to a paper published in Restoration Ecology, which makes the case that passive restoration in particular may have triggered the species’ return to the area. “It was the first register of the giant anteater in 40 years in Corrientes province, and it was spontaneous,” said co-author Rosario Montiel, from the National University of the Northeast and CEO of climate and environmental startup RestoreData. “We think that in this area, in this reserve, this animal has found food and all its needs to settle there.” It’s not known where the giant anteater came from. Montiel and colleagues suggest the individual, thought to be a male, may have crossed over from neighboring Chaco province, swimming across the nearby Parana River when water levels hit a historical low in 2024. Giant anteaters (Myrmecophaga tridactyla) are classified as vulnerable on the IUCN Red List. Habitat loss is a major threat, driven primarily by the expansion of agriculture and livestock ranching, and is behind much of the species’ decline across Argentina and the wider Gran Chaco region. Infrastructure development, such as increasing road networks, and hunting are also significant threats. Anteaters are caught for the pet trade and accidentally killed by hunters’ dogs. These pressures still&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2026/09/a-giant-anteaters-return-in-argentina-offers-a-case-for-letting-nature-restore-itself/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-329627</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Michael Painter put Indigenous land rights at the center of conservation</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/09/michael-painter-put-indigenous-land-rights-at-the-center-of-conservation/</link>
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					<pubDate>02 Sep 2026 22:12:56 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Rhett Ayers Butler]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Rhett Butler]]>
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							<![CDATA[Founder's briefs]]>
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							<![CDATA[Bolivia, Chaco, Latin America, and South America]]>
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							<![CDATA[Community-based Conservation, Conservation, Dry Forests, Ethics, Forests, Indigenous Rights, Land Rights, Obituary, and Protected Areas]]>
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							<![CDATA[In the Bolivian Chaco, the Isoceño Guaraní did not need conservationists to tell them that their land was under pressure. Agricultural settlement was pushing into the region, and their organization, the Capitanía de Alto y Bajo Izozog (CABI), had its own territorial aims. What outsiders could provide was scientific expertise, legal support, money, and access [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[In the Bolivian Chaco, the Isoceño Guaraní did not need conservationists to tell them that their land was under pressure. Agricultural settlement was pushing into the region, and their organization, the Capitanía de Alto y Bajo Izozog (CABI), had its own territorial aims. What outsiders could provide was scientific expertise, legal support, money, and access to institutions that could help turn those claims into recognized rights. Working with the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), CABI developed the proposal for Kaa-Iya del Gran Chaco National Park, which Bolivia created in 1995. At 3.4 million hectares, it was enormous even by the standards of South American protected areas. CABI became its co-administrator. The partnership also helped develop a mechanism for securing Indigenous land under Bolivia’s agrarian reform law. It was used to title 273,000 hectares for the Ayoreode and 560,000 hectares for the Isoceño Guaraní, as well as land for 43 Chiquitano communities. WCS says the process helped establish precedents for Indigenous land titling elsewhere in Bolivia. Michael Painter arrived at WCS in 1997 to direct the Kaa-Iya project. For an ecological anthropologist, its implications were hard to miss. Conservation did not have to mean setting land aside and then persuading the people living around it to cooperate. Indigenous organizations could be conservation partners in their own right, with territorial goals, political interests, and knowledge of their own. A useful role for an organization such as WCS was sometimes to strengthen their ability to deal with governments, companies, donors, and conservationists themselves. Painter,&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2026/09/michael-painter-put-indigenous-land-rights-at-the-center-of-conservation/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-328252</doi>				</item>
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					<title>European Commission linked leather to deforestation, then ignored it</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/05/european-commission-linked-leather-to-deforestation-then-ignored-it/</link>
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					<pubDate>28 May 2026 01:00:17 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Elisângela MendonçaEmmanuelle Picaud]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Andy Lehren]]>
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							<![CDATA[Brazil, Chaco, European Union, Latin America, and South America]]>
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							<![CDATA[Business, Conservation, Deforestation, Environment, Forests, Governance, International Trade, leather, Mongabay investigation, Supply Chain, Trade, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[The clock is ticking in Brussels. By June 1, the European Commission, the bloc’s executive body, is set to receive feedback on its proposal to remove leather, hides and skins from the EU’s Deforestation Regulation (EUDR). Officials, however, are trying to push this amendment even after the commission’s own research confirmed that cattle hides also [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[The clock is ticking in Brussels. By June 1, the European Commission, the bloc’s executive body, is set to receive feedback on its proposal to remove leather, hides and skins from the EU’s Deforestation Regulation (EUDR). Officials, however, are trying to push this amendment even after the commission’s own research confirmed that cattle hides also drive forest loss, a Mongabay analysis shows. According to the commission’s Staff Working Document, research designed to support proposed regulations, leather can be associated with up to 390 square kilometers (149 square miles) of deforestation per year. That area is roughly twice the size of the city of Pisa, in the heart of Italy’s leather production and trade. This means that bovine hides could account for up to 17% of the total 2,280 km2 (880 mi2) deforestation risk linked to all commodities covered by the new regulation. Although the evidence is part of the documentation, the commission decided to ignore it and balance out “quantitative and qualitative considerations,” it said in the document. The commission&#8217;s Staff Working Document was published May 4, alongside a delegated act, as part of a proposed simplification package Brussels is putting forward ahead of the EUDR being enacted at the end of the year. After the public consultation, the commission could formally adopt the draft delegated act. Then the European Parliament and the Council of the European Union generally have two months to object. If they don’t, the changes will automatically be enacted. In its working documentation, the commission argues&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2026/05/european-commission-linked-leather-to-deforestation-then-ignored-it/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-320201</doi>				</item>
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					<title>EU moves to drop leather from deforestation law after industry lobbying</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/05/eu-moves-to-drop-leather-from-deforestation-law-after-industry-lobbying/</link>
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					<pubDate>05 May 2026 01:57:09 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Elisângela Mendonça]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Andy Lehren]]>
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							<![CDATA[Brazil, Chaco, European Union, Latin America, and South America]]>
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							<![CDATA[Business, Conservation, Deforestation, Environment, Forests, Governance, International Trade, leather, Mongabay investigation, Supply Chain, Trade, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[The leather industry spent most of the last year intensifying an already determined lobbying campaign in Brussels to win an exemption from the European Union’s Deforestation Regulation, or EUDR. The effort is paying off: on May 4, the European Commission, the EU’s executive body, formally proposed excluding leather, hides, and skins from the regulation’s product [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[The leather industry spent most of the last year intensifying an already determined lobbying campaign in Brussels to win an exemption from the European Union’s Deforestation Regulation, or EUDR. The effort is paying off: on May 4, the European Commission, the EU’s executive body, formally proposed excluding leather, hides, and skins from the regulation’s product scope, ahead of the law being enacted at the end of the year. The Commission’s proposal is being introduced through a delegated act, a legal mechanism that allows the EU executive to amend non-essential parts of an existing law without reopening the whole regulation for a full legislative debate. This process is set to change the EUDR’s Annex I, which lists the commodities covered by the deforestation regulation. Legal experts, including Brussels-based Mayer Brown senior associate Irina Antoshevska, have previously identified this delegated act review as a critical opening for industries seeking to add or remove Combined Nomenclature (CN) customs codes from the regulation’s scope. Following the publication of the draft, citizens and other stakeholders can provide feedback until June 1, the Commission said in a statement. After that, the Commission could formally adopt the act. Then, the parliament and the Council of the European Union generally have two months to object. If they don’t, the changes will automatically be enacted. The leather exemption is part of a broader “simplification review” announced by the European Commission to ease administrative burdens linked to the EUDR. Behind the scenes, however, leather industry groups have seized on the&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2026/05/eu-moves-to-drop-leather-from-deforestation-law-after-industry-lobbying/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-318700</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Uncontacted Ayoreo could face health risks as Gran Chaco shrinks, experts warn</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2025/03/uncontacted-ayoreo-could-face-health-risks-as-gran-chaco-shrinks-experts-warn/</link>
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					<pubDate>21 Mar 2025 18:32:28 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Maxwell Radwin]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Alexandra Popescu]]>
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							<![CDATA[Bolivia, Chaco, Latin America, Paraguay, and South America]]>
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							<![CDATA[Agriculture, Cattle, Conservation, Deforestation, Environment, Environmental Law, Forest Destruction, Forests, Governance, Indigenous Peoples, Industrial Agriculture, Infrastructure, Land Conflict, Land Rights, Mining, Politics, Protected Areas, Rainforest Destruction, Rainforests, Ranching, Threats To Rainforests, and Tropical Forests]]>
