About our Expedition Cerrado

In March 2024 a selected group of indigenous leaders, educators, guardians, artists and conscious investors from different parts of the world will travel through the Chapada dos Veadeiros, engaging with traditional communities and regenerative initiatives. We learn from a collective transformative experience as well as a curated self-directed learning process. Our participants document their journey in short videos, initiatives and hands on projects to understand why unity is very difficult. It is a collective call to come together and listen to Mother Nature and learn to act according to the importance of the moment. Let’s offer each other stories full of hope and inspiration.

What is in it for you?

• EXPERIMENT how to create impact beyond traditional paths and investments by leading through an emerging future. You are entering a new world by becoming aware of old paradigms and mentalities that are no longer needed.

• MEET and COLLABORATE with a new generation of thought leaders and upcoming game changers. EXPERIENCE how to set up exponential projects while building communities of Practice.

• ENHANCE your impact of your foundation, group or collective through the opportunity of a cutting-edge learning experience with indigenous leaders, traditional communities, systemic entrepreneurs and visionary investors.

• Learn to map your Ecosystem and understand the play of social dynamics of your territory with grace.

Itinery Expedition Cerrado

Executive Summary and Starting Point

The collective Cobra Canoa invites to the learning journey Expedition Cerrado starting in Brasilía going to Alto Paríso, Teresina, Cavalcante and São Jorge. Our mission is to learn how to we can enjoy a planetary well-beeing our a unforseeable world. Our goals of Expedition Cerrado are

1. To map the ecosystem of regeneration in the Cerrado (regenerative agriculture, local iniciatives, innovative learning spaces, regenerative practices, models and solutions, key players, traditional communities)

2. To empower the collaboration of traditional comunities with refugees of a transforming world honoring the history, the fights and achievments while creating access to a dignified and abundant life with quality

3. To create new alliences in order to achieve a regenerative and peaceful state built upon colaboration between traditional comunities, initiatives, and the capatalistic world.

Cerrado a Socio-Biodiversity hotspot

Sitting just below the Amazon rainforest, Cerrado covers a total area of 2 million sq. km., taking up one fifth of Brazil’s expanse. This grassland biome, the size of England, France, Germany, Italy and Spain put together, is the largest Savanna in South America, and the second largest type of vegetation, after the Amazonian rainforest. Right in the heart of the cerrado is the capital, Brasilia and the Chapada dos Veadeiros National Park, in the state of Goiás, one of the Brazilian sites on the UNESCO World Heritage List.

Why Preserving the Cerrado Matters

• The Cerrado is home to 5% percent of the planet’s biodiversity. Species that rely on the savanna include jaguars, giant anteaters, maned wolves, anacondas, howler monkeys, armadillos, and capybaras, to name a few.

• Each year, clearing in the Cerrado is responsible for an estimated 250 million metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions, equivalent to the annual emissions of 53 million cars.

• Some of South America’s most important rivers originate in the Cerrado. Converting the Cerrado for crop and livestock production can decrease water flows, reduce rainfall, prolong droughts, and contribute to more frequent fires.

• If the destruction of the Cerrado continues at current rates, about one-third of the remaining Cerrado’s vegetation could be cleared by 2050, leading to the extinction of up to 480 plant species by 2050.

More Information: https://www.worldwildlife.org/stories/saving-the-cerrado-brazil-s-vital-savanna

Importance of the Cerrado

• Cerrado, the largest Savanna in South America, is a grassland biome located just underneath the Amazon rainforest, and in between the Atlantic Forests.

• With over 4,800 species of endemic plants and vertebrates, Cerrado is one of the largest biodiversity hotspots in the world.

• The region’s biodiversity is an integral environmental resource for the survival, traditions and livelihood of the local communities.

More information: https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/cerrado-biodiversity-hotspot.html

A social hotspot uniting traditional communities and modern refugees

Our destinations are shrouded in magic and mystery and are renowned for their incomparable landscapes and waterfalls, which attract visitors from all over the world who come looking for a mystical experience. The city of Alto Paraíso de Goiás is locally referred to as the “capital of the third millennium,” and sitting on a huge quartz plate.

Over 40 mystical, philosophical, and religious groups, which have settled in the region over the years, have turned the destination into a remarkable melting pot of cultures and beliefs, which include, among others, Catholic churches, Buddhist temples, and meditation centers.

Kalunga, a community created as a refuge by free slaves

The Kalunga territory is a region with innumerable riches and great natural beauty. It was first occupied some 300 years ago, when many men and women were forced to live as slaves, working in mining. Not accepting this situation, they fled and began to live in hiding in parts of the hills located between the municipalities of Cavalcante, Monte Alegre de Goiás and Teresina de Goiás, to the north of the Chapada dos Veadeiros microregion, some 507 kilometres from the capital of the State of Goiânia. There, they developed their communities.

In 1982, an anthropological report certified that the entire area was occupied by people with the same ancestors. This allowed for the subsequent expansion, recognition and demarcation of the territory, which is part of the Kalunga Historical Site and Cultural Heritage—SHPCK. Today, approximately 1,600 families live in the area of 261,999 hectares, distributed in 39 communities.

More information : https://www.iccaconsortium.org/index.php/2020/02/20/in-brazil-kalunga-community-first-self-recognized-icca/

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Learn about local challenges and the threats for The Brazilian Biospheres The Cerrado, The atlantic Rainforest and the amazon from first hand.

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