Paraguay expanded a reserve in the Gran Chaco. Why is deforestation still rising there?

Mongabay
May 8, 2026, 12:59 pm122 ptsTrending
More than a decade ago, officials in Paraguay expanded a biosphere reserve in the Gran Chaco, hoping to protect more of the world’s largest tropical dry forest and the Indigenous communities who live there. But a lack of enforcement has left the reserve vulnerable to deforestation caused by agribusiness and…

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