A Bicycle Journey Across Brazil to Find a Vanishing Savanna

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In “Here There Was Cerrado” — the Second-Place Winner of the 2026 Yale Environment 360 Film Contest — Natascha Otoya shows how industrial farms are plowing up the Brazilian savanna, changing the flow of water, and skewing human memory of the landscape. In 2025, environmental historian Natascha Otoya traveled for a week through Brazil’s Cerrado region, pedaling more than 200 miles through western Bahia and Tocantins. About the Contest: Now in its 13th season, the Yale Environment 360 Film Contest honors the year’s best environmental documentary shorts from around the world.

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