Four drones buzz around the smoke-filled skies in the Kadiwéu Indigenous Territory in western Brazil’s Pantanal wetlands region where record-setting wildfires are raging.  A group of about two dozen local firefighters from the territory’s two brigades practice takeoffs and landings with the drones.

At a shelter for big cats in Brazil, a vet gingerly dresses wounds on a jaguar that was caught in wildfires raging in the world's largest tropical wetland.

The wildfires in the Pantanal wetlands, the world's largest tropical wetland, have raged the region since August, threatening the habitats of local wild lives there. To fight the flames, a makeshift command post has been set up,

Brazil's wetlands region called the Pantanal covers an area roughly the size of England. Although this region is typically flooded for much of the year, historic droughts have led to historic wildfires,