ABOVE: Two fires in Argentina burned 90 percent of the San Cayetano Provincial Park, which houses a field station that has carried out long-term monitoring of local primates for decades.
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Editor’s note: The following story contains graphic images of animals that died in the fires.
Amid a record year for fires across South America, two blazes have spiraled out of control in Argentina, scorching a state park in the northeastern province of Corrientes. Within the park, an ecological field station that has carried out long-term primate research for decades narrowly escaped the flames, but roughly half of the park’s resident howler monkeys have likely died.
San Cayetano Provincial Park was only established in 2015, but the Estación Biológica Corrientes (EBCo)—a field station managed by the country’s National Council for Scientific and Technical Research—first opened in 1975. While it has previously changed hands and names, since 2001 the station has ...
