Study reveals world's highest deforestation rate on uncontacted tribe's land - Survival International

Study reveals world's highest deforestation rate on uncontacted tribe's land - Survival International:

 A new scientific study has revealed that Paraguay’s Chaco forest – the last refuge of the uncontacted Ayoreo tribe – is being devastated by the world’s highest rate of deforestation.

The study by the University of Maryland found that ’Paraguay’s Chaco woodlands (…) are experiencing rapid deforestation in the development of cattle ranches. The result is the highest rate of deforestation in the world.’

These dramatic satellite images show the astonishing extent of forest destruction in the Chaco between 1990 and 2013 – and also that the area claimed by the Ayoreo (red outline) is one of the last remaining patches of forest left.

 

Ranching companies are intent on clearing the last forest refuge of the uncontacted Ayoreo.