Our results underscore the urgent need for equitable sustainability planning to mitigate the ecological marginalization of forest-dependent communities and other vulnerable groups in the Chaco and elsewhere.

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Advancing industrial cropping & ranching puts a considerable strain on forest-dependent Indigenous communities by:
1.diminishing forest area in the surrounding of Indigenous communities & affecting ecosystem functioning
2.decreasing access to remaining forest
3.limiting access to water sources.

Two Chacoan peccaries enjoying the mud. Recorded by the survey cameras in Bolivia.