Expanding livestock frontiers and their implications for jaguar conservation in South America’s dry diagonal (opens in new tab)

Livestock production is a major driver of deforestation, carbon emissions, and biodiversity loss in South America, yet the livestock sector is often treated as a monolithic entity, obscuring how diverse actors, from smallholders to agribusinesses, drive distinct social-ecological impacts. To address this gap, we spatially relate livestock systems and deforestation frontiers across the 4.2 million km2 South American Dry Diagonal (Chaco, Chiquitano, Caatinga, and Cerrado), one of the world’s mo...