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The Pantanal (Portuguese pronunciation: [pɐ̃taˈnaw]) is a natural region encompassing the world's largest tropical wetland area, and the world's largest flooded grasslands. It is located mostly within the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso do Sul , but it extends into Mato Grosso and portions of Bolivia and Paraguay .
The Pantanal — the world's largest tropical wetland area, and an ecoregion of the Flooded grasslands and savannas biome in South America. It is located primarily within Mato Grosso do Sul state of Brazil, and extends into Mato Grosso state, Bolivia, and Paraguay.
The Pantanal is the world's largest tropical wetland and is largely dependent upon waters provided by the Paraguay River. Owing to its importance as a navigable waterway serving Brazil, Argentina, and Paraguay, the river has been the focus of commercial and industrial development.
Brazil’s Pantanal, the largest tropical wetland on earth, is ablaze, with fires in June breaking historical records for that month. While aerial views of the wetland show smoke rising and the ...
The number of Pantanal fires so far this year has jumped tenfold from the same period last year according to Brazil's National Institute of Space Research (INPE). Fires in Brazil wetlands surge to ...
Fires in Brazil's Pantanal wetlands have ripped through the biodiverse region, consuming an area the size of London in just the past 10 days, burning some animals alive and sending others fleeing.
On 31 August, IBAMA fined two companies more than R$ 100 million for a massive fire in the Pantanal caused by maintenance workers on a railway line in Corumbá. The fire, which started on 16 August and was brought under control on 23 August, destroyed more than 17,000 hectares (42,000 acres) of vegetation and affected 12 rural properties in the ...
Pantanal Matogrossense National Park has an area of 135,606 hectares (335,090 acres). It is in the Pantanal biome. The park was created by decree nº 86.392 on 24 September 1981, and is managed by the Chico Mendes Institute for Biodiversity Conservation (ICMBio). [2]