The Peruaçu Caves in Brazil's Minas Gerais State have been designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site, recognized for their ...

Created in 1999, the Peruaçu Caves National Park in Minas Gerais covers an area of 56,448 hectares and encompasses three ...

A vulnerable biome. The Caatinga covers a tenth of Brazil’s landmass, or an area of about 862,000 square kilometers (333,000 square miles) straddling nine states, ...

Brazil is gearing up to showcase the best of its unique biomes and ecotourism experiences. View on euronews ...

“Brazil is not just made up of the Amazon, it has several giant biomes,” Paulo Bellonia, president of the NGO Save Cerrado, told Mongabay. “All of them are important, but the Cerrado is ...

Since it is an umbrella species that needs large territories to survive in the wild, protecting the jaguar has positive ...

According to the latest MapBiomas survey, the Cerrado has surpassed the Amazon as Brazil's most deforested biome in 2023 following the damages detected in the region known as Matopiba, which ...

Environment News: In 2024, Brazil saw a significant 32.4% decrease in deforestation across all its biomes, marking a crucial step in the fight against climate change. With ongoing efforts to ...

For thousands of years, plants have evolved in the presence of wildfires in the Cerrado, Brazil's savanna-like biome. Scientists at São Paulo State University (UNESP) studied the effect of smoke ...