Photo credit: Onçafari-André Bittar

 

John,

Brazil’s Pantanal is an environmental wonderland home to fascinating species like giant otters, giant armadillos, and the densest population of jaguars on the planet.

But climate change and tourism are putting the world’s largest wetland in serious peril: with the land rapidly drying, record-setting fires have just killed countless animals, with some estimates in the millions.

Local groups are sounding the alarm and asking for help purchasing and protecting forever an enormous tract of 326,179 acres that will prevent exploitation and save animals and communities from future disasters.

So we’re partnering with Rainforest Trust to help make it happen. Together we’ve purchased and protected rainforest from Indonesia to Colombia – and now we can do it again. Our collective donation to the project will be matched 4x, quadrupling our impact – can you help protect the Pantanal, and power Ekō's work to protect the planet from corporate power? 

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The Pantanal isn’t as famous as the Amazon but it has become the second most popular tourist destination in South America after the Galapagos. That pressure, and the desire to install more farmland, has driven deforestation and made it increasingly hard to conserve large wilderness areas that could keep the ecosystem intact.

Add climate change to the mix and the Pantanal’s survival is at stake. Just look at this year’s fires:

 

Or what it does to local wildlife:

 

The new Taquari Wetlands State Park would significantly expand protection for a critical wildlife corridor, allowing animals to safely travel away from the most touristed areas of the Pantanal. And support for a new local firefighting team could save literally millions of animals from future climate-change-driven fires.

With your help, we can support Rainforest Trust and local partners like Onçafri to make this a reality, as well as continue our campaigning to protect biodiversity worldwide, including in the Amazon. We can help buy and protect a critical part of the world’s largest wetland – our collective donation to the project will be matched 4:1, quadrupling our impact. Will you join us?

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Your donation will help power Ekō and our campaigns worldwide fighting for people and the planet.