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							<![CDATA[Deforestation in Paraguay’s Gran Chaco, driven largely by agribusiness and infrastructure development, poses an increasing threat to the Indigenous Ayoreo people. The communities, living in isolation, risk losing their ancestral lands and customs, and could be exposed to deadly diseases from the outside world, experts warn. Now a global coalition of Indigenous rights advocates is [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Deforestation in Paraguay’s Gran Chaco, driven largely by agribusiness and infrastructure development, poses an increasing threat to the Indigenous Ayoreo people. The communities, living in isolation, risk losing their ancestral lands and customs, and could be exposed to deadly diseases from the outside world, experts warn. Now a global coalition of Indigenous rights advocates is trying to sound the alarm on the problem, in hopes that the Paraguayan government and international community will respond with more ambitious solutions. In February, the International Working Group for the Protection of Indigenous Peoples in Isolation and Initial Contact (GTI-PIACI) visited northern Paraguay to better understand the threats against the Ayoreo communities, some of whom still live in isolation, without contact with the outside world. The visit was even more concerning than expected, members told Mongabay. “At any moment, our Ayoreo brothers and sisters in isolation are going to come out,” said Rocío Picaneré, a representative of the Ayoreo Native Council of Eastern Bolivia, which works with GTI-PIACI. “And why is this happening? Because we treat the forest like a supermarket, and the forest is being cleared every day.” GTI-PIACI is made up of 21 Indigenous organizations and civil society groups focused on addressing the threats against uncontacted peoples living in the Amazon Rainforest, Brazilian Cerrado and Gran Chaco, a dry forest ecosystem that covers approximately 65 million hectares (160 million acres) across Argentina, Paraguay, Brazil and Bolivia. It’s the second-largest forest in South America, after the Amazon, and has suffered some of the&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2025/03/uncontacted-ayoreo-could-face-health-risks-as-gran-chaco-shrinks-experts-warn/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-296288</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Deforestation boom in Gran Chaco raises alarm over Argentina’s forest law</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2025/02/deforestation-boom-in-gran-chaco-raises-alarm-over-argentinas-forest-law/</link>
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					<pubDate>14 Feb 2025 18:18:41 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Maxwell Radwin]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Alexandra Popescu]]>
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							<![CDATA[Argentina, Chaco, Latin America, and South America]]>
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							<![CDATA[Agriculture, Biodiversity, Cattle, Climate Change, Conservation, Deforestation, Environment, Environmental Law, Fires, Forest Destruction, Forest Loss, Forests, Governance, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Logging, Politics, and Ranching]]>
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							<![CDATA[One of South America’s largest ecosystems saw an increase in deforestation last year, with agriculture, livestock and fires contributing the most to the destruction of native dry forests. The problem has led some conservation groups to speak out about weak environmental regulations that allow land-use change to go unpunished. The Gran Chaco was hit by [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[One of South America’s largest ecosystems saw an increase in deforestation last year, with agriculture, livestock and fires contributing the most to the destruction of native dry forests. The problem has led some conservation groups to speak out about weak environmental regulations that allow land-use change to go unpunished. 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 times the size of California — across Argentina, Paraguay, Bolivia and Brazil. Conservation groups in Argentina, which has the biggest share of the Gran Chaco, are calling for stricter penalties to prevent additional habitat loss. “More deforestation means more climate change, floods, desertification, evictions of rural residents and Indigenous communities, disappearance of species in danger of extinction and diseases,” said Hernán Giardini, coordinator of Greenpeace’s forests campaign. “Faced with this alarming situation, we believe that both clearing and forest fires must urgently be prohibited and penalized.” In 2024, Argentina lost 149,649 hectares (369,791 acres) of its approximately 52.6 million hectares (130 million acres) of Gran Chaco forest — most of it from agriculture and fires, according to a Greenpeace report. The provinces with the most forest loss were Santiago del Estero, Chaco, Formosa and Salta. It was a slight increase from the previous year, which saw 134,700 hectares (332,851 acres) of forest loss. Out of all of last year’s forest loss, 29,763 hectares (7,3546 acres), or a fifth,&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2025/02/deforestation-boom-in-gran-chaco-raises-alarm-over-argentinas-forest-law/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-294505</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Cargill widens its deforestation-free goals, but critics say it’s not enough</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2023/11/cargill-widens-its-deforestation-free-goals-but-critics-say-its-not-enough/</link>
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					<pubDate>29 Nov 2023 15:47:49 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Maxwell Radwin]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Alexandra Popescu]]>
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							<![CDATA[Amazon, Argentina, Brazil, Cerrado, Chaco, Latin America, South America, and Uruguay]]>
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							<![CDATA[Agriculture, Climate Change, Conservation, Corn, Deforestation, Environment, Forest Destruction, Forests, Industrial Agriculture, International Trade, Land Conflict, Politics, Rainforest Destruction, Rainforests, Soy, Supply Chain, Threats To Rainforests, Tropical Deforestation, and Tropical Forests]]>
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							<![CDATA[Global food trader Cargill has announced new commitments to disentangle some of its most controversial agricultural products from deforestation in several South American countries. But some conservation groups say the commitments still might not be ambitious enough to meet global climate goals. Cargill announced its supply chains for soy, corn, wheat and cotton from Brazil, [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Global food trader Cargill has announced new commitments to disentangle some of its most controversial agricultural products from deforestation in several South American countries. But some conservation groups say the commitments still might not be ambitious enough to meet global climate goals. Cargill announced its supply chains for soy, corn, wheat and cotton from Brazil, Uruguay and Argentina will be free of deforestation and land conversion by 2025. For some areas, that moves up the commitment dates by five years. “At Cargill, we are actively shaping a future where critical ecosystems will be protected for generations to come,” Cargill chief sustainability officer Pilar Cruz said in a statement. “Accelerating our commitment is a testament to our resolve to make real, tangible progress against deforestation and land conversion, in line with our climate action plan, while also supporting the livelihoods of farmers and agricultural communities that are vital to feeding the world.” Cargill monitors its supply chains with forest mapping data and information gathered from local suppliers. The goal is to purchase agricultural commodities from direct and indirect suppliers that haven’t been planted on land cleared of primary forests and other important biomes. Agriculture is one of the top drivers of deforestation globally and there’s increasing pressure on the private sector to step up supply chain monitoring to combat climate change. Previously, Cargill had committed to removing deforestation and land conversion across South America by 2030. Only specific biomes like the Amazon, Cerrado and Gran Chaco had an earlier target date&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2023/11/cargill-widens-its-deforestation-free-goals-but-critics-say-its-not-enough/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-276029</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Can the EU’s deforestation law save Argentina’s Gran Chaco from soy?</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2023/06/can-the-eus-deforestation-law-save-argentinas-gran-chaco-from-soy/</link>
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					<pubDate>06 Jun 2023 17:35:32 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Kimberley Brown]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Latoya Abulu]]>
					</author>
							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Conservation Potential]]>
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							<![CDATA[Argentina, Chaco, Latin America, and South America]]>
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							<![CDATA[Agriculture, Business, Controversial, Deforestation, Drivers Of Deforestation, Environment, Environmental Law, Food Industry, Forests, Green, Indigenous Peoples, Indigenous Rights, Industrial Agriculture, International Trade, Land Conflict, Land Rights, Land Use Change, Law, Soy, Trade, and Tropical Deforestation]]>
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							<![CDATA[Large-scale soy production for European markets has long been associated with deforestation in South America’s forests, including in the continent’s second-largest, but lesser-known, forest, the Gran Chaco in Argentina and Paraguay. A new historic deforestation legislation by the European Union is trying to bring an end to the destruction, by prohibiting the import of products [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Large-scale soy production for European markets has long been associated with deforestation in South America’s forests, including in the continent’s second-largest, but lesser-known, forest, the Gran Chaco in Argentina and Paraguay. A new historic deforestation legislation by the European Union is trying to bring an end to the destruction, by prohibiting the import of products found linked to deforestation abroad, including soy. The new EU regulations were met with scorn by several industries globally that will have to drastically change their production practices. Soy is a commodity that’s economically vital for many nations, including Argentina, which is seeking to expand its soy exports to meet global food demand and tackle an ongoing economic crisis. The South American nation’s soy sector says it’s ready for the regulations — though the changes will be a massive challenge for the industry. For a few years now, the industry has been working on a centralized online platform to trace and track soy production, in response to external demands for more transparency, like the new EU regulations. This system is known as the Sectorial Vision of the Argentine Gran Chaco, or ViSeC by its Spanish acronym, and was established by, among others, CIARA, the business association for the oilseeds and grains industries. “The whole Argentine market will have to mutate to a more integrated market in terms of information management,” said Lucas Larraquy, purchasing manager with the Argentine Federated Farmers (AFA), told Mongabay via video call. “Operationally, no, I can&#8217;t say it&#8217;s going to be&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2023/06/can-the-eus-deforestation-law-save-argentinas-gran-chaco-from-soy/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>EU’s anti-deforestation bill leaves out critical ecosystems, study shows</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2022/06/eus-anti-deforestation-bill-leaves-out-critical-ecosystems-study-shows/</link>
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					<pubDate>21 Jun 2022 10:00:49 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Sarah Sax]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Alexandra Popescu]]>
					</author>
							<category><![CDATA[global forests]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Global Commodities]]>
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											<locations>
							<![CDATA[Cerrado, Chaco, and South America]]>
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							<![CDATA[Agriculture, Deforestation, Drivers Of Deforestation, Ecosystems, Forests, and Indigenous Rights]]>
