Overview

• Judge Guillermo Ottaviano of San Isidro’s Civil and Commercial Court No. 13 issued precautionary measures that immediately protect wetlands and local wildlife.
• The order suspends any work or activity that could alter or damage the Delta del Paraná wetlands, including the planned wildlife corridor, until a final ruling or an approved cumulative EIA.
• Chemical castration via contraceptive injections is prohibited, and fumigations deemed harmful to the wetland environment are banned.
• The case was brought by the Asociación Civil ‘Callejero Casa Quiere,’ while residents’ group La Voz de los Carpinchos reported about 46 recent capybara deaths from land clearing and vehicle strikes.
• Nordelta had advanced a 50-hectare corridor with ramps and refuges, and earlier government proposals to relocate or contraceptively manage capybaras now face legal constraints.