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Patagonian octopus eggs in Puerto Lobos Protected Natural Area in Argentina. Image courtesy of Martin Brogger.

Baby octopus in Argentina: Photo of the week

Shanna Hanbury 31 Mar 2026

Argentina updates national IUCN mammal list with new focus on non-native species

Maxwell Radwin 24 Mar 2026

Argentina considers weakening glacier safeguards in pursuit of critical minerals

Maxwell Radwin 19 Feb 2026

Guanacos’ return to Gran Chaco restirs debate around wildlife translocations

Mark Hillsdon 12 Feb 2026

Study finds climate change set the stage for devastating wildfires in Argentina and Chile

Associated Press 11 Feb 2026

Argentina fires ravage pristine Patagonia forests, fueling criticism of Milei’s austerity

Associated Press 2 Feb 2026

Patagonia fires reignite debate over Argentina’s underfunded environmental agencies

Maxwell Radwin 26 Jan 2026

The rise of CC35 and the business behind its climate deals

Gloria Pallares 22 Dec 2025
Communities in the Salinas Grandes and Laguna de Guayatayoc Basin have activities such as livestock farming, agriculture, crafts and tourism. Image courtesy of Clemente Flores.

Lithium mining may threaten a precious resource — water: Voices from the land (commentary)

Clemente Flores 27 Oct 2025

State-NGO collaboration expands protection for Patagonia’s biodiversity hotspot

Mark Hillsdon 16 Oct 2025

IUCN downgrades guiña threat status, prompting conservation warning

Sean Mowbray 10 Oct 2025
Vilma de Callata, 45, draws water for her animals in Tusaquillas, Jujuy Province, Argentina, Sunday, April 23, 2023. Her native Kolla people have spent centuries climbing deep into the mountains of northern Argentina in search of a simple substance: Fresh drinking water. Image by Photo/Rodrigo Abd.

In Argentina, lithium exploration proceeds amid community disputes

Aimee Gabay 10 Sep 2025

Argentina’s elephant seals face 100-year recovery after avian flu devastation: Study

Astrid Arellano 20 Aug 2025

Argentina pushes pipeline exports through protected Patagonian waters

Rodolfo Chisleanschi 18 Aug 2025

New charges added in Argentina’s largest-ever wildlife case as key defendant attempts to flee the country

Ana Cristina Alvarado 14 Aug 2025
Nalá and her cub spotted on the banks of the Bermejo River in Argentina’s El Impenetrable National Park. Image courtesy of Pablo Luna.

Jaguar cub born in Argentina’s Gran Chaco after three decades

Shanna Hanbury 7 Aug 2025
Banner image of a cattle ranch in the Paraguayan Chaco by Peer V via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0).

Pasture and agricultural expansion in Gran Chaco drive biodiversity loss: Study

Kristine Sabillo 23 Jul 2025
The Andean cat is a rare and endangered species highly specialized to life in the high Andes. It’s estimated that around 2,000 mature individuals, living in fragmented populations, are spread very thinly over a vast alpine expanse in Argentina, Bolivia, Chile and Peru.

Endangered Andean cat is imperiled by climate change and its solutions

Sean Mowbray 10 Jul 2025
The giant otter Coco and her pups. Image courtesy of Sebastian Navajas/Rewilding Argentina.

Giant river otter returns to Argentina after almost four decades

Shanna Hanbury 3 Jul 2025

Private financing for Argentina’s lithium is anything but green, critics say

Maxwell Radwin 1 Jul 2025
El Rincon frog

On a Patagonian plateau, a microendemic frog makes a hopeful comeback

Mark Hillsdon 20 Jun 2025
jaguar

Jaguar recovery unites Brazil and Argentina in conservation effort

Sarah Brown 11 Jun 2025

Still no trial over Argentina cyanide mine spill, 7 years after officials were charged

Aimee Gabay 16 Apr 2025

Lithium Triangle mining may strain water sources more than expected, study says

Maxwell Radwin 4 Apr 2025
jaguar cage

Ambitious conservation projects pave the way for Argentina’s jaguar recovery

Sarah Brown 25 Mar 2025

Scientists study plant restoration in Argentina’s deserts

Claudia Geib 17 Mar 2025

‘Silent killing machines’: How water canals threaten wildlife across the globe

Aldem Bourscheit 20 Feb 2025
An ocelot walks tentatively into a pre-release enclosure.

Getting rewilding right with the reintroduction of small wildcats

Sean Mowbray 18 Feb 2025

Deforestation boom in Gran Chaco raises alarm over Argentina’s forest law

Maxwell Radwin 14 Feb 2025

Elephant seal colonies in Argentina face long recovery after ‘catastrophic’ avian flu

Maxwell Radwin 22 Nov 2024

Killing of jaguar pushes species’ survival in Argentina’s Gran Chaco to the brink

Rodolfo Chisleanschi 11 Nov 2024

Forest fires rage across South America, devastating the Amazon and beyond

Shanna Hanbury 10 Oct 2024

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