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Women from the Campo del Cielo community upload photographs of the Pilcomayo River and share them with each other and experts to monitor flooding. Photo by Nanum Centers. The Pilcomayo River frequently floods, creating a reoccurring disaster of lost lives and property for the rural communities of South America’s Gran Chaco region. Unlike most rivers, during the rainy season up to a third of the Pilcomayo’s volume is sediment carried in the water, and its path is unpredictable. When the muddy river floods its banks, it deposits that sediment in huge mounds of mud, at times burying entire houses and cars. ....
Harrisia Bonplandi 15 SEEDS Condition: Brand new Harrisia bonplandii is a species of cactus and can be found in the southwest of Brasil, in Paraguay, in Bolivia and in the north of Argentina in the Chaco .The cactus plants in the Gran Chaco are generally called Tuna and this specific variety Reina de la Noche. Fruits and roots are edible and well known to the native nations of the Gran Chaco. It is stem scandent, clambering or sprawling and grows up leaning-climbing. The stems have diameters of up to 5 centimeters and are up to 2.5 meters long. They are three to four edged with flat faces. Their edges are sharp and wavy. The single strong central spine is up to 2.5 centimeters long. The four to five side spines reach a length of 4 to 5 millimeters The flowers reach a length of 20 to 25 centimeters Their pericarpel and the corolla tube are virtually without wool, but filled with large scurf’s. The spherical, redfruits are edible and strongly tuberculate. They have di ....
We have to prevent that! Greenpeaceis working to ensure that the toxic deal does not materialize. The trade agreement between the EU and the South American Mercosur countries Uruguay is about to be concluded. The Gran Chaco – stretches across the border region of Argentina, Paraguay, and Bolivia. Nowhere in the world is clearing for the cultivation of soy progressing faster than here for soy planting. The deal aims to lower tariffs on agricultural products like beef. For these products, more and more rainforest is being destroyed in the Amazon region – often by slash and burn. The huge biodiversity in the ....
A police operation targeting firearms trafficking across South America has seen thousands of illicit firearms seized, thousands of arrests and investigative leads generated on crime networks and smuggling routes. Over three weeks (8 – 28 March), Operation Trigger VI saw the arrest of almost 4,000 suspects across all 13 South American countries, with some 200,000 illicit firearms, parts, components, ammunition and explosives recovered. Hundreds of thousands of people and vehicles were searched at suspected hotspots and air, land and sea borders across the region. Interpol Coordinated by INTERPOL and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), the joint operation enabled police, customs, border and prosecution services to work together, carrying out nearly 10,000 checks against INTERPOL databases to track illegal firearms and identify potential links with organized crime. ....
World leaders including Jean-Claude Juncker and Jair Bolsonaro at the G20 summit in Osaka in 2019 (Image: GETTY) Loss of the treaty would be a huge blow for current Commission President Ursula von der Leyen (Image: GETTY) “Citizens across Europe and South America are uniting against the EU-Mercosur agreement and working towards a better future.” An accompanying petition on the website calling for the deal to be binned has attracted more than 2.1 million signatures so far. Mercosur, officially known as the Southern Common Market, was established by the Treaty of Asuncion in 1991. Argentina, Brazil - led by controversial President Jair Bolsonaro - Paraguay and Uruguay are full members, while Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Peru and Suriname. Venezuela’s membership has been suspended since December 1, 2016. ....