savanna

The fall in the Cerrado, Brazil's savanna region, was 23.8%.

From BBC ● Oct. 17, 2026

Kio, whom director Favreau and company begin following when he’s eight weeks old, is a tenacious fellow and there’s never any question that life on the savanna is harsh, severe and can be very brief.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026

Instead, the findings indicate that they likely collected fire from natural sources, such as lightning strikes or wildfires on the African savanna.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 24, 2026

Nonprofits and conservation groups estimate that there are today around 415,000 elephants in Africa, and the African savanna elephant is listed as endangered by the International Union for Conservation of Nature.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 4, 2026

Crisscrossing the savanna are networks of earthen fish weirs: interconnected low berms that change direction, zigzag-style, every thirty to a hundred feet.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

A Gaboon viper — a highly venomous snake native to the rainforests and savannas of sub-Saharan Africa — was on the loose in a Santa Ana neighborhood.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

Capybaras aren’t native to Mexico; they are South American, occupying savannas and vegetated areas.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 16, 2026

Ancient stories, poems, and songs may hold clues to how vast savannas and grasslands formed and endured across the region.

From Science Daily ● Feb. 1, 2026

The scale of the increase varied across the four different biomes surveyed, with the sharpest rise in tropical savannas.

From Barron's ● Jan. 6, 2026

While the savannas and mangroves of coastal southern New Guinea are fairly similar to those of northern Australia, other habitats of the hemi-continents differ in almost all major respects.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond