Erika Cuellar
and her para biologists
working tirelessly
to maintain the vast
expanses of the Chaco
biodiversity
Argentina
Bolivia
Brazil
and Paraguay
each has its share
of this wilderness
and its endless
and magical sky
a land of complex
temperatures
an empty unique state
its relationship with its
people
its losing at a rate
a burden on the area
the corporate world of sin
the ranchers and the soy farmers
with their expansive spin
a true ruination
of the wilderness we know
destruction of what Nature
does and how it all does grow
the rugged hostile thorny exterior
where in hides so much
many types of animals
and so few, though are in touch
with the many indigenous people
the nomads that abound
the uncontacted groups that live
naked on the ground
the future isn’t cattle ranching
that’s a big mistake
the wilderness must be maintained
for everybody’s sake
Rex Tyler is a Poet, Campaigner, former owner of an organic shop of 30 years, and Public Speaker living in Berkhamsted, UK.