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Calculated Shard: 51 (from laksa077)

2. Crawled Status Check

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curl -X POST \
  'http://laksa051.int.ahrefs:8124/' \
  -H 'Content-Type: text/plain' \
  -H 'X-ClickHouse-Database: crawler3' \
  -H 'Authorization: Basic YXBpOg==' \
  -d 'SELECT getAhrefsURLFromUnparsed(src_unparsed) AS found_url, ifNull(toUnixTimestamp(download_stamp), 0) AS crawl_time, ifNull(toUnixTimestamp(props_url_first_seen), 0) AS first_indexed_time, download_http_code AS http_code, src_unparsed AS src_unparsed, src_root_hash AS src_root_hash, history_drop_reason AS history_drop_reason, meta_title AS meta_title, meta_descriptions AS meta_descriptions, attrs_boilerpipe_text AS attrs_boilerpipe_text, attrs_markdown AS attrs_markdown, attrs_readable_markdown AS attrs_readable_markdown, meta_canonical AS meta_canonical FROM crawler3.page_info_local FINAL PREWHERE (src_root_hash, src_unparsed) IN ((getAhrefsRootHashFromUnparsed(getAhrefsUnparsedNoserviceFromURL(\'https://www.cnn.com/2019/09/22/americas/brazil-cerrado-soy-intl/index.html\')), getAhrefsUnparsedNoserviceFromURL(\'https://www.cnn.com/2019/09/22/americas/brazil-cerrado-soy-intl/index.html\'))) FORMAT JSONEachRow'

Response:

{"found_url":"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2019\/09\/22\/americas\/brazil-cerrado-soy-intl\/index.html","crawl_time":1775628059,"first_indexed_time":1569125715,"http_code":200,"src_unparsed":"com,cnn!www,\/2019\/09\/22\/americas\/brazil-cerrado-soy-intl\/index.html s443","src_root_hash":"2312100192101524051","history_drop_reason":null,"meta_title":"The Amazon burns. But another part of Brazil is being destroyed faster | CNN","meta_descriptions":["The Amazon blazes have captured the attention of the world and its leaders, and for good reason – the destruction of one of the world’s major carbon stores could strike a devastating blow to the fight against climate change, and to the homes and livelihoods of indigenous communities."],"attrs_boilerpipe_text":"CNN\n — \nThe\nAmazon blazes\nhave captured the attention of the world and its\nleaders\n, and for good reason – the destruction of one of the world’s major carbon stores could strike a devastating blow to the fight against climate change, and to the homes and livelihoods of\nindigenous communities\n.\nBut just miles away, another part of Brazil, home to 5% of the planet’s plants and animals, and a carbon store of its own, is being destroyed at a faster rate.\nBrazil’s Cerrado – a “mosaic” habitat made up of savannah, grassland and forest – is the world’s most biodiverse such region, and spans around 200 million hectares.\nAd Feedback\nAd Feedback\n“It is estimated that the biome has 837 species of birds, 120 of reptiles, 150 of amphibians, 1,200 thousand fish, 90,000 insects, 199 types of mammals,” Mercedes Bustamante, a biologist at the University of Brasilia told CNN.\nMore than 4,800 species are endemic – including giant otters, tapirs and jaguars – and of more than 11,000 plant species found in the Cerrado, nearly half are found nowhere else on earth, according to the World Wildlife Foundation.\nThe Cerrado is half the size of the Amazon and is 50% deforested, according to Edegar de Oliveira Rosa, director of Conservation and Restoration of Ecosystems at WWF-Brazil. “We are losing around 700,000 hectares per year,” he told CNN.\nLike in the Amazon, Cerrado habitats are being cleared because of\nglobal demand for meat\n– to make way for cattle ranches, and later converted to grow soy which is used to feed livestock or exported to other parts of the world.\nDeforestation is not new, and it doesn’t just happen in Brazil. But as global demand for meat soars, and as China turns to Brazil for its supply of soybeans amid the trade war with the US, experts worry that Brazil’s agricultural boom will come at the cost of habitats like the Cerrado.\nAnalysis from TRASE, an initiative that tracks transparency in commodity supply chains, found that in 2018 Brazil, Argentina and Paraguay produced 50% of the world’s soy, up from 3% half a century ago.\n“In the last 10 years pretty much all of the expansion of soy within Brazil has happened in the Cerrado,” Toby Gardner, director of TRASE, told CNN. “There’s really not much of the Cerrado left,” he added.\nThe area has fewer protections than the Amazon, where according to de Oliviera Rosa, around 50% of land remains protected. In contrast, de Oliviera Rosa added, around 8% of the Cerrado is protected.\n“In absolute terms, about the same area has been cleared, but in relative terms, the Cerrado is much more threatened, with more than three times more loss than the Amazon,” Gardner told CNN.\nBrazilian President Jair Bolsonaro’s office declined to comment, referring CNN to the environment ministry. Officials there did not respond to CNN’s request for comment.