Brazil's Pantanal, one of the world's largest tropical wetlands, is seeing record fires in June, even before the arrival of the dry season, satellite data showed Friday. The Brazilian Institute of ...

Wildfires often occur in the dry season in Brazil but they are also deliberately started in efforts to illegally deforest land for cattle ranching. In the Bolivian Pantanal, fighting the fires has ...

who did much of his fieldwork in the Pantanal during the height of the poaching era in the 1980s. Armed gangs would invade during the dry season and shoot masses of yacares congregated around shri ...

A deer tries to escape a fire in the Pantanal In total 15,756 fires have ... State Park Forest fires often occur naturally in the dry season in Brazil but they are also deliberately started ...

The world's largest tropical wetland is under threat, with scientists warning that devastating wildfires and a proposed commercial waterway could spell the "end of an entire biome". "Nowhere else ...

The wildfires were started by landowners during an extreme dry season with the aim of clearing land mainly for use as pasture. The resulting fires impacted nearly a third of the entire Pantanal - the ...