By Shanna Hanbury Brazil’s environmental agency, IBAMA, approved a key step that could soon allow Petrobras, the nation’s ...

The world's largest wetland, Brazil’s Pantanal is home to around 5,000 jaguars and is the best place on earth to see the ...

It’s called the Cerrado, Portuguese for “closed,” and for nearly all of human history this vast tropical savanna in central Brazil seems to have been shut off from the rest of the world.

This policy brief outlines the implications of the EUDR for the protection of Brazilian family farmers, Indigenous peoples ...

and season of the year with the greatest total abundance of Coleoptera and the main families captured using a light trap in an area of cerrado sensu stricto in Planaltina/DF between June 2015 and May ...

BRICS tourism ministers met in Brasilia. The key outcome was the approval of the Cerrado Declaration, which consolidates the desire of the member countries to promote sustainable, inclusive and ...

Of this total, 58% is pasture (currently at 164.3 million hectares), according to a study by MapBiomas, a collaborative network made up of NGOs, universities and technology startups that maps land ...

The forest makes up 13% of Brazil's territory and is the third largest major vegetation formation in the country after Amazonia and the Cerrado (an area of woodland savannah in north-east Brazil).

In recent days, fires have intensified across the rainforest, Cerrado ... A map illustrating the number of wildfires across South America at present, showing a high concentration in Brazil.

“Species that aren’t characteristic of the Cerrado are being introduced in the restoration projects. Examples include ruderal plants [the first to colonize disturbed land]. The species involved are ...

Brazil’s cotton exports have risen sharply in the last decade due to booming output in the Cerrado, which has lost about half of ... that it was in the farm’s map,” he said. “Today it’s all crops, ...