Explore the world's largest freshwater swamp, the Pantanal. In southwestern Brazil, the Pantanal, the world's largest freshwater swamp is home to a startling variety of wildlife, especially birds and ...

KPRC 2 and the Houston Zoo take you on a journey to Brazil to learn about the animals and efforts underway to protect them While Brazil may be known for its beaches and the Amazon Rainforest, another ...

Our boatman gets a radio call that a jaguar mother and two cubs have been spotted moving along a riverbank in the Pantanal wetlands of southern Brazil about 20 minutes from our present location. But ...

The Pantanal is the world’s largest tropical wetland. Located in Brazil’s middle west region, it has the greatest concentration of wildlife in the Americas. With a total area half the size of France, ...

Poconã, Brazil — The Pantanal wetlands in western Brazil are famed as a paradise of biodiversity, but these days they have enormous clouds of smoke billowing over them, as raging wildfires reduce vast ...

The Nomination files produced by the States Parties are published by the World Heritage Centre at its website and/or in working documents in order to ensure transparency, access to information and to ...

In Brazil’s vast Pantanal wetlands, the world’s largest tropical wetland and home to the densest population of wild jaguars, conservationists are sounding the alarm. A species once hunted and feared ...

Wildlife conservation on land that is also economically viable is possible, according to a new study involving the University of East Anglia (UEA). The Pantanal, a vast wetland in central South ...

Having systematically monitored wild animals killed on the Brazilian federal highway BR-262, which passes through the Pantanal region, a research team from the Federal University of Mato Grosso do Sul ...

Is it possible to conciliate jaguar conservation with cattle ranching activity? To meet this challenge is one of the purposes of the Pantaneira Jaguar Project, carried out by the NGO Instituto ...