South America's vast pantanal wetland may become next everglades, UNU experts warn
South America's giant Pantanal wetlands, one of the world's most bio-diverse ecosystems, is at growing risk from intensive peripheral agricultural, industrial and urban development ?problems expected to be compounded by climate change, United Nations University experts warn. Covering more than 16...Rising energy, food prices major threats to wetlands as farmers eye new areas for crops
...recognize the incalculable value of wetlands to all species ours included," says conference co-chair Paulo Teixeira, Co-ordinator of the Cuiaba-based pantanal Regional Environmental Programme, a joint effort of the United Nations University and Brazil's Federal University of Mato Grasso (UFMT), which hosted ...Report shows deforestation threatens Brazil's Pantanal
...hich comprises 41 percent of the entire basin. The pantanal is a Brazilian National Heritage site, a significa...he Brazilian Pantanal," the report produced by the pantanal Program of CI-Brazil depicts a critical situation....ly important to conserve the areas surrounding the pantanal lowlands, because they are the headwaters of the r...Pantanal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Pantanal is a tropical wetland and the world's largest wetland of any kind. It lies mostly within the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso do Sul but extends into Mato Grosso as well as into portions of Bolivia and Paraguay,...Pantanal - New World Encyclopedia
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