The Pantanal wetland in Brazil is an extraordinary ecosystem of global importance - but 17 million vertebrates were directly killed by the 2020 blazes (Photo: Heideger Nascimento)

Lula's other problem — not the Amazon, the wetlands

EU & the World

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by Steve Trent, London,

In 2020, Brazil's Pantanal wetland suffered record-breaking fires, with nearly one third of the entire ecosystem going up in smoke. This included conservation areas and parts of the wetland ecosystem that had never burned. The impact w...

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Steve Trent is co-founder and CEO of the Environmental Justice Foundation.

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The Pantanal wetland in Brazil is an extraordinary ecosystem of global importance - but 17 million vertebrates were directly killed by the 2020 blazes (Photo: Heideger Nascimento)