Brazil ratified the U.N. Convention on Biological Biodiversity in 1998, promising to protect 10% of the Pantanal by 2010, with the 2011-2020 Aichi Goals advocating for 17%.

Poconã, Brazil — The Pantanal wetlands in western Brazil are famed as a paradise of biodiversity, but these days they have enormous clouds of smoke billowing over them, as raging wildfires ...

Brazil's Pantanal, a treasure trove of biodiversity, has already fallen prey to flames Thousands of fires have broken out since the beginning of the year in this important wetland area in west ...

UNESCO designated the Pantanal Conservation Area as a World Heritage property in 2000 in recognition of the area's outstanding biodiversity. The biome is home to at least 3,500 species of plants, ...

The world's largest wetland, Brazil’s Pantanal is home to around 5,000 jaguars and is the best place on earth to see the elusive cats in the wild. And at around 70,000sq miles, the UNESCO world ...

The Pantanal, in the Central-West region of Brazil, is in the grip of record fires. In this wildlife sanctuary, more than 760,000 hectares of vegetation were destroyed in the first six months of 2024.

High-quality satellite images show that the 2020 wildfires burned at least 2.2 million more acres (890,000 hectares) of the Pantanal wetlands than previously estimated.

In 2022, the United Nations (UN) Convention on Biodiversity recommended that 30% of Earth's surface be covered by protected areas by 2030 as a strategy to reduce species extinction.

The Pantanal, in the Central-West region of Brazil, is in the grip of record fires. In this wildlife sanctuary, more than 760,000 hectares of vegetation were destroyed in the first six months of 2024.