“The project funded by the Heritage Emergency Fund makes a significant contribution to local communities by recognizing and strengthening their vital role in fire prevention and control,” says Marlova ...

The other main front that firefighters are battling is in the Pantanal National Park to the southwest, where fires have burned 24 percent of the surface area. Figueiroa warns the two fire fronts ...

In Pocone – home to Pantanal Matogrossense National Park – satellites from U.S. space agency NASA recorded more than 1.82 million fire alerts between Sept. 28 and Dec. 20, a huge jump from the ...

In south-west Brazil, the Pantanal stretches as far as the eye can see, between flooded plains, lush forests and stunning ...

Pantanal Matogrossense National Park lies just a few kilometers north of the river. Source: Sentinel 2. “Access is one of the biggest limitations for us,” said one source at an environmental ...

The Pantanal, which covers an area estimated at between 54,000 and 75,000 square miles, is located on the borders of Brazil, Bolivia and Paraguay, with 80 per cent of its area falling within the ...

The number of forest fires in the Pantanal, the world's largest tropical wetlands, has tripled in 2020 compared to last year, according to Brazil's national space agency Inpe.

Brazil is gearing up to showcase the best of its unique biomes and ecotourism experiences. View on euronews ...

In 2020 fires devastated 4.3 million hectares of the Pantanal region — the highest number since monitoring began in 1998; the number of fires burning in the area was 508% more than average. That same ...

The downpours of the last few days have also helped firefighters in Mato Grosso, where a single hotspot had been active near the Paraguay river, also in the pantanal, until Tuesday (Nov. 21).

In this state, the fires are concentrated in the Pantanal National Park, the Dorochê Private Natural Heritage Reserve, the state parks Encontro das Águas and Rio Negro, and private properties.

Santiago de Chiquitos, a community in Roboré, was the place chosen for the course “Training to Preserve our Pantanal”, which involved the participation of 22 park rangers and technicians from the ...