Gran Chaco: Nexo y pulsión de vida

[Music] entering the Gran Chaco is entering the heart of South America, the great Chaco beats and does so without stridency without haste but there it is beating strongly connecting environments being a nexus and drive of life The Gran Chaco is the largest Dry Forest globally and For that and other reasons, it is very valuable. There are 108 million hectares of unique biodiversity that covers Argentina, Paraguay, Bolivia and Brazil, and the Chaco is of fundamental importance for three main reasons. One is a system that is connected to other systems throughout Latin America. Second reason is because it is a place of wealth of nature like very few other places on earth and third because it will be a place to protect many species from climate change and also to produce to provide ecosystem services to all humanity when one walks in the great Chaco, each step in its dry lands cracks something in our memory and in our conscience. And its destruction has accelerated in recent decades until its heartbeat is endangered by the growing demand for food translated into soybean fields and new spaces for cattle pasture were gaining territory and degrading their soils, however, there is the possibility of looking at the Gran Chaco in this complexity and getting out of the false dichotomy between production and conservation is feasible since we firmly believe that it is possible to combine observation and production in fact not only that it is possible to combine it but that they are two sides of the same coin, they are two completely complementary approaches and at tnc our great role is precisely that of facilitator between the different sectors of society to work towards a common objective and This common objective is shared by a large part of society, a large part of society wants a future where nature is conserved, a large part of society. I want a future where food is produced and where economic growth occurs to sustain the populations that live. In these very unique places, the great Chaco has very marked environments and the substantial difference is the water. The lack of water shows us an arid rustic landscape of mountains and wilderness and some lagoons sometimes created by farmers to store rainwater. quebrachos palo santo chaguar occupy the land and dispute the resources with the honey bear Los Armadillos or the chancho qu melero species that only breathe and live in this part of the planet here the challenge is for large producers to be increasingly profitable on the surfaces that they cultivate and that the smallest farmers find a business model that allows them to live in and of the Monte in a sustainable way, conserving biodiversity with strong institutions that make the heartbeats of the Gran Chaco heard where important decisions are made, one of the strong approaches What tnc has is to be based on scientific evidence And this is evidence that is generated by scientific literature that has been reviewed by peers, so they have a robust level of support and based on that we build a great base to later work with different sectors of the society, then another of the aspects that TNC has is to be a facilitator, an articulator between different sectors, to work towards common objectives. Another of the aspects of our work is to achieve effects on a large scale, so to work to achieve that level of scale we work a lot with organizations that have a lot of presence in the territory with many producer associations with different interest groups this is also the great Chaco it is also ecosystem services that must be preserved the challenge is to create productive systems that value natural environments and thus limit the change in land use I believe that the future is going to be spectacular, I believe that tnc in the territory will be able to achieve the impact that these critical environments need, we are working with all the sectors of society with which we have to work, we are including the different voices to the different points of view to be able to reach fundamental agreements to achieve the conservation impacts that we need in this [Music] region Here and now the future is more than ever the present the time is today there is will there is commitment there is decision there is joint work for preservation and there is a great that if you see us United beats stronger beats [Music] grateful and we have to hurry because we have a window of the next 10 years to achieve the impact we need in this region because climate change and Environmental threats are not going to wait for us, so the time to act is today and for that our team is working incessantly on the largest dimensions of the environmental problems that Chaco has at this moment and I am sure that we will be able to achieve the impact that we need to conserve this region in the long term see you in 10 years see you in 10 years [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] for the nature conservancy the Gran Chaco is an iconic site