The impacts of Paraguayan charcoal export to European markets upon deforestation of Paraguay’s Chaco forest

Abstract

This research aims to portray both the environmental and social damage that took place in Chaco Forest, as well as to explain how procedures in charcoal export between Paraguay and European Market harmed the Chaco forest. The study shows that the damaging impacts caused by charcoal production in the Chaco forest are significant. The Chaco forest experienced deforestation that reduced connectivity and caused a substantial amount of land fragmentation, as well as social impacts on husbandry, farming, and the local economy, which entails eviction of the locals. Despite the negative impacts, there have been several attempts in minimizing the damage by the Paraguayan government and various stakeholders, although those attempts are seen to have a less significant effect on the solvency of the damages of the Chaco forest.

Análisis de la distribución espacial de la precipitación anual (1979-2014) aplicando métodos de interpolación en la Región Occidental del Paraguay

“…Es así que Mereles et al (2019) mencionan que existen empresas que prosperan al norte del territorio, dedicadas mayormente a la producción de carne de alta calidad y genética, lo que hace que el país se vea privilegiado con exportación de alta gama, pero a expensas de la modificación de los sistemas naturales. Esto se constata en otro estudio realizado por Prayogi et al (2020) donde se habla de la exportación de carbón a Europa fruto de la producción a expensas de la vegetación natural del Chaco paraguayo, situación que ha causado un ritmo acelerado de deforestación en el área.…”

Cohesiveness of NGOs and the community in the anti-coastal reclamation social movement

“…This resistance then led to the temporary suspension of the company's activities in March 1999. Some recent research related to NGOs and the Environmental Social Movement in Indonesia (Lay, 2017;Nomura, 2007Nomura, , 2009Schweizer et al, 2016;Baharuddin et al, , 2016Varelly et al, 2019;Prayogi et al, 2020;Syarifuddin, et al, 2020) have provided an overview of related to NGO relations with the government but are still minimal research that looks specifically at the relations of NGOs and the communities they advocate. This research places the environmental and economic impacts on society as the cause of resistance from the Coalition of NGOs and the Community.…”