Most trees in the Amazon (90%), the Atlantic Forest (90%), or the Cerrado, the Brazilian savanna-like biome (60%), depend on ...

Brazil’s Forest Code, for example, requires landowners in the Amazon to maintain up to 80% of their land for native vegetation compared with just 20-35% in the Cerrado.

According to the latest MapBiomas survey, the Cerrado has surpassed the Amazon as Brazil's most deforested biome in 2023 following the damages detected in the region known as Matopiba, which ...

Deforestation in Brazil's Cerrado, the world's most species-rich savanna, rose 3% from August 2022 to July 2023 to 11,022 square kilometers (4,255.6 square miles), data from the country's space ...

The Cerrado, the world’s most biodiverse savanna, stretches 1.2 million square miles up the spine of Brazil, covering a fifth of the country.

A classification of cultivated pastures in the Brazilian Cerrado for sustainable intensification and savanna restoration. Ambio, 51 (5), 1219-1226. doi: 10.1007/s13280-021-01646-3 ...

Unlike Brazil’s Amazon Rainforest, the Cerrado lacks strong legal protections, and more than half of its native vegetation has already been lost to soy plantations and cattle ranching.

SAO PAULO – Deforestation in Brazil’s Cerrado region, a vast tropical savanna renowned for its rich biodiversity, increased sharply in 2023 and overtook that of the Amazon, according to a ...

The Brazilian cerrado lost 11,011 km² of native vegetation from August 2022 to July 2023, as per data from the Prodes Cerrado project, which monitors the biome by satellite.