\nThe destruction of the habitat is also bad news for climate change: the Cerrado, the WWF says, locks up a “deceptively large amount of carbon” in its deep root systems.\n“It is a forest in a different way – it is an upside-down forest, because a lot of the biomass is underground,” de Oliviera Rosa told CNN.\nIn a recent report, Greenpeace suggested that the remaining original vegetation of the region contains a carbon store of equivalent to 13.7 gigatonnes of equivalent carbon dioxide.\nThe Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has\nwarned\nthat while forests are important carbon sinks, their ability to capture carbon could continue to decrease depending on human actions.\nDeforestation and agriculture fuel global warming, by weakening land’s capacity to draw down carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and emitting vast amounts of greenhouse gases.\n“The climate doesn’t have frontiers. Affecting biodiversity, losing species, releasing carbon chopping down forests, and burning them to grow crops adds to the climate crisis that affects us all,” Daniela Montalto, a forest campaigner for Greenpeace, told CNN.\nWater resources are also suffering; according to the WWF, of 12 major hydrological regions in Brazil, six begin in the Cerrado.\n“The Amazon rainforest is firmly established in the psyche of many for decades now, and rightly so – it’s suffering a desperate plight of its own,” Gardner told CNN.\n“But there are other ecosystems that are disappearing, and we learn about what they are too late.”\nCNN’s Isabelle Gerretsen contributed to this report.","attrs_markdown":"Thank You\\!\n\nYour effort and contribution in providing this feedback is much appreciated.\n\nClose\n\nAd Feedback\n\n[World](https:\/\/cnn.com\/world)\n\n[Africa](https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/world\/africa)\n\n[Americas](https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/world\/americas)\n\n[Asia](https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/world\/asia)\n\n[Australia](https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/world\/australia)\n\n[China](https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/world\/china)\n\n[Europe](https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/world\/europe)\n\n[India](https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/world\/india)\n\n[Middle East](https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/world\/middle-east)\n\n[United Kingdom](https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/world\/united-kingdom)\n\n[More]()\n\n[Africa](https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/world\/africa)   [Americas](https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/world\/americas)   [Asia](https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/world\/asia)   [Australia](https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/world\/australia)   [China](https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/world\/china)   [Europe](https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/world\/europe)   [India](https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/world\/india)   [Middle East](https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/world\/middle-east)   [United Kingdom](https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/world\/united-kingdom)\n\n[Watch](https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/subscription\/all-access)   [Listen](https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/audio)\n\nSubscribe\n\nSign in\n\nMy Account\n\n- [Settings](https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/account\/settings)\n- [Newsletters](https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/newsletters)\n- [Topics you follow](https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/follow?iid=fw_var-nav)\n- [Sign out](https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2019\/09\/22\/americas\/brazil-cerrado-soy-intl\/index.html)\n\nYour CNN account Sign in to your CNN account\n***\nSign in\n\nMy Account\n\n- [Settings](https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/account\/settings)\n- [Newsletters](https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/newsletters)\n- [Topics you follow](https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/follow?iid=fw_var-nav)\n- [Sign out](https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2019\/09\/22\/americas\/brazil-cerrado-soy-intl\/index.html)\n\nYour CNN account Sign in to your CNN account\n***\n[Listen](https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/audio)   [Watch](https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/subscription\/all-access)\n***\nEdition\n\n[US](https:\/\/us.cnn.com\/?hpt=header_edition-picker)\n\n[International](https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/?hpt=header_edition-picker)\n\n[Arabic](https:\/\/arabic.cnn.com\/?hpt=header_edition-picker)\n\n[Español](https:\/\/cnnespanol.cnn.com\/?hpt=header_edition-picker)\n\nEdition\n\n- [US](https:\/\/us.cnn.com\/?hpt=header_edition-picker)\n- [International](https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/?hpt=header_edition-picker)\n- [Arabic](https:\/\/arabic.cnn.com\/?hpt=header_edition-picker)\n- [Español](https:\/\/cnnespanol.cnn.com\/?hpt=header_edition-picker)\n***\n[Africa](https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/world\/africa)\n\n[Americas](https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/world\/americas)\n\n[Asia](https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/world\/asia)\n\n[Australia](https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/world\/australia)\n\n[China](https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/world\/china)\n\n[Europe](https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/world\/europe)\n\n[India](https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/world\/india)\n\n[Middle East](https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/world\/middle-east)\n\n[United Kingdom](https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/world\/united-kingdom)\n***\nFollow CNN\n\nDownload the CNN App\n***\n\n- [US](https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/us)\n  - 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But another part of Brazil is being destroyed faster\nBy Amy Woodyatt, CNN\n\n4 min read\n\nUpdated 12:20 AM EDT, Sun September 22, 2019\n\nLink Copied\\!\n\n![amazon fires indigenous people impact npw pkg vpx\\_00012925.jpg](https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/media\/sites\/cnn\/cnn-fallback-image.jpg)\n\nVideo Ad Feedback\n\nAmazon fires threaten to displace indigenous community\n\n02:41   • Source: [CNN](https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/)\n\nWorld News  10 videos\n\n![videoframe\\_1260420.png](https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/media\/sites\/cnn\/cnn-fallback-image.jpg)\n\nVideo Ad Feedback\n\nPope Leo celebrates Easter Sunday Mass at St. Peter's Square\n\n02:11\n\nNow playing\n\n• Source: [CNN](https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/)\n\n![apogee raise burn 2.jpg](https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/media\/sites\/cnn\/cnn-fallback-image.jpg)\n\nVideo Ad Feedback\n\nNASA footage of Artemis II burn reveals stunning views of Earth\n\n01:00\n\nNow playing\n\n• Source: [CNN](https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/)\n\n![rio 1.jpg](https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/media\/sites\/cnn\/cnn-fallback-image.jpg)\n\nVideo Ad Feedback\n\nReforesting Rio de Janeiro\n\n04:00\n\nNow playing\n\n• Source: [CNN](https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/)\n\n![amazon fires indigenous people impact npw pkg vpx\\_00012925.jpg](https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/media\/sites\/cnn\/cnn-fallback-image.jpg)\n\nVideo Ad Feedback\n\nAmazon fires threaten to displace indigenous community\n\n02:41\n\nNow playing\n\n• Source: [CNN](https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/)\n\n![22519097 - 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But as global demand for meat soars, and as China turns to Brazil for its supply of soybeans amid the trade war with the US, experts worry that Brazil’s agricultural boom will come at the cost of habitats like the Cerrado.\n\n![Aerial view taken showing a native Cerrado savanna in Formosa do Rio Preto, western Bahia state.](https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/media\/sites\/cnn\/cnn-fallback-image.jpg)\n\nAerial view taken showing a native Cerrado savanna in Formosa do Rio Preto, western Bahia state.\n\nNelson Almeida\/AFP\/Getty Images\n\nAnalysis from TRASE, an initiative that tracks transparency in commodity supply chains, found that in 2018 Brazil, Argentina and Paraguay produced 50% of the world’s soy, up from 3% half a century ago.\n\n“In the last 10 years pretty much all of the expansion of soy within Brazil has happened in the Cerrado,” Toby Gardner, director of TRASE, told CNN. “There’s really not much of the Cerrado left,” he added.\n\nThe area has fewer protections than the Amazon, where according to de Oliviera Rosa, around 50% of land remains protected. In contrast, de Oliviera Rosa added, around 8% of the Cerrado is protected.\n\n“In absolute terms, about the same area has been cleared, but in relative terms, the Cerrado is much more threatened, with more than three times more loss than the Amazon,” Gardner told CNN.\n\nBrazilian President Jair Bolsonaro’s office declined to comment, referring CNN to the environment ministry. Officials there did not respond to CNN’s request for comment.