Cavalier India Defence Training Academy

This year, roughly a quarter of the vast Pantanal wetland in Brazil , one of the most biodiverse places on Earth, has burned in wildfires worsened by climate change. Fires between the cities of Miranda e Corumbá. Image by Chico Ribeiro/Governo MT. A fire has been burning in the world’s largest tropical wetlands, the Pantanal, since mid-July . The Pantanal wetlands, situated in west-central Brazil , sprawls over more than 1,50,000 sq km and also extends into Bolivia and Paraguay. The Pantanal derives its name from the Portuguese word for 'swamp'. The unprecedented fires in the wetland have attracted less attention than blazes in Australia, the Western United States and the Amazon, its northern sibling. But while the Pantanal is not a global household name, tourists in the know flock there because it is home to exceptionally high concentrations of breathtaking wildlife: Jaguars, tapirs, caymans,  endangered giant otters and bright blue hyacinth macaws. Indigenous people wa...