The cerrado, one of the largest vegetation formations in Brazil, has been poorly studied. We present the first comprehensive list of the non-volant mammalian fauna and analyze its zoogeographic ...

Cerrado shows a floristically and geographically fairly uniform physiognomic gradient, varying from herbaceous, grassy, shrubby vegetation, through `orchard' and woodland almost to forest. This ...

In an article published in the journal Flora, researchers at São Paulo State University (UNESP) in Brazil examine some of the strategies developed over eons of evolution by plants in the Cerrado ...

The two sites included in the designation contain flora and fauna and key habitats that characterize the Cerrado – one of the world’s oldest and most diverse tropical ecosystems. For millennia, these ...

Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon fell by half last year as President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva's government strengthened environmental policing. However, clear-cutting in the Cerrado savanna ...

NEW YORK, September 19, 2023 – The World Bank and Banco do Brasil today announced a partnership to boost their joint support for sustainability solutions in the Amazon and Cerrado biomes. On the ...