Diana Coronel-Bejarano

Federal University of Bahia · Departamento de Zoologia

Weakening environmental laws supported by disinformation are currently of concern in Brazil. An example of disinformation is the case of the "firefighter cattle". Supporters of this idea believe that by consuming organic mass, cattle decrease the risk of fire in natural ecosystems. This statement was cited by a member of the Bolsonaro government in...

Aggregation among individuals of the same species is a common spatial pattern in nature, and has been well studied in insects, mammals, birds, and fishes. Among vertebrates, mammals, birds, and fishes are considered the most social. Among reptiles, snakes also form aggregations for mating, defense, or communal shedding, and this behavior can be ass...

Native Ilex paraguariensis (yerba mate) is one of the most widespread crops in the Atlantic Forest region of southern South America and has an important economic and cultural value in Paraguay, Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay. Despite the known potential of shade‐grown products (especially cocoa and coffee) to protect biodiversity, the benefits of sh...

The evaluation of the conservation status is a planning tool that allows to take actions for the preservation of these. Paraguay suffers an accelerated loss of habitats, due to the high rate of deforestation due to the land-use change, for which this tool plays a fundamental role in the conservation of biodiversity. Law 96 of 1992, contemplates the...