I AM the sort of kid who grew up watching nature documentaries,” our jaguar-tracking guide Bruno Sartori tells us. “Now I ...

In south-west Brazil, the Pantanal stretches as far as the eye can see, between flooded plains, lush forests and stunning wildlife. Let’s take a tour of this giant wetland, the largest in the world.

These trees can live to be over a thousand years ... they pierce and crush any competitors The giant water lily (Victoria cruziana), Pantanal, Brazil. From the muddy lake bottom it shoots up ...

It has a hot, seasonally dry climate and scattered trees and tall grasses grow here. The Pantanal lies in the west of Brazil. It is hot all year round, with wet and dry seasons. A range of plants ...

The Pantanal is the world’s largest tropical wetland, created by the convergence of more than 1,200 rivers and streams rushing down from the eastern Andes and the high plateaus of the Cerrado, the ...