Building bridges between environmental and political agendas is essential nowadays in face of the increasing human pressure on natural environments, including wetlands. Wetlands provide critical ecosystem services for humanity and can generate a considerable direct or indirect income to the local communities. To meet many of the sustainable development goals, we need to move our trajectory from the current environmental destructive development to a wiser wetland use. The current article contain a proposed agenda for the Pantanal aiming the improvement of public policy for conservation in the Pantanal, one of the largest, most diverse, and continuous inland wetland in the world. We suggest and discuss a list of 11 essential interfaces between science, policy, and development in region linked to the proposed agenda. We believe that a functional science network can booster the collaborative capability to generate creative ideas and solutions to address the big challenges faced by the Pantanal wetland.

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O objetivo deste trabalho foi comparar os índices de risco de incêndios a partir de focos de calor e definir o mais eficiente para as condições do Pantanal Sul-mato-grossense, com base em dados meteorológicos e número de focos de calor. O trabalho consistiu na análise de correlação entre variáveis meteorológicas e a ocorrência dos focos de calor, bem como a comparação entre os índices de risco de incêndios: Angströn (B), Telicyn (I), Nesterov (G), Monte Alegre (FMA) e Monte Alegre Modificada (FMA +). Foram utilizados dados meteorológicos coletados às 14 horas na estação Climatológica Principal de Nhumirim e de focos de calor da passagem noturna do NOAA (12 e 15), no período de 1999 a 2008. A velocidade do vento e a umidade relativa do ar foram as variáveis meteorológicas que apresentaram maior correlação com a ocorrência de focos de calor. Para detecção de qualquer grau de risco de incêndio, a FMA, o G e a FMA + foram os índices mais eficientes. Para a detecção de graus de risco de incêndio nas classes Muito alto e Alto, o G foi o mais eficiente, seguido da FMA. Considerando a alta probabilidade de acerto na detecção de riscos de incêndio em qualquer grau e também nas classes de Alto risco a mais, a FMA pode ser considerada a mais adequada para estimar o risco de ocorrência de incêndios para a sub-região da Nhecolândia. Palavras-chave: fórmula de Monte Alegre; queimada; focos de calor; variáveis meteorológicas.

We monitored the number of caiman (Caiman crocodilus yacare) nests in two ranches in the Brazilian Pantanal that cover an area of about 50.000 ha for 28 years (1987–2014). The number of nests was related to combinations of rainfall, water level, and number of days with temperature below 20°C, depending on the area. Most of the variation in number of nests could not be predicted by the environmental variables, but could be represented mathematically by a sine wave. We were not able to identify any external driver and suspect that the regular fluctuations may have resulted from an intrinsic population process. Presently, ranches are used as management units under the legislation for ranching Pantanal caimans. However, although some breeding females were recaptured in the area after periods of up to 21 years, most were not recaptured near nests or in general surveys of the area, suggesting that females are not strongly philopatric and that ranches do not represent isolated demographic units.