Tag: wetlands

• Wednesday, February 17th 2021 - 08:48 UTC

  Re-wilding Project: the Jaguar has returned to South America wetlands after 70 years

  

  The largest predator in South America, the jaguar, has returned to the Iberá wetlands in Argentina 70 years after the species was driven to local extinction through hunting and habitat loss. Currently, only about 200 jaguars remain in Argentina.

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• Tuesday, September 15th 2020 - 09:19 UTC

  Ecological disaster: fires destroying Brazil's wetlands suffering the worst drought in 47 years

  

  Fires are raging in the wetlands of west-central Brazil, leaving behind a vast swath of charred ruins in a paradise of biodiversity. The enormous fires have destroyed nearly 12% of the world’s largest tropical wetland, partially reducing to ashes one of the most biologically diverse ecosystems on the planet.