Brazil’s Cerrado loses 13.9M hectares of riverbank vegetation
Brazil’s Cerrado biome lost 13.9 million hectares of native vegetation within 500 meters of rivers and other waterways between 1985 and 2025. This area accounts for more than a quarter (26.9%) of all native vegetation converted to other uses during that period. The data come from a study of the Cerrado released Thursday (Oct. 8) as part of MapBiomas Collection 11, which provides annual land-cover…
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