Right now consumed yet another important natural area up by the fire in Brazil.
not so long ago was the flames of the Amazon on everyone’s lips, but this time burn the fire even stronger, writes CNN.
the natural area called the Cerrado is home to 5 percent of the earth’s animal and plant life and is the most biodiverse of its kind.
the Cerrado extends over 200 million hectares of savannah and forest.
– There live more than 837 bird species, 120 krybdyrsarter, 150 amphibian species, 1200 species of fish, to 90,000 insects, 11.000 plant species and 199 of the different kinds of mammals, says a biologist at the University of Brasilia, Mercedes Bustamente.
a Great many of the species found only in the Cerrado, which now are being destroyed at an alarming high pace.
– We are losing about 700,000 hectares per year, says Oliveira Rosa from klimaorganisationen WWF Brazil to CNN.
Fires plaguing the Cerrado, a huge area in Brazil. It can have major consequences. Photo: Vânia R. Pivello
In relation to the peruvian Amazon, the Cerrado, however, significantly more exposed. About 50 percent of the Amazon is protected from fires, but only 8 percent of the Cerrado has the privilege.
– Relatively speaking, the Cerrado is much more threatened. It has more than three times as many losses as the Amazon, says Oliveira Rosa. the
in Total, Brazil has lost forest areas twice as large as the united kingdom, between 2001 and 2018. In all, it’s gone out of almost 54 million hectares of forest.
In a big way, the woods are cleared to make way for agriculture, including livestock production and soybean, not just in the Cerrado but in the whole of Brazil. Actually produced pretty much everything in Brazil’s growing sojabønneindustri in the Cerrado.
Deforestation is also the story of a brazilian agricultural sector that is getting bigger and bigger each year, and is one of the pillars of the country’s economic growth.
the Cerrado is also like Amazon, there are often picturesque was called the lungs of the world, a major supplier of carbon. Therefore it is not only biodiversity, it can go beyond, when the Cerrado is burned and felled. Scientists fear that the growing agriculture will have very high costs for natural sites such as the Cerrado and the Amazon.
– To affect biodiversity, losing species, chopping forests down and burn them to be able to grow crops just lays further to the climate crisis that affects us all, says Daniela Montalto, a lobbyist from Greenpeace.
Brazil’s president Jair Bolsonaro has not wanted to comment on the issue, writes CNN. The president has in the context of the Amazon, the fires frequently been criticized for not doing enough, or even to incite to continue deforestation as part of the continuous expansion of Brazil’s agriculture.
