Deforestation threatens two globally important ecosystems in eastern Brazil.
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Species at Risk
CERRADO: Crowned Solitary Eagle (EN), Bare-faced Curassow (VU), Campo Miner (VU), Minas Gerais Tyrannulet (EN), Tropeiro Seedeater (VU), Chestnut Seedeater (VU), Marsh Seedeater (EN), Spanish Cedar (VU) and Dwarf Tinamou (EN); CAATINGA: Karimi's Fat-tailed Mouse Opossum (VU), Yellow-faced Siskin (VU)
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Carbon stored
79,105,466 mT*
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Partner
Fundação Pró-Natureza (FUNATURA)
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1,190,000 Proposed Acres Conserved by
Designation
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Project Cost: $1,730,593
1,190,000
Deforestation threatens two globally important ecosystems in eastern Brazil.
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Species at Risk
CERRADO: Crowned Solitary Eagle (EN), Bare-faced Curassow (VU), Campo Miner (VU), Minas Gerais Tyrannulet (EN), Tropeiro Seedeater (VU), Chestnut Seedeater (VU), Marsh Seedeater (EN), Spanish Cedar (VU) and Dwarf Tinamou (EN); CAATINGA: Karimi's Fat-tailed Mouse Opossum (VU), Yellow-faced Siskin (VU)
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Carbon stored
79,105,466 mT*
*(metric tons of CO2 equivalents) -
Partner
Fundação Pró-Natureza (FUNATURA)
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1,190,000 Proposed Acres Conserved by
Designation
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Project Cost: £1,373,486
1,190,000
This project will prevent emissions comparable to
gas-powered automobiles driven for one year
East of the Brazilian Amazon rainforest lies the Cerrado, the Earth’s most biodiverse tropical savanna, which hosts 5% of the world’s plants and animals within 505 million acres. Nearly half of its 11,000 plant species are found nowhere else in the world, and they support 860 species of birds and over 500 mammal, reptile and amphibian species. Today, the Cerrado faces the world’s most aggressive frontier for soy production and cattle grazing. These activities are supported by illegal deforestation, destroying 20% of the biome’s tree cover since 2020.
The rare dry to semi-arid shrubland and thorn forest of the adjacent Caatinga faces comparable threats from agricultural expansion as well as from mining and climate change. This unique biome holds significant numbers of plant and bird species found only here in northeastern Brazil. Among the endangered birds found in the region are the Dwarf Tinamou, Marsh Seedeater, Minas Gerais Tyrannulet and Crowned Solitary Eagle.
The government of Brazil has requested support from Rainforest Trust’s partner, Fundação Pró-Natureza (FUNATURA), to expand and create protected areas in these two critical biomes. Together, we will limit deforestation by protecting a minimum of 1,190,000 acres across three sites. In the Cerrado, we propose a 121,200-acre expansion of the Veredas do Peruaçu State Park. In the Caatinga, the project comprises a 366,200-acre expansion of the Serra da Capivara National Park and creation of the new 780,000-acre Jerumenha protected area.
Header photo: Crowned Solitary Eagle or Chaco Eagle, by Diego Grandi
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Marsh Seedeater, by Pablo Rodriguez Merkel
Minas Gerais Tyrannulet, by Hector Bottai/Wikipedia/CC
Cerrado, Brazil, Buritis palm trees in wetlands, by Duartec65
Serra da Capivara National Park, by Carlos Santos Rodapebr
Typical Cerrado landscape, Central Brazil, by Vitormarigo
Holed stone monument in the Serra da Capivara National Park, Brazil, by Carlos Santos Rodapebr
Protect three extraordinary sites to thwart threats in Brazil
Increasing the area of Veredas do Peruaçu State Park by 2.6 times will protect unique wetlands at the headwaters of the Peruaçu River that are thus far intact. Ensuring continued river flow during an extended regional water crisis is vital to the health of this rare ecosystem.
The expansion of Serra da Capivara National Park plans to grant the highest level of national protection to highly intact, old-growth forest in the Caatinga. This remote area is also recognized as a UNESCO World Heritage Site for archaeological sites that hold some of the oldest evidence of human presence in the Americas. The Jerumenha protected area will safeguard another essential water resource and increase the strictly protected area in the Cerrado-Caatinga transition zone by 86.5%.
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