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5 de Junho: Dia Mundial do Meio Ambiente 
O Cerrado é o segundo maior bioma do Brasil, a savana tropical mais diversificada no mundo. Embora as suas riquezas naturais sejam menosprezadas, o cerrado brasileiro contém mais de 6000 espécies de plantas (entre as quais, centenas de espécies medicinais, ou de utilidade comercial), 50 % das espécies de aves do Brasil, 45% dos peixes, 40% dos mamíferos e 38% dos répteis. Ameaçado pelas atividades antrópicas (desmatamento, agricultura, pressão urbana), o Cerrado já perdeu a metade da sua superfície inicial, e pode desaparecer até 2020, se nada for feito por sua conservação.
Sendo assim, o Cerrado é considerado como hotspot de biodiversidade (região caracterizada por uma “forte concentração de espécies endêmicas, mas sujeita a uma intensa diminuição do seu habitat”).
Portanto, o Cerrado Brasileiro, assim como a Caatinga, ainda não foram reconhecidos constitucionalmente como patrimônios nacionais. O Projeto de Emenda à Constituição PEC-115/1995, que solicita a inclusão destes biomas na lista dos patrimônios nacionais, em trâmites no Congresso Nacional há 13 anos, ainda não foi votado.
The Brazilian Savannah is the second largest biome of Brazil, the tropical savannah more diversified in the world. Although their natural wealths are despised, the Brazilian savannah contains more than 6000 species of plants (hundreds of medicinal species, or with commercial use), 50% of the species of birds of Brazil, 45% of the fishes, 40% of the mammals and 38% of the reptiles. Threatened by the anthropics activities (deforestation, agriculture, urban pressure) the Savannah already lost the half of his initial surface, and it can disappear up to 2020, if nothing is made for his conservation.
Being like this, the Savannah is considered as an hotspot biodiversity (area characterized by a "strong concentration of endemic species, but subject to an intense decrease of his habitat").
Therefore, the Brazilian Savannah, as well as the Caatinga, were not still
recognized constitutionally as national patrimonies. The Project of Amendment to the Constituição PEC-115/1995, that requests the inclusion of these biomes in the list of the national patrimonies, in procedures in the Congress National for 13 years, wasn’t voted yet.
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The Brazilian Savannah is the second largest biome of Brazil, the tropical savannah more diversified in the world. Although their natural wealths are despised, the Brazilian savannah contains more than 6000 species of plants (hundreds of medicinal species, or with commercial use), 50% of the species of birds of Brazil, 45% of the fishes, 40% of the mammals and 38% of the reptiles. Threatened by the anthropics activities (deforestation, agriculture, urban pressure) the Savannah already lost the half of his initial surface, and it can disappear up to 2020, if nothing is made for his conservation.
Being like this, the Savannah is considered as an hotspot biodiversity (area characterized by a "strong concentration of endemic species, but subject to an intense decrease of his habitat").
Therefore, the Brazilian Savannah, as well as the Caatinga, were not still
recognized constitutionally as national patrimonies. The Project of Amendment to the Constituição PEC-115/1995, that requests the inclusion of these biomes in the list of the national patrimonies, in procedures in the Congress National for 13 years, wasn’t voted yet.