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							<![CDATA[On May 11 this year,  dozens of activists with Greenpeace Netherland blocked a ship carrying 60,000 metric tons of soy from Brazil to the Netherlands. Among the protesters was Alberto Terena, a leader of the Indigenous Terena People’s Council in the state of Mato Grosso do Sul. The Terena live on the border between Brazil [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[On May 11 this year,  dozens of activists with Greenpeace Netherland blocked a ship carrying 60,000 metric tons of soy from Brazil to the Netherlands. Among the protesters was Alberto Terena, a leader of the Indigenous Terena People’s Council in the state of Mato Grosso do Sul. The Terena live on the border between Brazil and Paraguay, where the Gran Chaco, South America’s second-largest forest, and the Cerrado, the world&#8217;s most species-rich savanna, meet. “Europe shares responsibility for the destruction of our homes,” Alberto Terena said in a statement. “We call on ministers to seize this opportunity, not only to ensure Indigenous people’s rights, but also for the future of the planet. The production of feed for your industrial animals and the beef that is imported should no longer mean our suffering.” What’s in a word As the world’s third-largest importer of agricultural commodities linked to tropical deforestation and climate change, such as soy, beef and palm oil, the EU has recognized its outsized environmental footprint abroad. The bloc has been taking steps to tackle that, in line with its Paris Agreement and European Green Deal commitments, including last November, when it proposed new legislation to restrict imports of commodities linked to deforestation. Greenpeace’s protest centered around the idea that the EU’s current draft regulation is much too weak and won’t protect some of the biomes most affected by the rapid expansion of soy farming and cattle ranching, like the Cerrado and Chaco. Soy and Chaco forest in Bolivia. Photo&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2022/06/eus-anti-deforestation-bill-leaves-out-critical-ecosystems-study-shows/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>A helping hand for red-footed tortoises making a comeback in Argentina</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2022/05/a-helping-hand-for-red-footed-tortoises-making-a-comeback-in-argentina/</link>
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					<pubDate>30 May 2022 13:14:33 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Elizabeth Claire Alberts]]>
						</dc:creator>
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						<![CDATA[Elizabethalberts]]>
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							<![CDATA[Argentina, Chaco, and South America]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animals, Conservation, Conservation Technology, Ecology, Forest Regeneration, Pet Trade, Rehabilitation, Reintroductions, Reptiles, Rewilding, Saving Species From Extinction, Solutions, Species, Tracking, Wildlife, Wildlife Rehabilitation, Wildlife Rescues, Wildlife Trade, Wildlife Trafficking, and Wildtech]]>
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							<![CDATA[Red-footed tortoises are so rarely seen in the Gran Chaco region of Argentina that they’re considered to be locally extinct. But now, the species is plodding its way toward a comeback. On May 19, conservationists working with Rewilding Argentina and partner organizations released 10 red-footed tortoises (Chelonoidis carbonarius) into El Impenetrable National Park in Chaco [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Red-footed tortoises are so rarely seen in the Gran Chaco region of Argentina that they’re considered to be locally extinct. But now, the species is plodding its way toward a comeback. On May 19, conservationists working with Rewilding Argentina and partner organizations released 10 red-footed tortoises (Chelonoidis carbonarius) into El Impenetrable National Park in Chaco province, a 130,000-hectare (321,000-acre) park in northern Argentina, close to the Paraguay border. In the coming months, the team plans to release another 30 tortoises. Since the establishment of El Impenetrable National Park in 2014, the park has been the site of several rewilding projects, including the reintroduction of jaguars (Panthera onca) and marsh deer (Blastocerus dichotomus). But this is the first time Rewilding Argentina has worked with reptiles, said Sebastián Di Martino, the conservation director of the organization. “It&#8217;s very important to bring this species back to the country,” Di Martino told Mongabay. “We expect that the species will start to fulfill their ecological role [as] a seed disperser, which will be very good for the forest. And, of course, [we hope] that they become a part of this new economy that we are trying to build in this region.” Red-footed tortoises have been under pressure from an illegal pet trade that’s booming in Paraguay and Bolivia, Di Martino said. Additional threats include habitat destruction and targeted hunting for meat consumption. Conservationists have already released 10 red-footed tortoises (Chelonoidis carbonarius) into El Impenetrable National Park, and they plan to release another 30 tortoises in&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2022/05/a-helping-hand-for-red-footed-tortoises-making-a-comeback-in-argentina/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-256454</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Report: Luxury carmakers still sourcing deforestation-linked leather from Paraguay</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2021/10/report-luxury-carmakers-still-sourcing-deforestation-linked-leather-from-paraguay/</link>
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					<pubDate>21 Oct 2021 15:54:26 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Laurel Sutherland]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Laurelsutherland]]>
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							<![CDATA[Chaco, Latin America, Paraguay, and South America]]>
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							<![CDATA[Business, Cattle, Conservation, Deforestation, Drivers Of Deforestation, Environment, Environmental Law, Forests, Governance, Illegal Trade, Indigenous Reserves, Politics, Protected Areas, Ranching, and Trade]]>
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							<![CDATA[The forests of the Gran Chaco in Paraguay continue to be the target of illegal deforestation, prompting one of the world’s last uncontacted Indigenous nations to reportedly reach out to express their concern over the continued encroachment by outsiders. In September 2020, an investigation by London-based NGO Earthsight exposed the link between the illegal clearances [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[The forests of the Gran Chaco in Paraguay continue to be the target of illegal deforestation, prompting one of the world’s last uncontacted Indigenous nations to reportedly reach out to express their concern over the continued encroachment by outsiders. In September 2020, an investigation by London-based NGO Earthsight exposed the link between the illegal clearances inside PNCAT, a protected territory that’s home to the Ayoreo Totobiegosode people, for cattle ranching, and the leather used by luxury carmakers such as BMW and Jaguar Land Rover. The report revealed that two ranches within PNCAT — Caucasian SA, and a farm belonging to an associate of Cooperativa Chortitzer — were found to have illegally cleared more than 2,700 and 500 hectares respectively (6,700 and 1,200 acres) between 2018 and 2019. After the report was made public, Earthsight, along with local and international NGOs, called on Paraguayan authorities to investigate the cases of illegal deforestation at the Caucasian and Chortitzer farms, as well as whether the more than 200 fires at Caucasian in 2020 were in breach of the law. In a follow-up report released last week, “Grand Theft Chaco II: The Vice Continues,” Earthsight said Paraguayan authorities had failed to investigate the exposed illegalities, resulting in new cases of illegal deforestation in the Gran Chaco, a lowland region that covers parts of Paraguay, Argentina, Bolivia and Brazil. Cattle ranch in Gran Chaco. Image by Peer V via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0). Deforestation in Paraguay Chaco to make way for cattle ranching. Image&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2021/10/report-luxury-carmakers-still-sourcing-deforestation-linked-leather-from-paraguay/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-248413</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Paraguay whistleblowers allege illegal deforestation cover up</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2020/11/paraguay-whistleblowers-allege-illegal-deforestation-cover-up/</link>
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					<pubDate>20 Nov 2020 12:45:56 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Jack Davies]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Daniel]]>
					</author>
							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Global Commodities]]>
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											<locations>
							<![CDATA[Chaco, Latin America, Paraguay, and South America]]>
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							<![CDATA[Beef, Cattle, Deforestation, Environment, Environmental Law, Forestry, Forests, Governance, Logging, Pasture, Politics, Rainforest Destruction, Rainforests, Ranching, Threats To Rainforests, and Tropical Forests]]>
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							<![CDATA[Senior officials with Paraguay’s Environment Ministry are helping cover up illegal deforestation by the country’s cattle industry, according to damning new testimony by current and former ministry employees. A landlocked country in the heart of South America, Paraguay has experienced some of the highest rates of deforestation anywhere in the world. Over the last three [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Senior officials with Paraguay’s Environment Ministry are helping cover up illegal deforestation by the country’s cattle industry, according to damning new testimony by current and former ministry employees. A landlocked country in the heart of South America, Paraguay has experienced some of the highest rates of deforestation anywhere in the world. Over the last three decades, forests covering more than one-tenth of the country’s landmass have been cleared, driven largely by a drive to create more cattle pasture. Last month, London-based NGO Earthsight reported that major European automakers, including Jaguar Land Rover and BMW, were using leather linked to illegal deforestation in Paraguay. Paraguayan law requires ranchers to submit an environmental impact assessment (EIA) to the Environment Ministry in order to obtain a permit to clear forested land prior to felling any trees. However, the reality in many cases is that such applications are made long after the land in question has been cleared, according to whistleblowers who spoke with Earthsight. In 2011, Karen Colman joined the Environment Ministry’s Biodiversity Department, where her job was to appraise the EIAs submitted by businesses wishing to clear forests on their land. Shortly after Colman was hired, conservation NGO Guyra Paraguay released software enabling Colman and her colleagues to monitor deforestation in real-time. Checking the EIAs that passed across Colman’s desk against the software revealed that many of them were fraudulent. “We found that lots of these properties were already cleared of forest,” Colman told Earthsight. “They were illegal deforestations. The landowners were&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2020/11/paraguay-whistleblowers-allege-illegal-deforestation-cover-up/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-237049</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Automakers fuelling deforestation, dispossession in Paraguay’s Gran Chaco: report</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2020/10/automakers-fuelling-deforestation-dispossession-in-paraguays-gran-chaco-report/</link>
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					<pubDate>06 Oct 2020 08:21:27 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Mongabay.com]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Daniel]]>
