Argentina exports soy to China that is associated with deforestation.<\/p>\n
When Chinese soy demand and that of other countries increases, the agricultural frontier tends to expand at the expense of native forests. All in violation of the Forest Law<\/a> that sought to preserve them.<\/p>\n A new study by Greenpeace records – visually and statistically – the extent forest loss in four Argentine provinces, where 112,766 hectares were deforested in 2018. Of those, 40,965 were in areas where industrial exploitation is prohibited or restricted by law.<\/p>\n \u201cWe see the before and after to verify if there is a change in land use, or deforestation,\u201d said Hern\u00e1n Giardini, head of the Greenpeace forest campaign, who added that the organisation works in the provinces of Santiago del Estero, Salta, Chaco and Formosa, which account for 80% of Argentina\u2019s deforestation over the past 30 years.<\/p>\n