São Paulo, Brazil – The Pantanal, the world's largest freshwater wetland, is facing an unprecedented fire season, with data from Brazil's National Institute of Space Research (INPE) revealing 3,426 fire outbreaks between January and June 2024. This surpasses all historical records since 1988 when measurements began.
Images and reports from the region are alarming. In the first six months of the year, fire has already consumed 600,000 hectares, 143% more than in the same period in 2020, which was until then considered the worst year for the biome. In 2020, fires devastated four million hectares, a third of the entire Pantanal area, causing the death of an estimated 17 million animals.
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