The world watched as California and the Amazon went up in flames this year, but the largest tropical wetland on earth has been ablaze for months, largely unnoticed by the outside world. South ...

The Pantanal teems with life in every season. The dry season, July to October, is the best time to see mind-boggling concentrations of wildlife clustered around water holes. The flooded and ...

I get my first hint of the Pantanal's impressive biodiversity as soon as I get off the plane in Corumbá, Brazil. White splotches cover the tarmac like some sort of Rorschach test on steroids ...

Humans can do good things as well as bad – and good things are happening in Brazil's Pantanal. Both jaguars and hyacinth macaws are making a comeback and I have seen it with my own eyes.

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 ...

This year, roughly a quarter of the vast Pantanal wetland in Brazil, one of the most biodiverse places on Earth, has burned in wildfires worsened by climate change.

Fires flared up again in the Pantanal in 2021, burning more than 700,000 hectares (1.7 million acres) by September, but it’s not clear how many animals it impacted.

Item 1 of 2 An aerial view shows burnt trees near a river in The Pantanal, the world's largest wetland, in Pocone, Mato Grosso state, Brazil, August 28, 2020. Picture taken August 28, 2020.

In “Saving Wildlife: Giants of the Pantanal,” KPRC 2 takes you to Brazil to see the important work being done on the ground and explains how Houstonians are helping make it possible.

The fires that tore through South America’s Pantanal region in 2020, destroying 30% of its area, are still scorched in memory. And now, the world’s largest wetland that fans out across Brazil ...

C owboys, capybaras, and caipirinhas coexist in the world’s largest tropical wetland, the Pantanal. At more than 75,000 sq. mi., this rural region of Brazil nestled near the Paraguay border is a ...