The Importance of the Cerrado Region

In the new episode of Brazil Unfiltered, James Naylor Green talks to Isabel Figueiredo, an ecologist and coordinator of the Cerrado and Caatinga Program at the Institute of Society, Population and Nature (ISPN). With a Master's degree in Ecology from the University of Brasilia, she has worked for eighteen years on the conservation of the Cerrado with indigenous peoples and communities to promote sustainable uses of biodiversity. She coordinated the Small Grants Program in Brazil (PPP-ECOS) for 17 years, supporting community initiatives that generate socio-environmental benefits. On the show, they discuss the Cerrado, Brazil's midwestern portion which is vital to the economy and faces major environmental challenges.

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