Wildlife death toll from 2020 Pantanal fires tops 17 million, study finds

Mongabay
Dec 17, 2021, 11:43 am257 pts
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…

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