					</author>
							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Global Commodities]]>
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											<locations>
							<![CDATA[Chaco, European Union, Paraguay, and South America]]>
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							<![CDATA[Biodiversity, Cattle, Deforestation, Environment, Forests, Indigenous Peoples, Indigenous Rights, Logging, Pasture, Protected Areas, Ranching, Supply Chain, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[Major European automakers including Jaguar Land Rover and BMW are using leather linked to illegal deforestation in South American forests home to one of the world’s last uncontacted tribes, according to new research. In a report by London-based NGO Earthsight released last week, titled Grand Theft Chaco, the group said undercover investigations of the automakers’ [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Major European automakers including Jaguar Land Rover and BMW are using leather linked to illegal deforestation in South American forests home to one of the world’s last uncontacted tribes, according to new research. In a report by London-based NGO Earthsight released last week, titled Grand Theft Chaco, the group said undercover investigations of the automakers’ supply chains had revealed links to illegal clearances of forest in the Chaco region of Paraguay. Earthsight said its findings were likely to be just the “very dirty tip of a much larger iceberg” as none of Europe’s 10 largest makers of leather-clad cars were able to fully identify the source of the raw materials used in their vehicles. “No car owner is going to feel comfortable in their plush leather seat knowing that the last forest refuge of an uncontacted tribe was illegally cleared to make it,” Sam Lawson, Earthsight director, said in a statement. “This simply should not be allowed to happen. And this is far from an isolated case. Europe is awash with the products of deforestation and human rights abuses. Corporations have utterly failed to do the right thing. It is high time governments made them.” The forests of the Gran Chaco, a lowland region straddling Bolivia, Paraguay, Argentina and Brazil, are home to at-risk fauna such as jaguars and giant anteaters, whose populations have been devastated by cattle ranching and soybean cultivation. Between 1987 and 2012, Paraguay destroyed almost 4.4 million hectares (16,988 square miles) of forest, mainly to expand&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2020/10/automakers-fuelling-deforestation-dispossession-in-paraguays-gran-chaco-report/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-235583</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Agrochemicals and industrial waste threaten Argentina’s Gran Chaco</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2020/08/agrochemicals-and-industrial-waste-threaten-argentinas-gran-chaco/</link>
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					<pubDate>19 Aug 2020 12:02:33 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Rodolfo Chisleanschi]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Maria Angeles Salazar]]>
					</author>
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							<![CDATA[Argentina, Chaco, and South America]]>
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							<![CDATA[Agriculture, Agrochemicals, Bees, Deforestation, Environment, Forests, National Parks, Pollution, Water, Water Pollution, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[Carolina Cendra owns a small field about 20 kilometers, or 12 miles, from the town of Napenay, in Argentina’s Chaco province. On her 10 hectares (25 acres), she grows squash, cassava, and fruit trees, also known as “service crops.” &#8220;About four years ago,” Cendra says, “I had a serious health problem: diarrhea and cramps that [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Carolina Cendra owns a small field about 20 kilometers, or 12 miles, from the town of Napenay, in Argentina’s Chaco province. On her 10 hectares (25 acres), she grows squash, cassava, and fruit trees, also known as “service crops.” &#8220;About four years ago,” Cendra says, “I had a serious health problem: diarrhea and cramps that prevented me from sleeping. The doctors couldn&#8217;t tell me what was the problem. In the end, I was hospitalized for almost a year. It was intestinal poisoning caused by the agrochemicals that the water in my house contained.” This is not an isolated event. In many other places in Argentina’s Gran Chaco eco-region, water is a scarce resource that requires ingenuity to collect during the rainy season. &#8220;We have a tank of about 3,000 liters [800 gallons] on the roof of our house,&#8221; Cendra says, &#8220;and from it, we get the water to drink, cook, shower and feed the animals.&#8221; Cendra&#8217;s farm is surrounded by large fields of soy, corn and wheat. &#8220;The aerial spraying began about four years ago. Planes were flying over my house all the time. The first effects of the pesticides were seen on the leaves of squashes as they began to die similarly to when frost damages them. Then, I started to feel bad. It was not just my intestines, all of us at home had red and itchy skin after bathing. We complained and they came to analyze the water. The water in the tank and the well was&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2020/08/agrochemicals-and-industrial-waste-threaten-argentinas-gran-chaco/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-234009</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Qaramta: Chronicle of a jaguar in love</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2020/08/qaramta-chronicle-of-a-jaguar-in-love/</link>
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					<pubDate>18 Aug 2020 09:50:00 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Rodolfo Chisleanschi]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Maria Angeles Salazar]]>
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							<![CDATA[Argentina, Chaco, and South America]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animals, Big Cats, Camera Trapping, Conservation, Jaguars, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[The growl of a female jaguar emerges from within El Impenetrable National Park. The sound breaks the morning’s quiet and can be heard several kilometers away. The scent of this most emblematic mountain animal spreads through the clean air. The male jaguar’s fine sense of smell can detect the female from a long distance, though [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[The growl of a female jaguar emerges from within El Impenetrable National Park. The sound breaks the morning’s quiet and can be heard several kilometers away. The scent of this most emblematic mountain animal spreads through the clean air. The male jaguar’s fine sense of smell can detect the female from a long distance, though this time it will not be necessary. The female knows that the recipient of her calls is not far away, while the male knows that female is ready to mate and is therefore demanding his presence. This is how wild nature reveals itself in the heart of the Argentinean Gran Chaco, except for one small detail: the female is not free. Since December 2019, she has been locked up within an enclosure especially built for her a short distance away from the Bermejo River, attracting the permanent attention of her suitor, who patiently awaits the moment to consummate their encounter. On September 14, 2019, a camera trap installed on the river bank captured the figure of a male Panthera onca, a jaguar whose tracks had been discovered a couple of weeks earlier inside the protected area. Its tracks had been followed since April by the scientific team of the Yaguareté Project, led by Dr. Verónica Quiroga, a biologist from the National Council of Scientific and Technical Research (CONICET) and the University of Córdoba. She is one of Argentina’s top scientific authorities on everything related to the species, which has been the focus of their studies&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2020/08/qaramta-chronicle-of-a-jaguar-in-love/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-233960</doi>				</item>
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					<title>In Argentina, a movement to save the Chaco forest hits the COVID-19 wall</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2020/08/in-argentina-a-movement-to-save-the-chaco-forest-hits-the-covid-19-wall/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2020/08/in-argentina-a-movement-to-save-the-chaco-forest-hits-the-covid-19-wall/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>18 Aug 2020 05:40:39 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Oscar Bermeo Ocaña]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Maria Angeles Salazar]]>
					</author>
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							<![CDATA[Argentina, Chaco, and South America]]>
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							<![CDATA[COVID-19, Deforestation, Ecosystems, Environment, Environmental Law, Forests, and Logging]]>
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							<![CDATA[Argentina lost an area of native forest 320 times the size of its capital city, Buenos Aires, between 1998 and 2018, according to a report issued July 29 by the Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development. The Chaco forest accounted for 87% of the 6.5 million hectares (16 million acres) lost, with expanding farmland the [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Argentina lost an area of native forest 320 times the size of its capital city, Buenos Aires, between 1998 and 2018, according to a report issued July 29 by the Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development. The Chaco forest accounted for 87% of the 6.5 million hectares (16 million acres) lost, with expanding farmland the main factor for deforestation in the provinces of Santiago del Estero, Salta, Chaco and Formosa that make up this region of the country. These figures represent official acknowledgement of a crisis that has been evident for a long time in the region. In October last year, 55 Argentine civil society organizations joined forces to launch the Argentine Gran Chaco 2030 Commitment. The initiative seeks to involve citizens, the government and the private sector in stopping the degradation of the Chaco, the largest forested eco-region in South America after the Amazon. A truck loaded with wood in Chaco province. The thickness of the trunks indicates these are old-growth trees, likely from primary forest. Image by Ricardo Tiddi. Each signatory to the commitment called for changing the economic model of the region that currently relies on the extractives industries. Among their demands is greater compliance with a 2007 law on native forests that regulates land use and promotes conservation but whose implementation has been criticized as being far from ideal. According to the ministry&#8217;s report, 2.8 million hectares of forest were deforested after the law’s enactment. The report notes that although the law contributed to a reduction&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2020/08/in-argentina-a-movement-to-save-the-chaco-forest-hits-the-covid-19-wall/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>New app tracks down forest fires in Bolivia</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2019/09/amazon-fires-app-bolivia-forest/</link>
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					<pubDate>30 Sep 2019 13:05:26 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[John Cannon]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[John Cannon]]>
					</author>
							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Amazon, Bolivia, Chaco, Latin America, and South America]]>
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							<![CDATA[Conservation, Conservation Technology, data, Deforestation, Dry Forests, Environment, Fires, Forestry, Forests, Illegal Logging, Logging, Rainforests, Remote Sensing, Research, Satellite Imagery, Saving Rainforests, Solutions, Technology, Threats To Rainforests, Timber, Traditional People, Tropical Forests, and Wildtech]]>
