Wildfires are raging across the Pantanal tropical wetlands in southern Brazil, one of the most biodiversity areas in the world and a major tourist destination, regional authorities said on Thursday.

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". The Pantanal ...

The researchers predict that the Pantanal region may lose almost all suitable habitats for amphibians by 2100.

In this article, I will introduce you to the largest wetlands in the world, known as the Pantanal. Spanning an area of 210,000 square kilometers across Brazil, Bolivia, and Paraguay, the Pantanal ...

Brazil anticipates high-risk wildfires in the Amazon and Pantanal in 2025 after a record drought. The government is expanding ...

Located in western central Brazil at the south-west corner of the State of Mato Grosso, the site represents 1.3% of Brazil's Pantanal region, one of the world's largest freshwater wetland ecosystems.

Supervised by Dr. Peter Leimgruber and Dr. Tom Akre, we are studying the Pantanal wetland cattle ranching system. Located in the middle of South America, the Pantanal is the largest wetland in the ...

Brazil’s Pantanal, the world’s largest wetlands, is home to a sizable population of jaguars. Near one tiny outpost, the normally shy animals are remarkably easy to observe. Credit ...

It uses the Pantanal wetland of Brazil as a case study, in which policymakers established restrictive fishing rules based on claims that local overfishing had caused numbers of recreational fishing ...

Deep in the Brazilian wetlands, a jaguar named Amanaci was recently rescued from raging fires in the Pantanal — the world's largest wetland. She's undergoing an experimental stem cell treatment ...

58, No. 6 (2013), pp. 2249-2261 (13 pages) Nearly 15,000 shallow, saline or freshwater lakes and ponds coexist in close proximity in the Nhecolândia, a 24,000 km² subregion of the Pantanal wetland in ...

The Pantanal is "more intact and pristine" than most other wetlands in the world, said World Wildlife. It comprises about 3% of all the wetlands on Earth – but less than 5% of it is protected.