Brazil's biodiversity paradox: nature worth $63B annually, but soy dominates at $260B

Indigenous peoples' traditional biodiversity management practices face erosion as deforestation accelerates, threatening both cultural heritage and ecological stewardship spanning millennia.

Brazil holds more living species than almost any nation on Earth, yet the economy it has built treats that inheritance as background noise. In 2024, the full weight of native biodiversity contributed less than one percent of national GDP, while a single introduced crop—soya—generated more than four times its value. This is not a failure of nature but a failure of imagination, a centuries-long wager on extraction over regeneration that now stands at a crossroads as entire biomes approach the point of no return.

Brazil's biodiversity paradox: nature worth $63B annually, but soy dominates at $260B

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