Several new species discovered in Brazil
Wednesday, April 30, 2008 - 13:47
in Earth & Climate
Researchers discovered a legless lizard and a tiny woodpecker along with 12 other suspected new species in Brazil's Cerrado, one of the world's 34 biodiversity conservation hotspots. The Cerrado's wooded grassland once covered an area half the size of Europe, but is now being converted to cropland and ranchland at twice the rate of the neighbouring Amazon rainforest, resulting in the loss of native vegetation and unique species...
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