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							<![CDATA[A new app aimed at tracking forest fires in Bolivia could shake up the way authorities and firefighters battle fires, allowing them to pinpoint their locations more accurately and safely. Called “Amazon Fires — Bolivia,” the application pulls in data on the pollutant particles that get trapped in the air above a fire from a [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[A new app aimed at tracking forest fires in Bolivia could shake up the way authorities and firefighters battle fires, allowing them to pinpoint their locations more accurately and safely. Called “Amazon Fires — Bolivia,” the application pulls in data on the pollutant particles that get trapped in the air above a fire from a sensor on the European Space Agency’s Sentinel-5 satellite. By combining that “aerosol” data with recent satellite images using Google Earth Engine, app users can plot out the locations of fires in “near real time.” Researchers from the Monitoring of the Andean Amazon Project, or MAAP, which is run by the Amazon Conservation Association, created the app and published a description on Sept. 25. A recent fire in the dry forests of the Bolivian Amazon. Image courtesy of MAAP with data from Planet. Typically, authorities use differences in temperatures measured by satellites to locate fires. But ecologist Matt Finer, director of MAAP and one of the app’s developers, said this method often entails filtering through “a thousand red dots” with a lot of noise that may or may not indicate a fire that’s currently active. “At the same time, we discovered this new tool that’s just blowing our minds, which is this new [aerosol] data from the European Space Agency,” Finer said. The Sentinel-5 satellite’s Tropomi sensor uses the behavior of ultraviolet light in the atmosphere to detect the emissions of pollutants from fires, volcanic eruptions and swirling dust, helping scientists forecast possible public health problems&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2019/09/amazon-fires-app-bolivia-forest/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-222945</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Can jaguar tourism save Bolivia’s fast dwindling forests?</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2019/03/can-jaguar-tourism-save-bolivias-fast-dwindling-forests/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2019/03/can-jaguar-tourism-save-bolivias-fast-dwindling-forests/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>07 Mar 2019 13:36:35 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Rhett Ayers Butler]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Rhett Butler]]>
					</author>
							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Amazon, Bolivia, Cerrado, Chaco, Latin America, and South America]]>
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											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Agriculture, Animals, Big Cats, Camera Trapping, Carnivores, Cats, Cattle, Conservation, Conservation Solutions, Drivers Of Deforestation, Dry Forests, Ecotourism, Environment, Farming, Forests, Happy-upbeat Environmental, Human-wildlife Conflict, Jaguars, Mammals, Predators, Rainforests, Ranching, Solutions, Soy, Top Predators, Tourism, Tropical Forests, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[ÑUFLO DE CHÁVEZ, Bolivia — Few countries in the tropics have seen their trees chopped down as quickly as Bolivia did between 2001 and 2017. According to data from the University of Maryland and World Resources Institute’s Global Forest Watch, Bolivia lost 45,000 square kilometers (17,400 square miles) of tree cover, or 7 percent of [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[ÑUFLO DE CHÁVEZ, Bolivia — Few countries in the tropics have seen their trees chopped down as quickly as Bolivia did between 2001 and 2017. According to data from the University of Maryland and World Resources Institute’s Global Forest Watch, Bolivia lost 45,000 square kilometers (17,400 square miles) of tree cover, or 7 percent of its total forest cover, since the turn of the century. That represents an area larger than the state of Ohio. Within Bolivia, nearly two-thirds of that loss occurred in just a single state — Santa Cruz — as agribusiness activity, namely cattle ranching and soy farming, ramped up. As is the case in neighboring Brazil, soy and cattle are now big business in Bolivia. And in fact, Brazilians, as well as people of European and North American descent, are big players in Bolivia’s soy and cattle industries. Tree cover loss in Eastern Bolivia near San Miguelito Ranch, Santa Cruz between 2001 and 2017. Santa Cruz lost 2.92M ha of tree cover between 2001 and 2017 according to data from the University of Maryland and Global Forest Watch. This loss has greatly reduced the extent of habitat for some of Bolivia’s best-known species, including the largest land predator in the Americas, the jaguar (Panthera onca). On top of habitat loss, jaguars in Santa Cruz are both persecuted by landowners who see them as a danger to livestock, and targeted in a lucrative new trade in their parts, including teeth and bones. While trafficking in jaguar parts&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2019/03/can-jaguar-tourism-save-bolivias-fast-dwindling-forests/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-216221</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Peccary’s disappearance foreboding for other Mesoamerican wildlife</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2018/12/peccarys-disappearance-foreboding-for-other-mesoamerican-wildlife/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2018/12/peccarys-disappearance-foreboding-for-other-mesoamerican-wildlife/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>20 Dec 2018 08:19:15 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Mongabay]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[John Cannon]]>
					</author>
							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Amazon, Central America, Chaco, Latin America, and South America]]>
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							<![CDATA[Agriculture, Animals, Biodiversity, Camera Trapping, Cattle, Conservation, Deforestation, Dry Forests, Ecology, Ecosystem Engineers, Endangered Species, Environment, Extinction, Forests, Global Environmental Crisis, Habitat, Habitat Loss, Hunting, Livestock, Mammals, NGOs, Over-hunting, Poaching, Protected Areas, Rainforest Destruction, Rainforests, Ranching, Threats To Rainforests, Tropical Forests, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[The white-lipped peccary (Tayassu pecari), a hairy, pig-like mammal that once lived throughout the forests of Central and South America, now only skitters around in 13 percent of its former range, according to a report released in November 2018. More than two-thirds of white-lipped peccary populations are on the decline, said scientists who met to [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[The white-lipped peccary (Tayassu pecari), a hairy, pig-like mammal that once lived throughout the forests of Central and South America, now only skitters around in 13 percent of its former range, according to a report released in November 2018. More than two-thirds of white-lipped peccary populations are on the decline, said scientists who met to discuss the future of the species in an August 2016 meeting in Belize City, Belize. That’s concerning, they warn, because peccaries are sensitive to hunting and deforestation. Thus, their disappearance could be a harbinger of the future loss of other wildlife. A camera trap nabs a group of white-lipped peccaries. Image courtesy of WCS. “No species represents the plight of the forests like the white-lipped peccary, which is now teetering at the edge of existence due to habitat loss and hunting,” Jeremy Radachowsky, an ecologist who directs the Wildlife Conservation Society’s Mesoamerica program and participated in the assessment, said in a statement. “We need to take immediate action to save Mesoamerica’s last wild places and their incredible wildlife.” The researchers, from the seven countries that still have white-lipped peccaries as well as the United States, surveyed biologists in their respective countries regarding the status of local white-lipped peccary populations. They then shared their findings with their colleagues in Belize, summarizing them in the November report. The results suggest that the animal’s current status as vulnerable on the IUCN Red List should be changed to endangered, according to the assessment. In Mexico and parts of Brazil,&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2018/12/peccarys-disappearance-foreboding-for-other-mesoamerican-wildlife/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-213808</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Earth has more trees now than 35 years ago</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2018/08/earth-has-more-trees-now-than-35-years-ago/</link>
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					<pubDate>15 Aug 2018 20:03:51 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Rhett Ayers Butler]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Rhett Butler]]>
					</author>
							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Amazon, Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Cerrado, Chaco, China, Congo Basin, Global, Paraguay, and Russia]]>
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											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Afforestation, Agriculture, boreal forests, Deforestation, Deserts, Drivers Of Deforestation, Dry Forests, Forest Recovery, Forests, Happy-upbeat Environmental, Impact Of Climate Change, Montane Forests, Rainforests, Remote Sensing, Satellite Imagery, Temperate Forests, and Tropical Forests]]>
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							<![CDATA[Despite ongoing deforestation, fires, drought-induced die-offs, and insect outbreaks, the world&#8217;s tree cover actually increased by 2.24 million square kilometers — an area the size of Texas and Alaska combined — over the past 35 years, finds a paper published in the journal Nature. But the research also confirms large-scale loss of the planet&#8217;s most [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Despite ongoing deforestation, fires, drought-induced die-offs, and insect outbreaks, the world&#8217;s tree cover actually increased by 2.24 million square kilometers — an area the size of Texas and Alaska combined — over the past 35 years, finds a paper published in the journal Nature. But the research also confirms large-scale loss of the planet&#8217;s most biodiverse ecosystems, especially tropical forests. The study, led by Xiao-Peng Song and Matthew Hansen of the University of Maryland, is based on analysis of satellite data from 1982 to 2016. The researchers broke land cover into three categories: tall vegetation consisting of trees of at least five meters (16 feet) in height; short vegetation under five meters in height including shrubs, grass, and agricultural crops; and &#8220;bare ground&#8221;, including urban areas, sand, tundra, and rock. While the classification may seem simplistic, powerful conclusions can be drawn from the data, including assessing agricultural expansion, climate-driven expansion and contraction of ecosystems, and forest clearing and recovery. &#8220;The results of this study reflect a human-dominated Earth system,&#8221; the researchers write. &#8220;Direct human action on landscapes is found over large areas on every continent, from intensification and extensification of agriculture to increases in forestry and urban land uses, with implications for the maintenance of ecosystem services.&#8221; Google Earth image showing deforestation around Igarapé Lage, in Rondônia, Brazil. Data from this study will be integrated Global Forest Watch, a platform for tracking trends in forests. Overall, the study found that tree cover loss in the tropics was outweighed by tree&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2018/08/earth-has-more-trees-now-than-35-years-ago/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Cerrado Manifesto could curb deforestation, but needs support: experts</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2018/03/cerrado-manifesto-could-curb-deforestation-but-needs-support-experts/</link>
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					<pubDate>29 Mar 2018 13:59:48 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Anna Sophie Gross]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Glenn Scherer]]>
					</author>
