Authors
Rodrigo Lopes Ferreira, Enrico Bernard, Francisco William da Cruz Júnior, Luis Beethoven Piló, Allan Calux, Marconi Souza-Silva, Jos Barlow, Paulo S Pompeu, Pedro Cardoso, Stefano Mammola, Alejandro Martínez García, William R Jeffery, William Shear, Rodrigo A Medellín, J Judson Wynne, Paulo AV Borges, Yoshitaka Kamimura, Tanja Pipan, Nadja Zupan Hajna, Alberto Sendra, Stewart Peck, Bogdan P Onac, David C Culver, Hannelore Hoch, Jean-François Flot, Fabio Stoch, Martina Pavlek, Matthew L Niemiller, Shirish Manchi, Louis Deharveng, Danté Fenolio, José-María Calaforra, Jill Yager, Christian Griebler, Fadi Henri Nader, William F Humphreys, Alice C Hughes, Brock Fenton, Paolo Forti, Francesco Sauro, George Veni, Amos Frumkin, Efrat Gavish-Regev, Cene Fišer, Peter Trontelj, Maja Zagmajster, Teo Delic, Diana MP Galassi, Ilaria Vaccarelli, Marjan Komnenov, Guilherme Gainett, Valeria da Cunha Tavares, Ľubomír Kováč, Ana Z Miller, Kazunori Yoshizawa, Tiziana Di Lorenzo, Oana T Moldovan, David Sánchez-Fernández, Soumia Moutaouakil, Francis Howarth, Helena Bilandžija, Tvrtko Dražina, Nikolina Kuharić, Valerija Butorac, Charles Lienhard, Steve JB Cooper, David Eme, André Menezes Strauss, Mattia Saccò, Yahui Zhao, Paul Williams, Mingyi Tian, Krizler Tanalgo, Kyung-Sik Woo, Miran Barjakovic, Gary F McCracken, Nancy B Simmons, Paul A Racey, Derek Ford, José Ayrton Labegalini, Nivaldo Colzato, Maria João Ramos Pereira, Ludmilla MS Aguiar, Ricardo Moratelli, Gerhard Du Preez, Abel Pérez-González, Ana Sofia PS Reboleira, John Gunn, Ann Mc Cartney, Paulo ED Bobrowiec, Dmitry Milko, Wanja Kinuthia, Erich Fischer, Melissa B Meierhofer, Winifred F Frick
Publication date
2022/3/18
Journal
Science
Volume
375
Issue
6586
Pages
1238-1239
Publisher
American Association for the Advancement of Science
Description
Under President Jair Bolsonaro, Brazil has neglected environmental protection (1). Until recently, subterranean environments were largely safeguarded; although some caves could be destroyed for the purposes of exploiting mineral resources or urban development, those classified as presenting maximum cultural, geological, and/or biological value had to be preserved (2). However, a January presidential decree (3) allows the destruction of even those caves with maximum relevance, representing a substantial step backward for subterranean conservation. The new decree ignores the irreplaceable scientific value of Brazilian caves. Researchers have documented hundreds of endemic obligate cave species, including animals with unique adaptations (4). Thousands of species still lack formal descriptions, and many more species await discovery. At least 72 bat species roost in Brazilian caves and provide critical …
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