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Chapada dos Veadeiros National Park

Goiás, Brazil

This is one of the most important protect areas within the brazilian Cerrado, a savanna-like biome which is considered a biodiversity hotspot,

due to it extremely high taxes of biological diversity and severe incidence of threats. It is also an endemism center for several biological groups, suck as plants and reptiles. The Cerrado is higly threatened due to human activities such agro-industry farming and criminal fires. Despite being a protected area of restricted use, Chapada dos Veadeiros National Park continue to suffer habitat loss caused by these threts. It is also a important are for biodiversity conservation and development of scientific research.

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