Wildfires and droughts devastate South American biodiversities

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Large swathes of forests and wetlands in South America being ravaged by disastrous wildfires

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In this file picture taken on September 13, 2020 a man gestures in a burnt area of the Pantanal, near the Transpantaneira park road which crosses the world's largest tropical wetland, in Mato Grosso State, Brazil.

She says it's part of a wider problem affecting multiple regions around the world this year, including in Brazil's Amazonas state, Australia, California, and the Gran Chaco, South America's second largest forest after the Amazon.The Pantanal, the world's largest wetlands that span Brazil, Bolivia and Paraguay, is experiencing its worst drought in 47 years.

In Paraguay, "the fires ... at the end of September and first week of October, broke all records," Eduardo Mingo, a top official at the national weather center, told AFP.Paraguay's capital Asuncion and several towns in northeastern Argentina and southern Brazil spent days and even weeks submerged under a thick fog due to the intense fires.

The Parana Delta that is home to species such as the jaguar, Pampas cat and several rodents, has been hit by fires of an unprecedented intensity since January, leaving a "desert of ashes" over tens of thousands of hectares of wetlands.

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