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Recognizing the ecological and social value of the Cerrado, the Centro de Apoio Operacional do Meio Ambiente (Environmental Operational Support Center; Caoma) of the Public Prosecutor’s Office of the State of Minas Gerais (MPMG) has launched the Ser do Cerrado project, which is part of the MPMG’s General Strategic Action Plan, and provides for initiatives to value, conserve, and ecologically restore representative areas of the biome in Minas Gerais. On December 7, 2021, the mpmg—through caoma—in partnership with the National Council of the Public Prosecutor’s Office (CNMP) and Instituto Inhotim, officially launched the project. Among its main objectives is to promote the conservation of Cerrado species by incorporating plants from this biome into the collection of the Inhotim Botanical Garden and conducting environmental education activities to raise public awareness about the ecological and cultural importance of the biome.