The Federal Government launches today (September 15), in Brasília, the Action Plan to Prevent and Control Deforestation and Wildfires in the Cerrado Biome (PPCerrado).
The result of a joint effort involving nine ministries and the Civil House, the new plan is the political framework for the conservation and sustainable use of the most threatened biome in Brazil.
Similar to the PPCDAm (Action Plan to Prevent and Control Deforestation in the Legal Amazon, which reduced by more than 63% deforestation in the Amazon Rainforest in the last ten years), the PPCerrado aims to curb the destruction of the Brazilian savannah - one of the most rich in biodiversity on the planet.
Up to now, the territory of 2 million square kilometers, spread across nine Brazilian states, has lost 47% of its original forest cover. At the conference of the UN Convention on Climate Change (COP-15), held in Copenhagen in late 2009, Brazil committed to reduce by 40% emissions of greenhouse gases from deforestation in this biome.
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