According to the latest MapBiomas survey, the Cerrado has surpassed the Amazon as Brazil's most deforested ... are beginning to realize its incredible biodiversity with over 10,000 plant species ...

Riverside forests in Brazil have facilitated continuous tree migration between the Amazon and Atlantic rainforests. DNA ...

Green shoots spring from ashes in Brazil's fire-resistant ... at the Chico Mendes Institute for Biodiversity Conservation, a government agency. The Cerrado's deep root system acts like a "pump ...

From Chaplin’s toothbrush mustache to Hogan’s handlebar, these men have become synonymous with their fluffy accessory. Now, the discovery of a creature in the grasslands of central Brazil adds another ...

At the same time, however, it is being cleared faster than the Amazon. “The Cerrado feeds billions of people from Brasilia to Beijing,” said Mauricio Voivodic, executive director of WWF-Brazil, “and ...

Through its Latin American reforestation strategy, BTG Pactual Timberland Investment Group (TIG) and impact adviser Conservation International (CI) are leading one of the largest-known restoration ...

The expansion of soy bean farms (plantations) has led to vast areas of deforestation and destruction of natural habitats, thereby driving the loss of biodiversity in some of the world’s most precious ...