Instant Wild: Brazilian Cerrado

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Help research aiming to improve the safeguarding of large mammals in Brazil.

ZSL and UCL PhD student Guillherme Braga Ferreira set up motion triggered video cameras in northern Minas Gerais to document the wildlife there. These videos aim to survey protected areas with contrasting levels of management regimes and anthropogenic pressure.

These cameras were unable to transmit live and following his return to the UK Guillherme has been undertaking identification of the species captured in order to continue his research, which is assessing protected area effectiveness in safeguarding large mammals in the Brazilian Cerrado.

This study is conducted in the mosaic of protected areas Sertão Veredas-Peruaçu, northern Minas Gerais, one of the most important regions for biodiversity conservation in south-eastern Brazil, harbouring large amounts of natural vegetation cover and a virtually intact large mammal community.

Completed from 01/01/2017 until 31/12/2018

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