Here is a look at some of the most unique animal species that live in the rich vegetation of the rainforest. Location: Amazon rainforests and nearby Pantanal Wetlands Size: 6 feet long ...

scientists in Brazil concluded a particularly grim conservation study - attempting to count the animals killed by huge wildfires in the Pantanal wetlands. They estimate that as many as 17 million ...

However, the number of animals that have perished in the fires will, of course, be orders of magnitude higher. The Pantanal ...

South America’s Pantanal—one of the world’s most biodiverse regions—is burning with a ferocity not seen in the historic record, with devastating suffering and death inflicted on the wild animals who ...

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.

And there are many more such lagoons in the Pantanal. This enormous flowering wetland along the Paraguay River in southwestern Brazil is not only home to what is probably Earth’s largest ...

The Pantanal is the world’s largest tropical wetland, created by the convergence of more than 1,200 rivers and streams rushing down from the eastern Andes and the high plateaus of the Cerrado, the ...

A deer tries to escape a fire in the Pantanal In total 15,756 fires have ... Experts say it is impossible to calculate yet how many animals have been killed by the fires, but losses are feared ...