Vets heal burns of jaguar burned in Pantanal fire

Pollyanna Motinha, a vet at the Nex NoExtinction shelter on the outskirts of Brasilia, says she is increasingly seeing animals "at the top of the food chain, like jaguars" being injured in wildfires.

Veterinarian Thiago Luczinski (C) and his wife Poliana Motinha (L) stand next to Itapira, a young female jaguar that had its paws burned during recent fires in Pantanal, as she receives treatment to heal her wounds and reintroduce back into the wild at the Nex No Extintion Institute NGO in Corumba de Goias, Goias State, Brazil, on September 12, 2024. (AFP)