Lalo de Almeida/Folhapress/Panos

Members of the Brazilian Institute for the Environment and Renewable Natural Resources (IBAMA) fire brigade travel to the Santa Tereza farm, in the Pantanal, where they are needed to try and control a forest fire burning on the property dedicated to livestock and environmental preservation.

Since the beginning of 2020, the Pantanal has been facing the largest destruction by burning in its history. From January to September, fires burned 3,977,000 hectares of the Pantanal, which corresponds to 26.5% of the entire biome, killing a vast amount of the region's wildlife.