\n\n![Agriculture fields in Formosa do Rio Preto, western Bahia state. Native vegetation is often cleared for farming and soy crops.](https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/media\/sites\/cnn\/cnn-fallback-image.jpg)\n\nAgriculture fields in Formosa do Rio Preto, western Bahia state. Native vegetation is often cleared for farming and soy crops.\n\nNelson Almeida\/AFP\/Getty Images\n## ‘Climate doesn’t have frontiers’\nThe destruction of the habitat is also bad news for climate change: the Cerrado, the WWF says, locks up a “deceptively large amount of carbon” in its deep root systems.\n\n“It is a forest in a different way – it is an upside-down forest, because a lot of the biomass is underground,” de Oliviera Rosa told CNN.\n\nIn a recent report, Greenpeace suggested that the remaining original vegetation of the region contains a carbon store of equivalent to 13.7 gigatonnes of equivalent carbon dioxide.\n\nThe Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has [warned](https:\/\/cnn.com\/2019\/08\/08\/world\/ipcc-report-land-climate-crisis-sci-intl\/index.html) that while forests are important carbon sinks, their ability to capture carbon could continue to decrease depending on human actions.\n\nDeforestation and agriculture fuel global warming, by weakening land’s capacity to draw down carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and emitting vast amounts of greenhouse gases.\n\n“The climate doesn’t have frontiers. Affecting biodiversity, losing species, releasing carbon chopping down forests, and burning them to grow crops adds to the climate crisis that affects us all,” Daniela Montalto, a forest campaigner for Greenpeace, told CNN.\n\n![Herbicide is sprayed on a soybean field in the Cerrado plains near Campo Verde, Mato Grosso state. The neighboring Pantanal area, a sanctuary of biodiversity, is presently at risk because of the intensive culture of soybean and the deforestation, scientists said. ](https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/media\/sites\/cnn\/cnn-fallback-image.jpg)\n\nHerbicide is sprayed on a soybean field in the Cerrado plains near Campo Verde, Mato Grosso state. The neighboring Pantanal area, a sanctuary of biodiversity, is presently at risk because of the intensive culture of soybean and the deforestation, scientists said.\n\nYasuyoshi Chiba\/AFP\/Getty Images\n\nWater resources are also suffering; according to the WWF, of 12 major hydrological regions in Brazil, six begin in the Cerrado.\n\n“The Amazon rainforest is firmly established in the psyche of many for decades now, and rightly so – it’s suffering a desperate plight of its own,” Gardner told CNN.\n\n“But there are other ecosystems that are disappearing, and we learn about what they are too late.”\n\nCNN’s Isabelle Gerretsen contributed to this report.\n\nAd Feedback\n\nAd Feedback\n\nAd Feedback\n\nSubscribe\n\nSign in\n\nMy Account\n\n- [Settings](https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/account\/settings)\n- [Newsletters](https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/newsletters)\n- [Topics you follow](https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/follow?iid=fw_var-nav)\n- [Sign out](https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2019\/09\/22\/americas\/brazil-cerrado-soy-intl\/index.html)\n\nYour CNN account Sign in to your CNN account\n***\n[Listen](https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/audio)   [Watch](https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/watch)\n***\n- [US](https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/us)\n  - 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But as global demand for meat soars, and as China turns to Brazil for its supply of soybeans amid the trade war with the US, experts worry that Brazil’s agricultural boom will come at the cost of habitats like the Cerrado.\n\nAnalysis from TRASE, an initiative that tracks transparency in commodity supply chains, found that in 2018 Brazil, Argentina and Paraguay produced 50% of the world’s soy, up from 3% half a century ago.\n\n“In the last 10 years pretty much all of the expansion of soy within Brazil has happened in the Cerrado,” Toby Gardner, director of TRASE, told CNN. “There’s really not much of the Cerrado left,” he added.\n\nThe area has fewer protections than the Amazon, where according to de Oliviera Rosa, around 50% of land remains protected. In contrast, de Oliviera Rosa added, around 8% of the Cerrado is protected.\n\n“In absolute terms, about the same area has been cleared, but in relative terms, the Cerrado is much more threatened, with more than three times more loss than the Amazon,” Gardner told CNN.\n\nBrazilian President Jair Bolsonaro’s office declined to comment, referring CNN to the environment ministry. 