							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Amazon Agribusiness]]>
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											<locations>
							<![CDATA[Brazil, Cerrado, Chaco, China, Latin America, and South America]]>
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											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Agriculture, Cattle, Controversial, Deforestation, Drivers Of Deforestation, Environment, Forests, Green, Happy-upbeat Environmental, Industrial Agriculture, Land Use Change, Natural Resources, Pasture, Politics, Rainforests, Ranching, Social Justice, Soy, Tropical Deforestation, and Tropical Forests]]>
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							<![CDATA[GLO-4060 QZA-16/0047.3, TFAA2018, 1711-034]]>
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							<![CDATA[The Cerrado Manifesto could reduce rapid conversion of forest to cropland in Brazil’s savannah, but commodity firms Cargill, Bunge, ADM need to sign on, analysts say.]]>
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							<![CDATA[A single tree is all that remains of native vegetation cleared for soy production in the Cerrado. Photo by Jim Wickens, Ecostorm / Mighty Earth In October 2017, global companies, especially supermarkets and fast food chains including McDonalds, Walmart, Marks &amp; Spencer, METRO, Tesco, Nando’s and Unilever introduced a Statement of Support (SoS) for the Cerrado Manifesto. In that document they called for action to halt deforestation and native vegetation loss in Brazil’s Cerrado. Seen as the uncharismatic sister to the Amazon, the Cerrado biome has been under-appreciated by conservationists, and significantly under-protected by government, for decades. Once seen as mostly worthless savannah east and south of the Amazon, the Cerrado is now known to support significant biodiversity including 10,400 species of plants, nearly half of which are endemic; 935 species of birds; 780 freshwater fish; 113 amphibians; 180 reptiles; and nearly 300 mammal species. Known as an “upside-down forest” for its small but very deeply rooted trees, shrubs and grasses, the region also has an enormous carbon storage capacity, which acts as a buffer against climate change. But the biome, originally covering more than 2 million square kilometers (772,204 square miles), has been reduced by more than half, as soy and cattle production rapidly replaces native vegetation and wildlife. In 2016, researchers found that cropland within 450,000 square kilometers (173,745 square miles) of the Cerrado had doubled over a decade, increasing from 13,000 square kilometers (5,019 square miles) in 2003, to 25,000 square kilometers (9,652 square miles) in 2013.&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2018/03/cerrado-manifesto-could-curb-deforestation-but-needs-support-experts/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-205352</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Charcoal and cattle ranching tearing apart the Gran Chaco</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2017/07/charcoal-and-cattle-tearing-apart-the-gran-chaco/</link>
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					<pubDate>19 Jul 2017 04:14:30 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[John Cannon]]>
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						<![CDATA[John Cannon]]>
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							<![CDATA[Atlantic Forest, Chaco, Europe, Latin America, Paraguay, South America, and Tropics]]>
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							<![CDATA[agribusiness, Agriculture, Animals, Beef, Big Cats, Biodiversity, Camera Trapping, Carnivores, Cats, Cattle, Certification, charcoal, Conflict, Conservation, Corporate Environmental Transgressors, Corporations, Corruption, Culture, Deforestation, Degraded Lands, Drivers Of Deforestation, Dry Forests, Ecological Beauty, Ecology, Endangered Species, Environment, forest degradation, Forest Fragmentation, Forests, Fragmentation, Fuelwood, Habitat Degradation, Habitat Loss, Human-wildlife Conflict, Hunting, Indigenous Peoples, Jaguars, Megafauna, Pasture, Ranching, Remote Sensing, Satellite Imagery, Soy, Sustainability, Trees, Tropical Forests, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[Trees from one of South America’s fastest-disappearing landscapes are ending up as charcoal on the shelves of European supermarkets, according to a report by the NGO Earthsight. The London-based watchdog group claims international grocery store chains in Spain and Germany – and ultimately, the restaurants and barbecue chefs who buy the charcoal – are connected [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Trees from one of South America’s fastest-disappearing landscapes are ending up as charcoal on the shelves of European supermarkets, according to a report by the NGO Earthsight. The London-based watchdog group claims international grocery store chains in Spain and Germany – and ultimately, the restaurants and barbecue chefs who buy the charcoal – are connected to the unsustainable destruction of the dry tropical forests of the Gran Chaco in Paraguay. “The clearance of the Chaco forest is one of the largest and fastest losses of natural forest ever seen,” said Sam Lawson, who directs Earthsight, in a statement. “It is absolutely outrageous that major European supermarkets should have a hand in this.” A map using data from the University of Maryland and visualized on Global Forest Watch shows the extent of intact forest landscape and its loss on the IRASA lease location in the Gran Chaco from Sep 2011 to June 2016. Bricapar produces charcoal on the IRASA lease in Paraguay. In an investigation that spanned an entire year involving multiple forays into the Paraguayan Chaco, Earthsight reported on July 6 that, at current deforestation rates, 200,000 hectares could disappear from the Chaco’s forest this year – an area the size of Manhattan every two weeks. The cleared land will ultimately become cattle pasture, but in the meantime, charcoal “helps cover the up-front costs of clearing forest for cattle,” write the authors of the Earthsight report. They traced the charcoal from Bricapar, Paraguay’s largest seller, to Spain, where much of&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2017/07/charcoal-and-cattle-tearing-apart-the-gran-chaco/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>&#8216;Racing against time&#8217; to save the taguá and its vanishing Chaco home</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2017/01/racing-against-time-to-save-the-tagua-and-its-vanishing-chaco-home/</link>
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					<pubDate>05 Jan 2017 18:52:53 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[John Cannon]]>
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						<![CDATA[John Cannon]]>
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							<![CDATA[Chaco, Latin America, and South America]]>
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							<![CDATA[Agriculture, Animals, Biodiversity, Cattle, Conservation, Corporations, Deforestation, Dry Forests, Endangered Species, Environment, Forestry, Forests, Grasslands, Habitat, Habitat Degradation, Habitat Loss, Hunting, Indigenous Peoples, Land Grabbing, Mammals, Pasture, Politics, Protected Areas, Ranching, Rediscovered Species, Soy, Traditional People, Wildlife, and Zoos]]>
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							<![CDATA[Skittering in small clans among the hard-scrabble brush of the Gran Chaco in South America, the taguá looks like a cross between a svelte pig and an over-sized hedgehog. Also known as the Chacoan peccary (Catagonus wagneri), the animal has carved a precarious life for itself in the dry plains and woodlands that make up [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Skittering in small clans among the hard-scrabble brush of the Gran Chaco in South America, the taguá looks like a cross between a svelte pig and an over-sized hedgehog. Also known as the Chacoan peccary (Catagonus wagneri), the animal has carved a precarious life for itself in the dry plains and woodlands that make up its namesake ecosystem in Bolivia, Argentina and Paraguay. But in a place where life is already difficult, the disintegration of their environs has made survival even tougher. That’s left scientists, conservationists and governments scrambling to save the Chaco and with it this unusual, rapidly dwindling, emblematic species. The taguá, or Chacoan peccary, is distantly related to the domestic pig. It is one of three peccary species found in the Chaco and the only one endemic to the area. Photo by Juan Campos “It is rare to find an animal that large that is so specific to a very precise region,” said Dan Brooks, the curator of vertebrate zoology at the Houston Museum of Natural Science, who began studying animals in the Chaco back almost 30 years ago. The taguá, listed as Endangered by the IUCN, is one of many animals found only in this region. Slightly smaller than Egypt at 100 million hectares according to WWF, the Chaco is often overshadowed by its wetter and more densely forested neighbor, the Amazon. But its charms aren’t lost on scientists. “I immediately fell in love with the place,” said Mariana Altrichter, a conservation biologist at Prescott College&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2017/01/racing-against-time-to-save-the-tagua-and-its-vanishing-chaco-home/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-192162</doi>				</item>
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					<title>&#8216;Deforestation fronts&#8217; revealed</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2015/04/deforestation-fronts-revealed/</link>
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					<pubDate>27 Apr 2015 23:57:00 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Rhett Ayers Butler]]>
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						<![CDATA[Rhett Butler]]>
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							<![CDATA[Africa, Amazon, Asia, Atlantic Forest, Cerrado, Chaco, Congo Basin, Latin America, and South America]]>
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							<![CDATA[boreal forests, Conservation, Deforestation, Drivers Of Deforestation, Environment, Forests, Green, Rainforests, Redd, Tropical Forests, and Zero Deforestation Commitments]]>
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							<![CDATA[Summary of main pressures on forests in different deforestation fronts. Graphics courtesy of WWF&#8217;s LIVING FORESTS REPORT: SAVING FORESTS AT RISK. Click to enlarge. Environmental group WWF has released a new report projecting where the organization believes the bulk of global deforestation is likely to occur over the next 15 years. The analysis, published today, [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Summary of main pressures on forests in different deforestation fronts. Graphics courtesy of WWF&#8217;s LIVING FORESTS REPORT: SAVING FORESTS AT RISK. Click to enlarge. Environmental group WWF has released a new report projecting where the organization believes the bulk of global deforestation is likely to occur over the next 15 years. The analysis, published today, highlights eleven regions where &#8216;the bulk of global deforestation is projected to take place&#8217; by 2030. The list is dominated by places in South America and Asia-Pacific &#8212; it names the Amazon, the Atlantic Forest/Gran Chaco, the Cerrado, and the Chocó-Darién in Latin America, and Borneo, Eastern Australia, the Greater Mekong, New Guinea, and Sumatra. Two regions in Africa &#8212; the Congo Basin and East Africa &#8212; are also represented. For each region, WWF lays out specific drivers of deforestation, including logging, plantation development, small and large-scale agriculture, livestock production, charcoal and fuelwood, mining, infrastructure, and large dams. It also forecasts potential forest loss should drivers remain unchecked. The Amazon tops the list at 23-48 million hectares of loss by 2030, according to WWF&#8217;s model. It is followed by the Greater Mekong region &#8212; V &#8212; at 15-30 million hectares; Borneo (22 million ha); Brazil&#8217;s Cerrado (15 million ha); the Congo Basin (12 million ha); East Africa (12 million ha); and the Atlantic Forest/Gran Chaco of Brazil, Paraguay, Bolivia, and Argentina (10 million ha). Overall WWF estimates that under a business-as-usual scenario, 120-170 million hectares of forest would be lost across those regions during the&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2015/04/deforestation-fronts-revealed/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-23790</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Archer Daniels Midland to demand suppliers stop chopping down forests</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2015/03/archer-daniels-midland-to-demand-suppliers-stop-chopping-down-forests/</link>
