The Pantanal spanning Brazil, Bolivia, and Paraguay is the world’s largest wetland—the size of Florida—and home to a wide-variety of charismatic species, such as jaguars, capybaras, and giant ...

GLAND, Switzerland— Conservation groups sent an urgent letter to the Secretariat of the Ramsar Convention today requesting a full assessment of damage caused by recent fires to in the Pantanal — the ...

Deforestation has destroyed 17 percent of the Pantanal, the world’s largest wetland, according to a new report from Conservation International. The Pantanal, an area of flooded grassland and savanna ...

A coalition of more than 40 scientists is warning that a proposal to create a new artificial shipping channel through South America's Pantanal wetlands could lead to the "end of an entire biome." The ...

This river has already been dammed twice and now the Brazilian government proposes to dam it in two more places. (Photo by Grassroots International) BRASILIA, Brazil, August 23, 2012 (ENS) – A ...

Deforestation from increased grazing and agriculture has destroyed 17 percent of the native vegetation in Brazil's Pantanal, considered the world's largest wetland. A new study published by ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. The vast Pantanal is home to thousands of animal and plant species, including jaguars, caimans ...

A recent study shows how researchers used GPS technology and new analytical techniques to produce the first rigorous estimates of jaguar spatial needs and movements in the Gran Chaco and Pantanal ...

Water does not spring from a tap: WWF initiative will highlight threats to world's largest wetland Brazil’s water sources need to be protected, restored and valued for the good of the country, its ...

About the only traffic on the sleepy upper Rio Paraguay these days are the skiffs of fishermen, trolling the milky brown waters for salmon-like golden dourado and huge pintado catfish. But soon this ...

Deforestation from increased grazing and agriculture has destroyed 17 percent of the native vegetation in Brazil's Pantanal, considered the world's largest wetland. A new study published by ...