The Amazon burns. But another part of Brazil is being destroyed faster
CNN — The Amazon blazes have captured the attention of the world and its leaders, and for good reason – the destruction of one of the world’s major carbon stores could strike a devastating blow to the fight against climate change, and to the homes and livelihoods of indigenous communities. Brazil’s Cerrado – a “mosaic” habitat made up of savannah, grassland and forest – is the world’s most biodiverse such region, and spans around 200 million hectares. “In the last 10 years pretty much all of the expansion of soy within Brazil has happened in the Cerrado,” Toby Gardner, director of TRASE, told CNN. Nelson Almeida/AFP/Getty Images ‘Climate doesn’t have frontiers’ The destruction of the habitat is also bad news for climate change: the Cerrado, the WWF says, locks up a “deceptively large amount of carbon” in its deep root systems. “The Amazon rainforest is firmly established in the psyche of many for decades now, and rightly so – it’s suffering a desperate plight of its own,” Gardner told CNN.
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