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					<pubDate>31 Mar 2015 23:28:00 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Mongabay.com]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Rhett Butler]]>
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							<![CDATA[Amazon, Brazil, and Chaco]]>
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							<![CDATA[Cattle, Conservation, Corporations, Environment, Forests, Green, Palm Oil, Rainforests, Ranching, Soy, and Zero Deforestation Commitments]]>
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							<![CDATA[While deforestation for soy production in the Brazilian Amazon has slowed since the establishment of a deforestation moratorium in 2006, clearing for soy has increased sharply in recent years in the Bolivian Amazon; Paraguay&#8217;s Chaco, a dry forest ecosystem; and Brazil&#8217;s cerrado, a savanna woodland. Photo by Rhett A. Butler. Agribusiness giant Archer Daniels Midland [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[While deforestation for soy production in the Brazilian Amazon has slowed since the establishment of a deforestation moratorium in 2006, clearing for soy has increased sharply in recent years in the Bolivian Amazon; Paraguay&#8217;s Chaco, a dry forest ecosystem; and Brazil&#8217;s cerrado, a savanna woodland. Photo by Rhett A. Butler. Agribusiness giant Archer Daniels Midland (NYSE:ADM) will establish a zero deforestation policy for its global commodity supply chains, potentially forcing its soy, palm oil, and cattle suppliers to also eliminate deforestation from their operations or face losing business with the firm. The move, announced today and expected to be formally approved in May, came after a campaign by institutional investors and environmentalist groups. With ADM&#8217;s sprawling operations, including a presence in 140 countries, the commitment is one of the most significant in the commodity sector where a growing number of corporations are adopting social and environmental safeguards for raw materials sourcing, said Lucia von Reusner of Green Century Capital Management, a shareholder activist fund that pressured ADM to adopt the policy. &#8220;Clearing forests to grow food destroys the very ecosystems that agriculture depends on, and is a short-term business model that poses long-term threats to global food security and our climate,&#8221; von Reusner said in a statement. &#8220;ADM’s new policy aims to de-link food production from the crude practice of destroying forests, and sets the precedent for a new model of agricultural production that protects the environment and our food supply.&#8221; Soy and rainforest in the Brazilian Amazon. Photo by&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2015/03/archer-daniels-midland-to-demand-suppliers-stop-chopping-down-forests/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-23920</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Endangered forests shrink as demand for soy rises</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2015/03/endangered-forests-shrink-as-demand-for-soy-rises/</link>
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					<pubDate>10 Mar 2015 20:06:00 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Mrinalini Erkenswick Watsa]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Morgan Erickson-Davis]]>
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							<![CDATA[Amazon, Atlantic Forest, Brazil, Cerrado, Chaco, China, Europe, and South America]]>
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							<![CDATA[Environment, Forest Loss, Forests, Green, Habitat Loss, Rainforests, Soy, and Tropical Forests]]>
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							<![CDATA[Researchers devise new method to track soy consumption Rainforest fragments in a sea of soyfields in Mato Grosso, Brazil. Photo by Rhett A. Butler. Sitting down at my favorite restaurant I decide to order a stir-fry loaded up with fresh vegetables and noodles. Choosing the more eco-friendly route, I opt for soy in my food, [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Researchers devise new method to track soy consumption Rainforest fragments in a sea of soyfields in Mato Grosso, Brazil. Photo by Rhett A. Butler. Sitting down at my favorite restaurant I decide to order a stir-fry loaded up with fresh vegetables and noodles. Choosing the more eco-friendly route, I opt for soy in my food, rather than an animal-based protein. I feel pretty good about how healthy I’m being, but I know I could do better. I scour the menu for some idea of where my food is coming from, and finally end up asking the waiter. He immediately gets flustered and contacts his manager, while I try in vain to assure him that I’m merely curious and not really being critical of the restaurant or his service in any way. It is an exercise in frustration. As I look around me, I know that the fish, meat, vegetables or starch on the many plates around me could come from Indonesia or Guyana, but none of us knows. As battles over labeling genetically modified foods or displaying calorific breakdowns per serving rage on, it appears that a possibly more significant battle is in its infancy &#8211; where do all the ingredients on the package actually come from? Today, as the onset of winter barely changes what people in North America eat due to large-scale importation of produce from sunnier climes, scientists are pushing beyond simple single-stop trade route analyses to get to the meat of the problem. “Current methods linking&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2015/03/endangered-forests-shrink-as-demand-for-soy-rises/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-24011</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Indigenous communities in Paraguay threatened by deforestation despite having land rights</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2015/02/indigenous-communities-in-paraguay-threatened-by-deforestation-despite-having-land-rights/</link>
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					<pubDate>17 Feb 2015 21:27:00 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Ariel Mark]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Morgan Erickson-Davis]]>
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							<![CDATA[Chaco and Paraguay]]>
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							<![CDATA[Agriculture, Cattle, Environment, Forest Loss, Forests, Green, Habitat Loss, Indigenous Peoples, Land Rights, Law, Ranching, and Tropical Forests]]>
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							<![CDATA[An Ayoreo woman in front of a traditional communal Ayoreo house that was abandoned because of bulldozing activity, according to Survival International. Photo courtesy of Survival International. Their children were the only things they could carry as they fled from the forest-clearing bulldozer, recalls an Ayoreo Totobiegosode woman in a video interview with the human [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[An Ayoreo woman in front of a traditional communal Ayoreo house that was abandoned because of bulldozing activity, according to Survival International. Photo courtesy of Survival International. Their children were the only things they could carry as they fled from the forest-clearing bulldozer, recalls an Ayoreo Totobiegosode woman in a video interview with the human rights organization Survival International (SI). The Ayoreo Totobiegosode Indians of the Chaco forest in northwestern Paraguay, according to SI, are among the last “uncontacted” tribes south of the Amazon as well as one of the most vulnerable indigenous communities in the world. “We were afraid of the noise from the bulldozers,” explained the Totobiegosode woman (translation provided by SI). “When we heard them, we fled from one place to another. We thought the outsiders would kill us, so we didn’t want to get any closer to the noise. We didn’t know who it was that was clearing the forest.” According to a report by SI, the existence of the isolated Ayoreo Totobiegosode people is critically threatened by cattle ranching firms that are destroying their last forest refuge. The report asserts Paraguayan law gives native people the rights to their traditional land. Yet, most of the land in Paraguay is privatized, making these laws in reality difficult to achieve. In accordance with the constitution, the Paraguayan government is required to purchase traditional land from private owners and return it to native people. In spite of this, the government often claims the land is too expensive to&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2015/02/indigenous-communities-in-paraguay-threatened-by-deforestation-despite-having-land-rights/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-24095</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Jaguars in Argentine Chaco on verge of local extinction</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2013/12/jaguars-in-argentine-chaco-on-verge-of-local-extinction/</link>
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					<pubDate>23 Dec 2013 18:13:00 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Claire Salisbury]]>
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						<![CDATA[Tiffany Roufs]]>
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							<![CDATA[Argentina, Chaco, Latin America, and South America]]>
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											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Animals, Big Cats, Cattle, Conservation, Dry Forests, Endangered Species, Environment, Extinction, Green, Hunting, Jaguars, Mammals, and Ranching]]>
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							<![CDATA[The majestic jaguar (Panthera onca), the largest of the New World cats, is found as far north as the southern states of the US, and as far south as northern Argentina. In the past jaguars ranged 1,500 kilometers (930 miles) further south, but their range has shrunk as habitat loss and human disturbance have increased. [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[The majestic jaguar (Panthera onca), the largest of the New World cats, is found as far north as the southern states of the US, and as far south as northern Argentina. In the past jaguars ranged 1,500 kilometers (930 miles) further south, but their range has shrunk as habitat loss and human disturbance have increased. Overall, jaguars are classified as Near Threatened by the IUCN, but the level of risk facing jaguars varies by region. Populations in Argentina, at the present-day southern range limit, have previously been identified as some of the most threatened of them all. The Chaco is considered home to the largest Argentine population, but the inaccessibility of the region has meant that until recently very little was known about the exact status of the population here. To address this lack of knowledge, biologists have undertaken a major study of jaguar range and abundance, recently published in Fauna and Flora International&#8217;s journal, Oryx. The results of the study point to a striking conclusion: the jaguar population in the Argentine Chaco is in crisis, and at risk of imminent local extinction. Biologist Veronica Quiroga with a jaguar pelt hunted in the Argentinean Chaco. Photo courtesy of Verónica Quiroga. A vast wilderness of dry forest, scrubland and plains, the Gran Chaco is the second largest forest region in the Americas. It encompasses parts of Argentina, Bolivia and Paraguay, and is a hot, inhospitable and sparsely populated region. It was partly this isolation that drew biologist Verónica Quiroga, of the&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2013/12/jaguars-in-argentine-chaco-on-verge-of-local-extinction/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-25896</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Powered by Google, high resolution forest map reveals massive deforestation worldwide</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2013/11/powered-by-google-high-resolution-forest-map-reveals-massive-deforestation-worldwide/</link>
