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Brazil’s Pantanal wetlands on fire – in pictures

September 17, 2020
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  • Smoke rising into the air around the Cuiaba River

    Photograph: Amanda Perobelli/Reuters

    Smoke rising into the air around the Cuiaba River.e


  • A volunteer tries to douse the fire on the Transpantaneira road near Pocone

    Photograph: Andre Penner/AP

    A volunteer tries to douse the fire on the Transpantaneira road near Pocone.


  • Carlos Augusto Rodrigues, 35, separates cattle with the help of his friend, Idalino Menino Pereira, 53, on the ranch where Rodrigues works, in the Pantanal

    Photograph: Amanda Perobelli/Reuters

    Carlos Augusto Rodrigues, 35, separates cattle with the help of his friend, Idalino Menino Pereira, 53, on the ranch where Rodrigues works, in the Pantanal.


  • An aerial view shows a house surrounded by burnt vegetation

    Photograph: Amanda Perobelli/Reuters

    An aerial view shows a house surrounded by burnt vegetation.


  • The Brazilian Pantanal is experiencing the worst wildfires in its registered history. More than 12%, or 16.500 sq km, has already been burned

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    Forest fires burn in Pocone in the state of Mato Grosso.


  • Birds fly past as a fire consumes an area next to the Transpantaneira road

    Photograph: Andre Penner/AP

    Birds fly past as a fire consumes an area next to the Transpantaneira road.


  • A dead alligator lies beside the road

    Photograph: Mauro Pimentel/AFP/Getty Images

    A dead alligator lies beside the road.


  • A dead raccoon

    Photograph: Joao Paulo Guimaraes/AFP/Getty Images

    A dead raccoon.


  • A deer tries to escape a fire, which is threatening hundreds of species in the region

    Photograph: Rogerio Florentino/EPA

    A deer tries to escape a fire, which is threatening hundreds of species in the region


  • A carcara (Caracara plancus) drinks water from a puddle

    Photograph: Mauro Pimentel/AFP/Getty Images

    A carcara (Caracara plancus) drinks water from a puddle


  • A hyacinth macaw flies over a burnt area of ground

    Photograph: Mauro Pimentel/AFP/Getty Images

    A hyacinth macaw flies over a burnt area of ground.


  • A Brazilian porcupine (Coendou prehensilis) climbs a tree. The Pantanal is suffering its worst fires in more than 47 years, destroying vast areas of vegetation and causing death of animals caught in the fire or smoke

    Photograph: Mauro Pimentel/AFP/Getty Images

    A Brazilian porcupine (Coendou prehensilis) climbs a tree. The Pantanal is suffering its worst fires in more than 47 years, destroying vast areas of vegetation and causing death of animals caught in the fire or smoke.


  • Giant otters (Ariranha) swim in the Pantanal

    Photograph: Mauro Pimentel/AFP/Getty Images

    Giant otters (Ariranha) swim in the Pantanal.


  • An injured adult male jaguar walks along the bank of a river at the Encontros das Aguas park, in the Porto Jofre region of the Pantanal

    Photograph: Mauro Pimentel/AFP/Getty Images

    An injured adult male jaguar walks along the bank of a river at the Encontros das Aguas park, in the Porto Jofre region of the Pantanal.


  • A toucan surveys the destruction

    Photograph: Mauro Pimentel/AFP/Getty Images

    A toucan surveys the destruction.


  • A turtle walks on the Transpantaneira Park Road

    Photograph: Mauro Pimentel/AFP/Getty Images

    A turtle walks on the Transpantaneira Park Road.


  • Alligators, capybaras and egrets stand on the banks of the Bento Gomes River

    Photograph: Andre Penner/AP

    Alligators, capybaras and egrets stand on the banks of the Bento Gomes River.


  • A monkey walks on a branch in Encontros das Aguas Park

    Photograph: Mauro Pimentel/AFP/Getty Images

    A monkey walks on a branch in Encontros das Aguas Park.


  • Vultures cluster in a tree

    Photograph: Rogerio Florentino/EPA

    Vultures cluster in a tree.


  • Vultures stand next to the carcass of a alligator on the banks of the Cuiaba River

    Photograph: Andre Penner/AP

    Vultures stand next to the carcass of a alligator on the banks of the Cuiaba River.


  • Volunteers of an animal rescue group, return a Brazilian porcupine (Coendou prehensilis) to the wild

    Photograph: Mauro Pimentel/AFP/Getty Images

    Volunteers of an animal rescue group, return a Brazilian porcupine (Coendou prehensilis) to the wild.


  • The burned leg of an agouti or ‘cutia’ rescued from a forest fire

    Photograph: Rogerio Florentino/EPA

    The burned leg of an agouti or 'cutia' rescued from a forest fire.


  • A jabiru with a broken wing is treated by a Jessica Ribeiro, a veterinarian and Helena Aimee Santos Lima, a veterinary student volunteer, at a temporary clinic set up to rescue and treat wildlife in the Pantanal

    Photograph: Amanda Perobelli/Reuters

    A jabiru with a broken wing is treated by a Jessica Ribeiro, a veterinarian and Helena Aimee Santos Lima, a veterinary student volunteer, at a temporary clinic set up to rescue and treat wildlife in the Pantanal.


  • Foxes eating watermelons left by animal protectors

    Photograph: Mauro Pimentel/AFP/Getty Images

    Foxes eating watermelons left by animal protectors.


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