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Fotografia do Cerrado
Red-legged seriema in golden grassland, with a flowering pink ipê tree behind

The wildlife of the Cerrado, up close

Photographs of animals from Brazil's second-largest biome, to bring people closer to nature and help protect it.

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Some of the animals that turn up most on our expeditions.

Maned wolf with orange fur and black legs walking on the grass

Maned wolf

Chrysocyon brachyurus

The largest canid in South America. It hunts at night and also eats lots of fruit, such as the wolf apple, helping to spread the seeds.

Vulnerable (ICMBio)
Gray giant anteater with the black shoulder stripe, foraging in the grass

Giant anteater

Myrmecophaga tridactyla

Uses its long tongue, up to 60 cm, to eat ants and termites. It has no teeth.

Vulnerable (ICMBio)
Blue-and-yellow macaw flying with wings spread over the forest

Blue-and-yellow macaw

Ara ararauna

Lives in pairs and nests in hollows of dead palm trees, such as the buriti.

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Why the Cerrado

It is the most species-rich savanna in the world and, at the same time, one of the biomes that has lost the most native vegetation in Brazil.

2ndlargest biome in Brazil, after the Amazon
≈ 24%of Brazil's territory
3major river basins start here: the Amazon, the São Francisco and the Paraná

Come and photograph with us

Trips in small groups, with a local guide and a focus on watching without disturbing the animals.

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