Fires raze nearly half of Indigenous territories in Brazil’s Pantanal

Mongabay
Oct 6, 2020, 12:54 pm214 pts
In September, 164 fires were recorded across Indigenous territories in the Brazilian Pantanal, the world’s biggest wetland. In August, there were more than 200. Nearly half of the certified Indigenous areas in the region have already been subject to fires that cut off villages, destroyed homes and farms, and…

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