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Gran Chaco clearing

Dry forest cleared for soy and cattle at industrial scale.

240.1 hectares changed — new vegetation · Before: 1 May 2018 – 31 Aug 2018 · After: 1 May 2023 – 31 Aug 2023 · -24.500, -61.500

BEFORE 2018-08

AFTER 2023-08

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240.1 haarea changed

53areas flagged

10,020 haarea examined

1satellites used

What changed, by type

237.7 haNew vegetation

1.0 haBurnt ground

0.9 haWater disappeared

0.5 haVegetation cleared

Land changes in both directions at once. SCOPE reports every type it measured, not only the one that makes the better headline.

What SCOPE found

New vegetation — 101.9 ha
4.5 km west · between 28 Aug 2018 and 14 May 2023 · 87% sure

New vegetation — 16.6 ha
3.0 km west · between 28 Aug 2018 and 14 May 2023 · 86% sure

New vegetation — 8.6 ha
4.9 km south · between 28 Aug 2018 and 14 May 2023 · 78% sure

New vegetation — 6.0 ha
4.0 km south-west · between 28 Aug 2018 and 14 May 2023 · 88% sure

New vegetation — 3.6 ha
2.8 km west · between 28 Aug 2018 and 14 May 2023 · 84% sure

How sure is this?

The strongest area (#1) has 87% confidence. It appears in 6 of 6 later clear images, so it is not a one-day artefact. Radar could not confirm or rule them out (normal for vegetation changes), so the result rests on repeated clear optical views and the seasonal comparison. Note: Radar corroboration was unavailable for these dates. Confidence measures how strong the evidence for real surface change is; it does not identify the cause or who did it.

How it was measured

SCOPE used Sentinel-2 optical imagery at 10 m, cloud-masked and combined over each period , and the same season in earlier years so normal seasonal change is not reported as real change. The analysis took 24 seconds.

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