Argentina’s tortuous campaign to create a national park on its part of the Chaco, the vast subtropical lowland that also stretches into Paraguay, Bolivia and Brazil, has reached a successful conclusion. The Chaco province Court of Appeals last month awarded the provincial government possession of 130,000 hectares (321,000 acres) of former ranchland in what is called El Impenetrable, a rugged, dry-forest portion of the Chaco located 1,200 kilometers (745 miles) north of Buenos Aires. Last month’s ruling allowed Chaco province Governor Domingo Peppo on April 20 to sign the transfer of the land, once part of a large ranch called La Fidelidad, to Argentina’s National Parks Administration (APN). Argentina’s Congress voted to confer national park status on the property in 2014, but parks personnel... [Log in to read more]