Efforts bloom to save southern Brazil’s last butiá palm groves

Mongabay
May 24, 2022, 2:37 pm211 pts
The butiá landscapes of Brazil’s Rio Grande do Sul state are exotic, even by the standards of tropical forests. The palm trees that make up these forests, from the genus Butia, are 200 years old on average. But agriculture and unrestrained urbanization are the main threats to what remains of these southern…

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