{"id":50364837,"date":"2023-04-06T17:05:22","date_gmt":"2023-04-06T14:05:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dialogochino.net\/?p=64837"},"modified":"2023-06-16T23:14:38","modified_gmt":"2023-06-16T20:14:38","slug":"364837-big-banks-deforestation-threatens-indigenous-people-paraguay-chaco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/forests\/364837-big-banks-deforestation-threatens-indigenous-people-paraguay-chaco\/","title":{"rendered":"Big banks linked to deforestation that threatens Indigenous people"},"content":{"rendered":"

In 2022, an isolated Indigenous group disappeared in the Brazilian Amazon. With the death of one man<\/a> \u2013 the last member of an uncontacted tribe \u2013 an entire culture vanished. But this grim demise did not arrive at a moment\u2019s notice: it began decades earlier with the unchecked expansion of livestock farming across the country\u2019s north.<\/p>\n

Now, another Indigenous group in South America faces a similar threat. The Ayoreo people live in the forests of the Gran Chaco in Paraguay, where protected land has been drastically deforested<\/a> in recent decades. Those responsible range from the Paraguayan government to local ranchers \u2013 and international financiers, as a new analysis has detailed.<\/p>\n

The report<\/a>, published 30 March by human rights NGO Global Witness, reveals how major international financial institutions, including Santander and BNP Paribas, have bankrolled meatpacking companies accused<\/a> of buying cattle raised by ranchers linked to illegal deforestation and land-grabbing in the Paraguayan Chaco. The two companies implicated are Paraguayan firm Frigorifico Concepci\u00f3n and Brazilian multinational Minerva, which has also been linked<\/a> to illegal forest clearance in the Brazilian Amazon.<\/p>\n

The Global Witness report builds on the \u201cGrand Theft Chaco<\/a>\u201d investigations released by UK-based nonprofit Earthsight in 2020, in which both companies were named. The meatpackers, however, have not made changes to their operations in the period since, the report\u2019s author, Charlie Hammans, told Di\u00e1logo Chino.

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