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Boilerpipe Text	CNN — The Amazon blazes have captured the attention of the world and its leaders , and for good reason – the destruction of one of the world’s major carbon stores could strike a devastating blow to the fight against climate change, and to the homes and livelihoods of indigenous communities . But just miles away, another part of Brazil, home to 5% of the planet’s plants and animals, and a carbon store of its own, is being destroyed at a faster rate. Brazil’s Cerrado – a “mosaic” habitat made up of savannah, grassland and forest – is the world’s most biodiverse such region, and spans around 200 million hectares. Ad Feedback Ad Feedback “It is estimated that the biome has 837 species of birds, 120 of reptiles, 150 of amphibians, 1,200 thousand fish, 90,000 insects, 199 types of mammals,” Mercedes Bustamante, a biologist at the University of Brasilia told CNN. More than 4,800 species are endemic – including giant otters, tapirs and jaguars – and of more than 11,000 plant species found in the Cerrado, nearly half are found nowhere else on earth, according to the World Wildlife Foundation. The Cerrado is half the size of the Amazon and is 50% deforested, according to Edegar de Oliveira Rosa, director of Conservation and Restoration of Ecosystems at WWF-Brazil. “We are losing around 700,000 hectares per year,” he told CNN. Like in the Amazon, Cerrado habitats are being cleared because of global demand for meat – to make way for cattle ranches, and later converted to grow soy which is used to feed livestock or exported to other parts of the world. Deforestation is not new, and it doesn’t just happen in Brazil. But as global demand for meat soars, and as China turns to Brazil for its supply of soybeans amid the trade war with the US, experts worry that Brazil’s agricultural boom will come at the cost of habitats like the Cerrado. Analysis from TRASE, an initiative that tracks transparency in commodity supply chains, found that in 2018 Brazil, Argentina and Paraguay produced 50% of the world’s soy, up from 3% half a century ago. “In the last 10 years pretty much all of the expansion of soy within Brazil has happened in the Cerrado,” Toby Gardner, director of TRASE, told CNN. “There’s really not much of the Cerrado left,” he added. The area has fewer protections than the Amazon, where according to de Oliviera Rosa, around 50% of land remains protected. In contrast, de Oliviera Rosa added, around 8% of the Cerrado is protected. “In absolute terms, about the same area has been cleared, but in relative terms, the Cerrado is much more threatened, with more than three times more loss than the Amazon,” Gardner told CNN. Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro’s office declined to comment, referring CNN to the environment ministry. Officials there did not respond to CNN’s request for comment. The destruction of the habitat is also bad news for climate change: the Cerrado, the WWF says, locks up a “deceptively large amount of carbon” in its deep root systems. “It is a forest in a different way – it is an upside-down forest, because a lot of the biomass is underground,” de Oliviera Rosa told CNN. In a recent report, Greenpeace suggested that the remaining original vegetation of the region contains a carbon store of equivalent to 13.7 gigatonnes of equivalent carbon dioxide. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has warned that while forests are important carbon sinks, their ability to capture carbon could continue to decrease depending on human actions. Deforestation and agriculture fuel global warming, by weakening land’s capacity to draw down carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and emitting vast amounts of greenhouse gases. “The climate doesn’t have frontiers. Affecting biodiversity, losing species, releasing carbon chopping down forests, and burning them to grow crops adds to the climate crisis that affects us all,” Daniela Montalto, a forest campaigner for Greenpeace, told CNN. Water resources are also suffering; according to the WWF, of 12 major hydrological regions in Brazil, six begin in the Cerrado. “The Amazon rainforest is firmly established in the psyche of many for decades now, and rightly so – it’s suffering a desperate plight of its own,” Gardner told CNN. “But there are other ecosystems that are disappearing, and we learn about what they are too late.” CNN’s Isabelle Gerretsen contributed to this report.
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But another part of Brazil is being destroyed faster By Amy Woodyatt, CNN 4 min read Updated 12:20 AM EDT, Sun September 22, 2019 Link Copied\! ![amazon fires indigenous people impact npw pkg vpx\_00012925.jpg](https://www.cnn.com/media/sites/cnn/cnn-fallback-image.jpg) Video Ad Feedback Amazon fires threaten to displace indigenous community 02:41 • Source: [CNN](https://www.cnn.com/) World News 10 videos ![videoframe\_1260420.png](https://www.cnn.com/media/sites/cnn/cnn-fallback-image.jpg) Video Ad Feedback Pope Leo celebrates Easter Sunday Mass at St. Peter's Square 02:11 Now playing • Source: [CNN](https://www.cnn.com/) ![apogee raise burn 2.jpg](https://www.cnn.com/media/sites/cnn/cnn-fallback-image.jpg) Video Ad Feedback NASA footage of Artemis II burn reveals stunning views of Earth 01:00 Now playing • Source: [CNN](https://www.cnn.com/) ![rio 1.jpg](https://www.cnn.com/media/sites/cnn/cnn-fallback-image.jpg) Video Ad Feedback Reforesting Rio de Janeiro 04:00 Now playing • Source: [CNN](https://www.cnn.com/) ![amazon fires indigenous people impact npw pkg vpx\_00012925.jpg](https://www.cnn.com/media/sites/cnn/cnn-fallback-image.jpg) Video Ad Feedback Amazon fires threaten to displace indigenous community 02:41 Now playing • Source: [CNN](https://www.cnn.com/) ![22519097 - CLEAN\_USKhargIslandStri.00\_00\_38\_03.Still001.jpg](https://www.cnn.com/media/sites/cnn/cnn-fallback-image.jpg) Video Ad Feedback US strikes military targets on Iran's Kharg Island 00:39 Now playing • Source: [CNN](https://www.cnn.com/) ![thumbnail istanbul shooting 1.jpg](https://www.cnn.com/media/sites/cnn/cnn-fallback-image.jpg) Video Ad Feedback Shooting near Israeli consulate in Istanbul 00:39 Now playing • Source: [CNN](https://www.cnn.com/) ![118378\_ChinaSCSLand\_Horizontal\_Thumb.jpg](https://www.cnn.com/media/sites/cnn/cnn-fallback-image.jpg) Video Ad Feedback Will China arm its newest manmade island? 01:34 Now playing • Source: [CNN](https://www.cnn.com/) ![118534\_AmanpourIranReflection 16x9 Clean Thumb.jpg](https://www.cnn.com/media/sites/cnn/cnn-fallback-image.jpg) Video Ad Feedback Amanpour looks back at career covering Iran 02:16 Now playing • Source: [CNN](https://www.cnn.com/) ![20260405-gps\_split 3 .jpg](https://www.cnn.com/media/sites/cnn/cnn-fallback-image.jpg) Video Ad Feedback Analysts react to Trump’s social media post on Iran 05:02 Now playing • Source: [CNN](https://www.cnn.com/) ![SciuttoLatest thumb.jpg](https://www.cnn.com/media/sites/cnn/cnn-fallback-image.jpg) Video Ad Feedback How the US military rescued the fighter jet crew member who crashed in Iran 01:08 Now playing • Source: [CNN](https://www.cnn.com/) ![videoframe\_1260420.png](https://www.cnn.com/media/sites/cnn/cnn-fallback-image.jpg) Video Ad Feedback Pope Leo celebrates Easter Sunday Mass at St. Peter's Square 02:11 Now playing • Source: [CNN](https://www.cnn.com/) ![apogee raise burn 2.jpg](https://www.cnn.com/media/sites/cnn/cnn-fallback-image.jpg) Video Ad Feedback NASA footage of Artemis II burn reveals stunning views of Earth 01:00 Now playing • Source: [CNN](https://www.cnn.com/) ![rio 1.jpg](https://www.cnn.com/media/sites/cnn/cnn-fallback-image.jpg) Video Ad Feedback Reforesting Rio de Janeiro 04:00 Now playing • Source: [CNN](https://www.cnn.com/) ![amazon fires indigenous people impact npw pkg vpx\_00012925.jpg](https://www.cnn.com/media/sites/cnn/cnn-fallback-image.jpg) Video Ad Feedback Amazon fires threaten to displace indigenous community 02:41 Now playing • Source: [CNN](https://www.cnn.com/) ![22519097 - CLEAN\_USKhargIslandStri.00\_00\_38\_03.Still001.jpg](https://www.cnn.com/media/sites/cnn/cnn-fallback-image.jpg) Video Ad Feedback US strikes military targets on Iran's Kharg Island 00:39 Now playing • Source: [CNN](https://www.cnn.com/) ![thumbnail istanbul shooting 1.jpg](https://www.cnn.com/media/sites/cnn/cnn-fallback-image.jpg) Video Ad Feedback Shooting near Israeli consulate in Istanbul 00:39 Now playing • Source: [CNN](https://www.cnn.com/) See more videos CNN — The [Amazon blazes](https://cnn.com/2019/08/22/world/amazon-rainforest-environment-fire-trnd/index.html) have captured the attention of the world and its [leaders](https://cnn.com/2019/08/28/politics/donald-trump-amazon-fire-aid-g7/index.html), and for good reason – the destruction of one of the world’s major carbon stores could strike a devastating blow to the fight against climate change, and to the homes and livelihoods of [indigenous communities](https://edition.cnn.com/2019/08/29/americas/amazon-rainforest-fires-indigenous-community/index.html). But just miles away, another part of Brazil, home to 5% of the planet’s plants and animals, and a carbon store of its own, is being destroyed at a faster rate. Brazil’s Cerrado – a “mosaic” habitat made up of savannah, grassland and forest – is the world’s most biodiverse such region, and spans around 200 million hectares. Ad Feedback Ad Feedback “It is estimated that the biome has 837 species of birds, 120 of reptiles, 150 of amphibians, 1,200 thousand fish, 90,000 insects, 199 types of mammals,” Mercedes Bustamante, a biologist at the University of Brasilia told CNN. ![Native Cerrado is being cleared to make way for agriculture.](https://www.cnn.com/media/sites/cnn/cnn-fallback-image.jpg) Native Cerrado is being cleared to make way for agriculture. Nelson Almedia/AFP/Getty Images More than 4,800 species are endemic – including giant otters, tapirs and jaguars – and of more than 11,000 plant species found in the Cerrado, nearly half are found nowhere