BRAZILIAN CERRADO THREATENED BY AGRICULTURAL EXPANSION

Reported in BBC News:

Global hunger for soybeans 'destroying Brazil's Cerrado savanna' http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-46022184

It's one of the most biodiverse places in world - 40% of animal and plant species there can be found nowhere else on the planet.
WWF says an area the size of Greater London disappeared every two months between 2013 and 2015, making the Cerrado one of the most endangered ecosystems on the planet.
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