Brazil wetland fires threaten jaguar reserve
Brazil wetland fires threaten jaguar reserve
Issued on: 09/09/2020 - 04:50
Modified: 09/09/2020 - 04:48
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Rio de Janeiro (AFP)
Fires raging in the Pantanal, the biggest tropical wetlands on Earth, are threatening a nature reserve known as the home to the world's largest jaguar population, Brazilian authorities said Tuesday.
"The military firefighting corps sent two teams of reinforcements today to fight a fire in Encontro das Aguas State Park," the government of the state of Mato Grosso said in a statement.
"They join the 46 men already on the ground fighting the fires on this front."
Firefighters and environmental authorities also rescued two women and seven children in the region when their house was nearly engulfed by the flames, the statement said.
The Pantanal, which sits at the southern edge of the Amazon rainforest and stretches from Brazil into Paraguay and Bolivia, has been hit by record fires this year.
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Experts say most of the fires are set intentionally, typically by farmers and ranchers clearing land.
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