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					<pubDate>14 Nov 2013 19:12:00 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Rhett Ayers Butler]]>
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						<![CDATA[Rhett Butler]]>
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							<![CDATA[Amazon, Brazil, Chaco, Indonesia, Malaysia, Paraguay, Russia, and United States]]>
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							<![CDATA[boreal forests, Deforestation, Dry Forests, Environment, Forests, Green, Logging, Mapping, Rainforests, Remote Sensing, Satellite Imagery, Technology, Temperate Forests, and Wildtech]]>
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							<![CDATA[Researchers today released a long-awaited tool that reveals the extent of forest cover loss and gain on a global scale. Powered by Google&#8217;s massive computing cloud, the interactive forest map establishes a new baseline for measuring deforestation and forest recovery across all of the world&#8217;s countries, biomes, and forest types. The map has far-reaching implications [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Researchers today released a long-awaited tool that reveals the extent of forest cover loss and gain on a global scale. Powered by Google&#8217;s massive computing cloud, the interactive forest map establishes a new baseline for measuring deforestation and forest recovery across all of the world&#8217;s countries, biomes, and forest types. The map has far-reaching implications for efforts to slow deforestation, which accounts for roughly ten percent of greenhouse gas emissions produced by human activities, according to the authors of the paper that describes the tool and details its first findings. “People will use these data in ways we can’t even imagine today,” said Matthew Hansen, a University of Maryland geographer who is the lead author of the study, which will be published in tomorrow&#8217;s issue of the journal Science. “Brazil had used Landsat data to document its deforestation trends and to inform policy and they also shared their data publicly. But such data has not been widely available for other parts of the world. Our global mapping of forest cover lifts the veil—revealing what’s happening on the ground in places people could only conjecture about before.” The map does not distinguish between natural forests and plantations, but the underlying database will support the development of additional layers, which can be used to create masks for oil palm and timber plantations, enabling users to distinguish between deforestation, replanting of plantations, and conversion of forests to plantations. The study finds that some 2.3 million square kilometers (888,000 square miles) of forest was&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2013/11/powered-by-google-high-resolution-forest-map-reveals-massive-deforestation-worldwide/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-26080</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Little NGO takes on goliath task: conserving the vanishing ecosystems of Paraguay</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2013/08/little-ngo-takes-on-goliath-task-conserving-the-vanishing-ecosystems-of-paraguay/</link>
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					<pubDate>12 Aug 2013 12:16:00 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Dr Liz Kimbrough]]>
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						<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
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							<![CDATA[Atlantic Forest, Cerrado, Chaco, Latin America, Paraguay, and South America]]>
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							<![CDATA[Agriculture, Animals, Biodiversity, Birds, Conservation, Critically Endangered Species, Deforestation, Education, Endangered Species, Environment, Forests, Global Environmental Crisis, Grasslands, Green, Habitat Loss, In-situ Conservation, Interviews, Lakes, Parks, Protected Areas, Rainforest Destruction, Rainforests, Savannas, Science, Tropical Forests, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[Landlocked in the navel of South America, the forests, wetlands and savannahs of Paraguay boast rich biodiversity and endemic species, yet the unique landscapes of Paraguay also face increasing threats, primarily from agricultural expansion. Controlled burns and clear cutting have become common practice as wildlands are converted for soy and cattle production. In some areas [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Landlocked in the navel of South America, the forests, wetlands and savannahs of Paraguay boast rich biodiversity and endemic species, yet the unique landscapes of Paraguay also face increasing threats, primarily from agricultural expansion. Controlled burns and clear cutting have become common practice as wildlands are converted for soy and cattle production. In some areas this land conversion is rapid: the Paraguayan Chaco, for instance, is being lost at a rate of 10% per year. One organization is working to reverse this trend. Para La Tierra (PLT) is a small NGO dedicated to the conservation of threatened habitats in Paraguay. Located on the Reserva Natural Laguna Blanca, in-between two of South America&#8217;s most threatened habitats: the Atlantic Forest and the vast topical savannah known as the cerrado, PLT is in a unique position to champion conservation. Over the past four years, PLT has welcomed over 200 students and professionals to their field site, providing them with the equipment and training needed to conduct their own independent research projects. Scientists working with PLT have discovered over a dozen previously undescribed species and documented the presence of more than 40 new species for the country. In addition to research, PLT has strong educational and outreach components. PLT staff and scientists conduct workshops both on reserves and in classrooms for young Paraguayans. White-winged nightjar. Photo by: Marcelo Prest/Creative Commons 3.0. PLT is currently focusing efforts on the conservation of the white-winged nightjar (Caprimulgus candicans),a Critically Endangered bird known to breed in only three&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2013/08/little-ngo-takes-on-goliath-task-conserving-the-vanishing-ecosystems-of-paraguay/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-26548</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Animal picture of the day: the prehistoric peccary</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2012/05/animal-picture-of-the-day-the-prehistoric-peccary/</link>
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					<pubDate>02 May 2012 16:07:00 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
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						<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
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							<![CDATA[Argentina, Bolivia, Chaco, Latin America, Paraguay, and South America]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animals, Endangered Species, Environment, Green, Mammals, Photos, Picture Of The Day, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[The Chacaon peccary, the newest member of the Wildlife Conservation Society&#8217;s Queens Zoo. Photo by: Julie Larson Maher. The Chacoan peccary (Catagonus wagneri) was only known from fossils and thought extinct, perhaps a victim of the megafaunal extinction that ended the Pleistocene, until researchers in the 1970s stumbled on a living population in Argentina. While [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[The Chacaon peccary, the newest member of the Wildlife Conservation Society&#8217;s Queens Zoo. Photo by: Julie Larson Maher. The Chacoan peccary (Catagonus wagneri) was only known from fossils and thought extinct, perhaps a victim of the megafaunal extinction that ended the Pleistocene, until researchers in the 1970s stumbled on a living population in Argentina. While peccaries look like and are distantly related to the pig species that originated in the Old World, they belong to their own family, the Tayassuidae. Today the species is considered the largest of the three recognized species of peccary, although a fourth (the giant peccary) is debated. The Chacoan peccary is found in the dry forests of the Gran Chaco ecosystem located in Argentina, Paraguay and Bolivia, but the species is imperiled by habitat lost, disease, and over hunting. Around 3,000 individuals were estimated to survive in the region, but that was before their dry forests suffered large-scale deforestation for soy and cattle ranching. The IUCN Red List currently categorizes the species as Endangered. Chacoan peccaries are now held in captivity in a number of zoos. The Wildlife Conservation Society&#8217;s Queens Zoo recently added three males to their collection. Chacoan peccary at the Phoenix Zoo. Photo by: Dave Pape.This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2012/05/animal-picture-of-the-day-the-prehistoric-peccary/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-30971</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Satellite evidence of deforestation in uncontacted tribe&#8217;s territory sparks legal action</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2011/04/satellite-evidence-of-deforestation-in-uncontacted-tribes-territory-sparks-legal-action/</link>
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					<pubDate>12 Apr 2011 20:31:00 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
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						<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
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							<![CDATA[Chaco, Latin America, Paraguay, and South America]]>
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							<![CDATA[Cattle, Corporate Environmental Transgressors, Deforestation, Dry Forests, Environment, Environmental Law, Forests, Governance, Green, Indigenous Peoples, Indigenous Rights, Law, Ranching, Traditional People, and Tropical Forests]]>
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							<![CDATA[The destruction of 3,600 hectares (8,900 acres) of the Gran Chaco forest in Paraguay by large Brazilian cattle ranching companies has led to a legal complaint filed by a local indigenous-rights organization, since the land in question was one of the last refuges of a group of uncontacted indigenous people in the Ayoreo-Totobiegosode tribe. The [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[The destruction of 3,600 hectares (8,900 acres) of the Gran Chaco forest in Paraguay by large Brazilian cattle ranching companies has led to a legal complaint filed by a local indigenous-rights organization, since the land in question was one of the last refuges of a group of uncontacted indigenous people in the Ayoreo-Totobiegosode tribe. The loss of the forest was revealed in part by satellite images of the remote area. &#8220;I am very worried about this destruction because we don’t know where exactly the people still in the forest are living. I have a sister among them. This is why we don’t want the outsiders to destroy more of the forest with their bulldozers,&#8221; Ojinai, an Ayoreo man, told Survival International, a global NGO devoted to indigenous rights. The recent destruction has spurred the local organization, The Support Group for the Totobiegosode (GAT), to file a legal complaint against Brazilian cattle companies, River Plate and BBC S.A., with environmental authorities. &#8220;These firms did not have a license from the Secretariat of the Environment. We have observed and noted the destruction of forest in a 2,300 hectare area, and another of 1,300 hectares,&#8221; Juan Rivarola, an official with Paraguay&#8217;s Secretariat of the Environment, told the AFP. Rivarola said that government officials had visited the site and confirmed the destruction of indigenous territory. The legal complaint is only the most recent in a long history conflict in the region between the forest and indigenous groups on the one hand and agriculture, cattle-ranching,&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2011/04/satellite-evidence-of-deforestation-in-uncontacted-tribes-territory-sparks-legal-action/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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