Watch | Forest fire in Brazil’s Pantanal wetlands

A video on the forest fire in Pantanal, the world’s largest tropical wetland

October 27, 2020 02:54 pm | Updated 02:54 pm IST

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'.

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