The Cerrado lost 11.011 km² of native vegetation from August 2022 to July 2023. According to data from the Prodes Cerrado project, which carries out satellite monitoring of the biome. The suppressed area is 3% higher than the previous result, in the same period, but from 2021 to 2022.
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The National Campaign in Defense of the Cerrado, which has existed since 2016, together with the Brazilian Semiarid Articulation, traditional peoples and communities, movements and entities linked to the defense of the environment launched this Monday (11) an action with the theme Cerrado and Caatinga, Brazil's heritage: present wealth, future inheritance.
Action wants Caatinga and Cerrado to be recognized as heritage Read more »
September 11th marks the day of the most biodiverse savannah on the planet: the Brazilian Cerrado. The biome occupies 24% of the national territory and is present in 11 states and the Federal District, ranging from Paraná to Rondônia, passing through São Paulo, Bahia and Maranhão.
Looking towards the Amazon threatens the survival of the Cerrado Read more »
The increase in deforestation recorded in the Cerrado reinforces the need for a specific plan, as already exists for the Amazon, to combat deforestation in the biome. The assessment was made by the non-governmental organization WWF-Brazil, following the release of data from the Real-Time Deforestation Detection System (Deter), from the National Institute for Space Research (Inpe), this Thursday (3).
Combating deforestation in the Cerrado requires a specific plan, warns WWF Read more »
The Amazon and Cerrado present opposite situations regarding deforestation. According to the National Institute for Space Research (Inpe), deforestation alerts reached a record in the Cerrado, the second largest biome in the country. In the Amazon, alerts reached the lowest rate in four years. 🌳
Deforestation in the Cerrado reached 491 thousand hectares in the first half of 2023, an area seven times larger than the city of Salvador. This number represents an increase of 28% compared to the same period last year, when almost 383 thousand hectares were deforested, according to data detected and confirmed by the SAD Cerrado (Cerrado Deforestation Alert System) released this Wednesday (18) by IPAM (Amazon Environmental Research Institute).
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Every year, 600 million liters of pesticides are released into the Cerrado, a biome that concentrated more than half (52%) of the area reserved for soybean planting in the entire country, in the 2020/2021 harvest, according to the National Supply Company. (Conab). At that time, soybean monoculture covered 38,5 million hectares. One hectare corresponds to the area of an official football field.
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While deforestation in the Amazon has fallen, the Cerrado lost – in April alone – 708,58 km² of vegetation, an area larger than the capital of Bahia, Salvador (693 km²).
Deforestation in the Cerrado breaks new record in April Read more »
Deforestation in the Cerrado reached 188,2 thousand hectares in the first quarter of this year. This number represents 35% more than that recorded in the first three months of the previous year, when 139,8 thousand hectares were deforested, according to data from SAD Cerrado (Cerrado Deforestation Alert System) released this Friday (14) . Despite the increase in the first quarter, the record of deforestation alerts for the month of March decreased compared to February this year (reduction of 31,9 thousand hectares). 🌳
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In Carta da Terra, published this week by Earth News, Lourival Sant'Anna talks about the impact of deforestation in the Cerrado and how it threatens the supply and quality of water in several Brazilian municipalities. 💧
