Tag: Chaco

• Friday, September 16th 2022 - 09:37 UTC

  Drilling in search of oil in Paraguay to continue

  

  Despite previous comments that there was no commercial oil available in Paraguay's soil, President Energy is to drill its third well in the Chaco region, it was announced Thursday.

• Wednesday, June 22nd 2022 - 09:22 UTC

  Paraguayan indigenous group seeks help from Spain

  

  A Paraguayan indigenous community in the Chaco region has turned to Spain for help with the supply of drinking water and other basic resources following a lack of attention from local authorities, it was reported.

• Friday, April 29th 2022 - 09:30 UTC

  Whitley Fund's Green Oscar goes to Argentine Chaco conservationist

  

  Argentina's Micaela Camino was awarded Thursday the so-called “Green Oscar” by the British Whitley Fund For Nature (WFN) for her research work to safeguard the dry Chaco forest.

• Wednesday, April 20th 2022 - 09:34 UTC

  Argentina: Massacre of indigenous groups and its cover-up brought to trial

  

  Although none of the suspects is still alive, an Argentine court in the northern province of Chaco began Tuesday a “truth trial” for the so-called “Napalpi massacre,” the killing of native peoples perpetrated in 1924.

• Wednesday, February 2nd 2022 - 09:10 UTC

  NGOs claim most deforestation in northern Argentina during 2021 was illegal

  

  Around 110,180 hectares of forest were destroyed in the Argentine provinces of Santiago del Estero, Formosa, Chaco, and Salta during the year 2021 as a result of illegal practices, according to Greenpeace.

• Wednesday, October 7th 2020 - 09:55 UTC

  Paraguay declares national emergency as forest fires rage across Chaco

  

  Paraguay’s Congress declared a national emergency as forest fires raged, burning vast swaths of the Chaco dry forest, home to sprawling cattle ranches, jaguars and many indigenous tribes.

• Monday, July 27th 2020 - 09:32 UTC

  Argentina ready to launch satellite to monitor logging of native forests mainly in Chaco

  

  Argentina plans to put into orbit a satellite with new precision technology sometime this week, to monitor the felling of its native forests round the clock and accurately measure forest carbon stocks in a bid to help curb climate change, scientists said.

• Thursday, February 20th 2020 - 18:30 UTC

  Despite excess rainfall in the north, Argentina still expects to collect 53.1 million tons of soybeans

  

  It rained more in two days than it usually does in a month in some northern Argentine soy growing areas recently, but the crop losses will have little effect on national production when harvesting starts next month, farm weather experts said.

• Tuesday, September 22nd 2015 - 05:52 UTC

  Argentina: Double celebration for Kirchnerism, in Chaco and Tucuman provinces

  

  Double victory for Cristina Fernandez and the 'Kirchnerite' model: her candidates won the governorship in the northern province of Chaco and the Tucuman Supreme Court validated the result which confirmed that former Healthcare minister Juan Manzur last 23 August was the clear winner and the next governor of the province.

• Thursday, January 8th 2015 - 00:42 UTC

  Argentina shocked over the death of indigenous child of malnutrition and TB

  

  Argentina is in state of shock following the death of a seven-year old aborigine of malnutrition which turned into a complicated case of TB. The child belonged to the Qom indigenous community in Chaco, northern Argentina that has been forced to a life of deprivation and despair because on ongoing battles over the possession of reservation lands.