In Argentina, a movement to save the Chaco forest hits the COVID-19 wall
Published on: Monday 17 August 2020
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 […]
News source: https://news.mongabay.com/2020/08/in-argentina-a-movement-to-save-the-chaco-forest-hits-the-covid-19-wall/