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The Caatinga, not that dissimilar with the African savannah, a biosphere exclusively ocurring in Brazil, occupies about 11% of the country (844,453 km²), being the main ecosystem / biome in the northeast region. The caatinga is the least known biome in the country. However, the most current data indicate a great wealth of environments and species, with 932 species of plants, 148 of mammals and 510 of birds, for example, with many of these species occurring only in the caatinga. The conservation of the caatinga is closely associated with combating desertification, a process of environmental degradation that occurs in arid, semi-arid and dry sub-humid areas. In Brazil, 62% of the areas susceptible to desertification are in areas originally occupied by caatinga, many of which have already been significantly altered. In the international context, the caatinga is directly related to two of the three main environmental conventions, within the scope of the united nations, namely the Convention on Biological Diversity – CDB and the Convention to Combat Desertification – CCD. This context can help in the conservation of this biome, if there is a joint effort on the part of those responsible for the implementation of these conventions in the country, respectively the Secretariat for Biodiversity and Forests and the Secretariat for Extractivism and Sustainable Rural Development, of the Ministry of Environment – MMA and its partners in the governmental and non-governmental spheres. The caatinga indirectly also relates to the Climate Change Convention, as these have acquired a global scale.