else on earth, according to the World Wildlife Foundation. The Cerrado is half the size of the Amazon and is 50% deforested, according to Edegar de Oliveira Rosa, director of Conservation and Restoration of Ecosystems at WWF-Brazil. “We are losing around 700,000 hectares per year,” he told CNN. Like in the Amazon, Cerrado habitats are being cleared because of [global demand for meat](https://cnn.com/2019/08/23/americas/brazil-beef-amazon-rainforest-fire-intl/index.html) – to make way for cattle ranches, and later converted to grow soy which is used to feed livestock or exported to other parts of the world. Deforestation is not new, and it doesn’t just happen in Brazil. But as global demand for meat soars, and as China turns to Brazil for its supply of soybeans amid the trade war with the US, experts worry that Brazil’s agricultural boom will come at the cost of habitats like the Cerrado. ![Aerial view taken showing a native Cerrado savanna in Formosa do Rio Preto, western Bahia state.](https://www.cnn.com/media/sites/cnn/cnn-fallback-image.jpg) Aerial view taken showing a native Cerrado savanna in Formosa do Rio Preto, western Bahia state. Nelson Almeida/AFP/Getty Images Analysis from TRASE, an initiative that tracks transparency in commodity supply chains, found that in 2018 Brazil, Argentina and Paraguay produced 50% of the world’s soy, up from 3% half a century ago. “In the last 10 years pretty much all of the expansion of soy within Brazil has happened in the Cerrado,” Toby Gardner, director of TRASE, told CNN. “There’s really not much of the Cerrado left,” he added. The area has fewer protections than the Amazon, where according to de Oliviera Rosa, around 50% of land remains protected. In contrast, de Oliviera Rosa added, around 8% of the Cerrado is protected. “In absolute terms, about the same area has been cleared, but in relative terms, the Cerrado is much more threatened, with more than three times more loss than the Amazon,” Gardner told CNN. Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro’s office declined to comment, referring CNN to the environment ministry. Officials there did not respond to CNN’s request for comment. ![Agriculture fields in Formosa do Rio Preto, western Bahia state. Native vegetation is often cleared for farming and soy crops.](https://www.cnn.com/media/sites/cnn/cnn-fallback-image.jpg) Agriculture fields in Formosa do Rio Preto, western Bahia state. Native vegetation is often cleared for farming and soy crops. Nelson Almeida/AFP/Getty Images ## ‘Climate doesn’t have frontiers’ The destruction of the habitat is also bad news for climate change: the Cerrado, the WWF says, locks up a “deceptively large amount of carbon” in its deep root systems. “It is a forest in a different way – it is an upside-down forest, because a lot of the biomass is underground,” de Oliviera Rosa told CNN. In a recent report, Greenpeace suggested that the remaining original vegetation of the region contains a carbon store of equivalent to 13.7 gigatonnes of equivalent carbon dioxide. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has [warned](https://cnn.com/2019/08/08/world/ipcc-report-land-climate-crisis-sci-intl/index.html) that while forests are important carbon sinks, their ability to capture carbon could continue to decrease depending on human actions. Deforestation and agriculture fuel global warming, by weakening land’s capacity to draw down carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and emitting vast amounts of greenhouse gases. “The climate doesn’t have frontiers. Affecting biodiversity, losing species, releasing carbon chopping down forests, and burning them to grow crops adds to the climate crisis that affects us all,” Daniela Montalto, a forest campaigner for Greenpeace, told CNN. ![Herbicide is sprayed on a soybean field in the Cerrado plains near Campo Verde, Mato Grosso state. The neighboring Pantanal area, a sanctuary of biodiversity, is presently at risk because of the intensive culture of soybean and the deforestation, scientists said. ](https://www.cnn.com/media/sites/cnn/cnn-fallback-image.jpg) Herbicide is sprayed on a soybean field in the Cerrado plains near Campo Verde, Mato Grosso state. The neighboring Pantanal area, a sanctuary of biodiversity, is presently at risk because of the intensive culture of soybean and the deforestation, scientists said. Yasuyoshi Chiba/AFP/Getty Images Water resources are also suffering; according to the WWF, of 12 major hydrological regions in Brazil, six begin in the Cerrado. “The Amazon rainforest is firmly established in the psyche of many for decades now, and rightly so – it’s suffering a desperate plight of its own,” Gardner told CNN. “But there are other ecosystems that are disappearing, and we learn about what they are too late.” CNN’s Isabelle Gerretsen contributed to this report. 