The clearing is taking place silently and illegally in a protected area to divert water to the Mar Chiquita lagoon.
There are no announcements or permissions on the work. The canal is twenty meters wide and crosses a native forest in the province of Córdoba, Argentina.
Although a new Forestry Law has not yet been regulated , this native forest is on the map of the Territorial Zoning of the Native Forests in the Red Zoning, meaning that no intervention can be made there, and in the case That it should be, must be authorized by the provincial government.
The construction of this canal would seriously affect the vegetation and biodiversity of the largest native forest of that region of Cordoba and that should be protected. The forest of Tinoco is a virgin zone where the hand of the man still had not accionado. Among the species that can be found in the forest are the white quebracho, carob, tala, hat of all, piquillín and other natives.
Studies done by the National University of Cordoba and the Multidisciplinary Institute of Plant Biology have determined that this forest is the habitat of a rich biodiversity where a great variety of plant and animal species live. Fundamentally it is a dwelling of at least one hundred species of birds. It is studied to postulate the Tinoco forest as an Area of Importance for the Conservation of Birds (AICAS), following the protocols of Aves Argentinas.
The native forest of Tinoco is in a transition between the spinal forest and the Chaco. The ecosystem that is found there is threatened throughout the province by the clearing that produces real estate speculation, livestock and the advance of the soybean frontier.
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