{"id":184066,"date":"2022-05-12T21:00:52","date_gmt":"2022-05-12T15:30:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=184066"},"modified":"2022-05-12T21:00:52","modified_gmt":"2022-05-12T15:30:52","slug":"pantanal-wetland-brazilian-scientists-warn-that-the-pantanal-is-at-risk-of-collapse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/pantanal-wetland-brazilian-scientists-warn-that-the-pantanal-is-at-risk-of-collapse\/","title":{"rendered":"Pantanal Wetland: Brazilian scientists warn that the Pantanal is at risk of collapse"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
What is the News?<\/b><\/h5>\n

Pantanal Wetland (\u200b\u200b<\/span>world\u2019s largest wetland)<\/span> is at the risk of collapse due to a series of decisions that aims to open up the wetland to more intensive uses that collectively threaten the long-term survival of the Wetland.<\/span><\/p>\n

What is Pantanal Wetland?<\/b><\/h5>\n
\"Pantanal
Source: DW<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Pantanal Wetland is a natural region encompassing the world\u2019s largest tropical wetland area and the world\u2019s largest flooded grasslands.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Location: <\/b>It is located mostly within Brazil, but it extends into portions of Bolivia and Paraguay.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Vegetation:<\/b> The vegetation of the Pantanal often referred to as the \u201cPantanal complex\u201d is a mixture of plant communities\u2013 moist tropical Amazonian rainforest plants, semiarid woodland plants, Brazilian Cerrado savanna plants and plants of the Chaco savannas of Bolivia and Paraguay.<\/span><\/p>\n

Keystone Species:<\/b> The apple snail<\/strong> is a keystone species in Pantanal\u2019s ecosystem.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Wildlife:<\/b> Pantanal has the largest concentration of crocodiles in the world, with approximately 10 million caimans. The Pantanal is also home to the biggest parrot on the planet, the hyacinth macaw.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Significance: <\/b>I\u200b\u200b<\/span>n 2000, part of this ecoregion, the \u2018Pantanal Conservation Area\u2019 representing 1.3% of the Brazilian Pantanal was inscribed on UNESCO\u2019s World Heritage List.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013 In the same year, a part of Pantanal Wetland was named as UNESCO Biosphere Reserve.<\/span><\/p>\n

Source: <\/b>The post is based on the article<\/span> \u201cBrazilian scientists warn that the Pantanal is at risk of collapse\u201d <\/b>published in <\/span>Down To Earth on 8th May 2022.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What is the News? Pantanal Wetland (\u200b\u200bworld\u2019s largest wetland) is at the risk of collapse due to a series of decisions that aims to open up the wetland to more intensive uses that collectively threaten the long-term survival of the Wetland. What is Pantanal Wetland? Pantanal Wetland is a natural region encompassing the world\u2019s largest… Continue reading Pantanal Wetland: Brazilian scientists warn that the Pantanal is at risk of collapse<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,164,9],"tags":[10504,10514],"class_list":["post-184066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-international-relations-daily-factly-articles","category-public","tag-down-to-earth","tag-dte","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":1700785474,"cached_date":1704918728},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184066\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}