---
id: twins/reforest-latam-tnc-gran-chaco-drone-restoration
about:
  depiction: twins/reforest-latam-tnc-gran-chaco-drone-restoration.jpg
  label: Gran Chaco drone reforestation pilot
  description: >-
    Pilot by The Nature Conservancy Argentina and the startup ReForest Latam
    that seeds native trees from drones on degraded farmland in Argentina's Gran
    Chaco.
  tags:
    - reforestation
    - drone seeding
    - gran chaco
    - argentina
    - native trees
twin:
  tier: 4
  place: 'Gran Chaco, Argentina'
  operational: pilot
  homepage: 'https://blog.nature.org/2026/08/17/reforesting-the-gran-chaco-with-drones/'
open:
  source: unknown
  data: unknown
  api: unknown
  participation: unknown
provenance:
  origin: agent
  sources:
    - title: Reforesting the Gran Chaco with Drones
      url: >-
        https://blog.nature.org/2026/08/17/reforesting-the-gran-chaco-with-drones/
  created: '2026-10-17'
  reviewed: '2026-10-17'
  reviewed_by: 'Claude, from the sources listed'
  status: draft
import:
  source: openai-linkedin-scrape 2026-10-17
  id: DT116
  kind: field_intervention
  family: enabling_technology_and_adjacent_work
  priority: supporting
  verified: false
  posts:
    - P073
  posters:
    - The Nature Conservancy
domains:
  - ecology
---
The pilot tests aerial seeding near Tostado (Santa Fe) and Bandera (Santiago del Estero).[^1] ReForest Latam supplies the drones and seed technology.[^1] The work is part of a TNC Argentina initiative carried out in partnership with the John Deere Foundation.[^1]

Drones drop biodegradable capsules holding native seeds and biostimulants.[^1] Sites are characterised beforehand with GIS, an ecosystem-analysis platform and AI, and flights are timed around expected rain.[^1] White carob is the main species, with yellow floss silk tree, guayacán and Santiago red quebracho.[^1] The pilot targets 13 hectares and about 8,000 trees.[^1] The wider project aims at 100,000 trees, and more than 300 hectares had already been planted with seedlings by hand.[^1]

Control plots are checked every 45 days.[^1] About 120 days after the flights the team compares seedlings in treated and untreated areas.[^1] As of August 2026 the drone seeding was still under test, and no germination or survival results had been published.[^1]