A clear-cut area. The Forest is gone. Deforestation is growing in the Chaco region
Argentina Chaco region Formosa province Deforestation is making the Chaco forests to disappear The causes are furniture making firewood and soybean plantations The photo shows an area that has been clear cut This area used to be a forest in the mid 1990 s The Gran Chaco is an extensive and mostly flat region in the center of South America It occupies 1 000 000 Km2 half of which are located in Argentina It represents the second largest forested region in the continent and the most important one in Argentina It presents important climatic gradients in rainfall and temperature It includes tropical as well as subtropical environments like dry and humid forests wetlands and flood grasslands Thorny species are common specially in the dryer areas Flora includes quebracho trees Schinopsis spp and algarrobo trees Prosopis spp Among the fauna one can find caimans Caiman spp capybaras Hidrocaeris hidrocaeris brocket deer Mazama sp and black howler monkey Alouatta caraya Other more uncommon species like the Giant armadillo Priodontes maximus are found in the dry portion of the Chaco
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Location: Las Lomitas, Formosa, Argentina
Photo credit: © Christian Ostrosky / Alamy / Afripics
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