The Guaraní nation is protecting a dry forest bigger than Yellowstone — and jaguars roam it

Ñembi Guasu, 'the Great Refuge' in Guaraní, spans nearly 3 million acres of Chaco dry forest and is the first conservation area in Bolivia created and governed by an Indigenous autonomous government. Rubén Darío Montero, who patrols it with camera traps, has already identified at least eight jaguars, along with tapirs, giant anteaters and pumas. As wildfires intensify across South America, this Indigenous-led territory is holding the line for one of Earth's last great intact dry forests.