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Readable Markdown	CNN — The [Amazon blazes](https://cnn.com/2019/08/22/world/amazon-rainforest-environment-fire-trnd/index.html) have captured the attention of the world and its [leaders](https://cnn.com/2019/08/28/politics/donald-trump-amazon-fire-aid-g7/index.html), and for good reason – the destruction of one of the world’s major carbon stores could strike a devastating blow to the fight against climate change, and to the homes and livelihoods of [indigenous communities](https://edition.cnn.com/2019/08/29/americas/amazon-rainforest-fires-indigenous-community/index.html). But just miles away, another part of Brazil, home to 5% of the planet’s plants and animals, and a carbon store of its own, is being destroyed at a faster rate. Brazil’s Cerrado – a “mosaic” habitat made up of savannah, grassland and forest – is the world’s most biodiverse such region, and spans around 200 million hectares. Ad Feedback Ad Feedback “It is estimated that the biome has 837 species of birds, 120 of reptiles, 150 of amphibians, 1,200 thousand fish, 90,000 insects, 199 types of mammals,” Mercedes Bustamante, a biologist at the University of Brasilia told CNN. More than 4,800 species are endemic – including giant otters, tapirs and jaguars – and of more than 11,000 plant species found in the Cerrado, nearly half are found nowhere else on earth, according to the World Wildlife Foundation. The Cerrado is half the size of the Amazon and is 50% deforested, according to Edegar de Oliveira Rosa, director of Conservation and Restoration of Ecosystems at WWF-Brazil. “We are losing around 700,000 hectares per year,” he told CNN. Like in the Amazon, Cerrado habitats are being cleared because of [global demand for meat](https://cnn.com/2019/08/23/americas/brazil-beef-amazon-rainforest-fire-intl/index.html) – to make way for cattle ranches, and later converted to grow soy which is used to feed livestock or exported to other parts of the world. Deforestation is not new, and it doesn’t just happen in Brazil. But as global demand for meat soars, and as China turns to Brazil for its supply of soybeans amid the trade war with the US, experts worry that Brazil’s agricultural boom will come at the cost of habitats like the Cerrado. Analysis from TRASE, an initiative that tracks transparency in commodity supply chains, found that in 2018 Brazil, Argentina and Paraguay produced 50% of the world’s soy, up from 3% half a century ago. “In the last 10 years pretty much all of the expansion of soy within Brazil has happened in the Cerrado,” Toby Gardner, director of TRASE, told CNN. “There’s really not much of the Cerrado left,” he added. The area has fewer protections than the Amazon, where according to de Oliviera Rosa, around 50% of land remains protected. In contrast, de Oliviera Rosa added, around 8% of the Cerrado is protected. “In absolute terms, about the same area has been cleared, but in relative terms, the Cerrado is much more threatened, with more than three times more loss than the Amazon,” Gardner told CNN. Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro’s office declined to comment, referring CNN to the environment ministry. Officials there did not respond to CNN’s request for comment. The destruction of the habitat is also bad news for climate change: the Cerrado, the WWF says, locks up a “deceptively large amount of carbon” in its deep root systems. “It is a forest in a different way – it is an upside-down forest, because a lot of the biomass is underground,” de Oliviera Rosa told CNN. In a recent report, Greenpeace suggested that the remaining original vegetation of the region contains a carbon store of equivalent to 13.7 gigatonnes of equivalent carbon dioxide. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has [warned](https://cnn.com/2019/08/08/world/ipcc-report-land-climate-crisis-sci-intl/index.html) that while forests are important carbon sinks, their ability to capture carbon could continue to decrease depending on human actions. Deforestation and agriculture fuel global warming, by weakening land’s capacity to draw down carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and emitting vast amounts of greenhouse gases. “The climate doesn’t have frontiers. Affecting biodiversity, losing species, releasing carbon chopping down forests, and burning them to grow crops adds to the climate crisis that affects us all,” Daniela Montalto, a forest campaigner for Greenpeace, told CNN. Water resources are also suffering; according to the WWF, of 12 major hydrological regions in Brazil, six begin in the Cerrado. “The Amazon rainforest is firmly established in the psyche of many for decades now, and rightly so – it’s suffering a desperate plight of its own,” Gardner told CNN. “But there are other ecosystems that are disappearing, and we learn about what they are too late.” CNN’s Isabelle Gerretsen contributed to this report.
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