Brazil: Nature protection for gastro-diversity

Announcement

Original announcement of the event on this website (April 2010)

For the GEO article in Portuguese language, please go to the downloads section.

Action Day in the Cerrado

The Brazilian Cerrado is topographically as flat as an African savannah. Its vegetation, quite monotonous in many stretches during autumn and winter - from May to August - lacks any exuberance in form or colour, being predominantly green, pinpointed here and there by some yellow specks from brushwood and medium-sized trees.

quilombolas, the common designation for descendants of former runaway Negro slaves, which used to take refuge in small settlements called quilombos (the term is derived from the Kimbundu word kilombo

Getting a Taste of the Cerrado

(Annona crassiflora)(Caryocar brasiliense)(Hymenaea courbaril), which renders a rich flour used to enrich purees and other specialties.

All of these foods have a very distinct taste - exotic to the European palate and even to the cosmopolitan Brazilians of the southeast. They were served as the main ingredients of three different dishes and a terrific dessert (a petit gateau(Orbignya speciosa)petit fours

Findings and Conclusions

(Solanum lycocarpum), a delicacy for the almost extinct maned wolf (Chrysocyon brachyurus)(Palicourea sp.), from the RubiaceaeRubiaceae family is considered the seventh richest biome of the Cerrado. The genus Palicourea includes approximately 250 species of shrubs and small trees, which are normally found in the tropics. During the visit, it was not possible to see its multicolored flowers, which attract so many hummingbirds in these latitudes. The Montanoa bipinnatifica

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