The Importance of Being Cerrado: Brazil's Other Huge, Endangered Ecosystem
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The Cerrado savanna has already lost 48% of its original vegetation and is shrinking faster than the Amazon rain forest. It could disappear almost entirely within a few decades.
Chris McGowan | Posted 05.25.2011