Cerrado Protected Areas: Chapada dos Veadeiros and Emas National Parks
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How it came to be
The Cerrado is the tropical savannah of Brazil's central plateau, one of the oldest and most diverse tropical ecosystems in the world. Chapada dos Veadeiros and Emas National Parks hold more than 60 percent of the Cerrado's plant species and almost 80 percent of its vertebrates. Giant anteaters, giant armadillos, maned wolves, jaguars, pampas deer and the rhea, South America's largest bird, live here.
The Chapada dos Veadeiros region was opened up by the gold rush of the 18th century, and Cavalcante became for a time one of Brazil's major gold producers. The mines relied on enslaved labour, and communities founded by people who escaped, called quilombos, remain in the region, among them the Kalunga. The national park was created on 11 January 1961 by President Juscelino Kubitschek.
The two parks were inscribed in 2001, with a minor boundary change in 2019. Emas is almost surrounded by farmland, and to counter fire and farm expansion, wildlife corridors are being built to link it with the land beyond.
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