As many as 17 million vertebrates, including reptiles, birds, and primates were killed after wildfires had ravaged Brazil between January and November.
In 2020, fires tore across the Pantanal, the world’s largest wetland region that spans across Brazil, Bolivia and Paraguay. By the time the year drew to a close, the fires had impacted about 4.5 million hectares (11 million acres), which accounts for 30% of the biome and covers nearly 22 times the area lost to […]