El Niño and heatwave impacts: Paraguay’s weather service confirmed a 74-year temperature record after a weekend heatwave, with Mariscal Estigarribia in the Chaco reaching 43.8°C, as extreme conditions also coincide with major storm damage reported across central and northern areas. Super El Niño storm damage: A powerful storm with winds up to 90 km/h affected at least 4,000 families, damaging homes, power infrastructure and crops in Caaguazú, San Pedro and Cordillera, with emergency teams responding. Biodiversity and forest protection: A new focus on Paraguay’s Atlantic Forest fragment highlights San Rafael as a key biodiversity area with hundreds of bird species, water regulation benefits and long-term carbon storage—while noting underfunded enforcement pressures. Wildlife conservation spotlight: Paraguay’s Bat Conservation Programme is rebuilding momentum ahead of Latin America’s Bat Day, using Guaraní identity and outreach to grow local support for bat protection. Sustainable procurement progress: Paraguay’s public procurement agency DNCP improved tracking of sustainable public procurement by adding sustainability clauses into e-government bidding and building a dashboard to measure uptake, identifying over 10,000 clauses in two years. Regional climate risk for children: UNICEF warned that 25.8 million children across Latin America and the Caribbean face very high El Niño-related rainfall risks, underlining the stakes for Paraguay’s broader region.