The Pantanal of South America is the world's largest wetland and has an abundant and diverse fauna. Although man's influence has caused many changes there are still some little disturbed areas, which offer opportunities for conservation. The authors discuss some of the threats to the region and recommend how these could be mitigated.
O Brasil, em 1943, pelo Decreto Legislativo n.° 3, tornou-se signatário da Convenção para a Proteção da Flora, da Fauna e das Belezas Cênicas Naturais dos Países da América (1940). A conceituação de parques nacionais pela convenção é a seguinte: "Entender-se-ão por parques nacionais as regiões estabelecidas para a proteção e conservação das belezas cênicas naturais, da flora e da fauna de importância nacional das quais o público pode aproveitar-se melhor ao serem postas sob a superintendência oficial."
Brazil is the largest country in South America in both population and area, and ranks fifth largest in the world at 8,511,965 km2. Lying mainly in the tropics, its immense variety of habitat types ranges from the vast, luxuriant Amazon rain forests in the north to the Atlantic coastal forests in the east, the savannas of the central plateau and the Brazilian pine forests and flat, almost treeless pampas of the south; its great diversity of animal species includes some found nowhere else in the world.
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