At a shelter for big cats in Brazil, a vet gingerly dresses wounds on a jaguar that was caught in wildfires raging in the ...

The Pantanal region in Brazil is the world’s largest tropical wetlands and one of the most ecologically diverse places in the world. It’s home to more than 4,700 species of plants and animals, ...

Omar Marques/Getty Images An army truck drives through flooded streets while delivering aid in Lewin Brzeski, Poland, days ...

While the animal is expected to heal, her home in the Pantanal continues to burn. The Pantanal, south of the Amazon in Mato Grosso do Sul state, has the world's highest density of jaguars.

Pollyanna Motinha, a vet at the Nex NoExtinction shelter on the outskirts of Brasilia, says she is increasingly seeing animals "at the ... during recent fires in Pantanal, as she receives ...