End of deforestation tracker for Brazil’s Cerrado an ‘incalculable loss’

Mongabay
Aug 19, 2021, 4:17 pm303 pts
The Brazilian Cerrado savanna, a global biodiversity hotspot that has already lost half of its area to crops and cattle, is at risk of no longer being monitored for deforestation as of the end of the year. The prospect of an end to the 20-year satellite monitoring program, blamed on a funding shortage at the…

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