O Financial Times argues that most environmental activists and experts do not questionthe need for agricultural development in the region (🇬🇧). “But some are questionI wonder if the plantation boom has gone too far and threatens the region’s unique ecological role,” he says. “Long a cause of environmentalists, the Cerrado issue is now on the radar of European supermarkets and retailers willing not to provide their consumers with food not linked to deforestation or soil degradation.”
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The newspaper highlights that the region is home to around 5% of the Earth's biodiversity. “But according to some scientists, there are already signs of degradation in the Cerrado.”
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- What is the Brazilian Cerrado? (oecho)
(🇬🇧): in English
