A giant armadillo moves through grass and brush cover of the Cerrado region in Brazil. (Image courtesy of Carly Vynne)
In the biodiverse Brazilian cerrado, protected areas are swiftly surrounded by agriculture, leaving the larger animals in parks with not enough space to roam – or even survive. A law in Brazil that requires keeping 20% of your farm’s original vegetation intact creates a matrix of natural and worked land that allows many animals to use the land. Read more about this study, published by Carly Vynne during her doctoral research at the Center for Conservation Biology, and others. Read the original article here.
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