Burned jaguars, fire tornadoes: Blazes in Brazil wetland deliver climate warning

Smoke from a fire rises into the air as trees burn amongst vegetation in the Pantanal, the world's largest wetland, in Pocone, Mato Grosso state, Brazil, September 3, 2020. REUTERS/Amanda Perobelli

POCONÉ, Brazil (Reuters) - A fire has been burning since mid-July in the remote wetlands of west-central Brazil, leaving in its wake a vast charred desolation bigger than New York City.

A team of veterinarians, biologists and local guides arrived in late August to prowl the bumpy dirt road known as the Trans-Pantanal Highway in pickup trucks, looking to save what injured animals they could.