As fires flare in Brazil’s Cerrado, heat-resistant seeds offer restoration lifeline

Mongabay
Nov 17, 2025, 5:21 am70 pts
Fire-resistant seeds offer promise, at a low cost, for restoring areas devastated by burning in Brazil’s Cerrado savanna, a project by biologist Giovana Cavenaghi Guimarães shows. Guimarães, a doctoral candidate at São Paulo State University (UNESP), focused on five species of Cerrado-native seeds,…

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