After 2.4 Million Hectares Of Brazi's Pantanal Burned Oct/Nov, It's Burning Again After Rains Failed

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Yet the rich plant and animal biodiversity of this region has been threatened by a wave of unseasonable fires since the start of the year, which have raised alarm among environmentalists, authorities and local communities. The bulk have been concentrated in the Corumbá municipality in Mato Grosso do Sul, and in the Poconé municipality in Mato Grosso, where the Panthera Brasil farm is located. They have consumed large swaths of several protected conservation areas, including parts of the Pantanal Matogrossense National Park.

Between Jan. 1 and Feb. 25, there were 3,139 fire alerts in Mato Grosso, satellite data from the University of Maryland show, with about a quarter occurring within areas with intact forest. Some 1,313 of the fire alerts recorded in that time frame – or about 42 percent – were in the Poconé municipality.

“These fires were completely atypical,” said Lieutenant Daniel Alves de Moura, who is part of the 1st Military Fire Brigade in Cuiaba, which was called to combat the fire in Porto Jofre in late January. “They were totally outside of what’s normal at this time.”

These recent fires in the Pantanal only deepened the damage already done last year, when a toxic combination of searing temperatures and high winds spurred unprecedented fires in October and November that engulfed at least 2.4 million hectares across the region.

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https://news.mongabay.com/2020/02/out-of-control-aberrant-fires-ravage-brazils-pantanal-wetlands/

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