An estimated 23,500 square kilometers, more than 10 percent of the Pantanal, have gone up in smoke since January. There have been a record-shattering 14,764 fires in the Brazilian Pantanal this year, according to satellite data from Brazil's National Space Research Institute (INPE) - already an annual record, and increase of 214 percent from the same period last year. Above, farmers wait for the beginning of a meeting with politicians to talk about the record fires during the dry season at the wetlands.
AFP