01410naa a2200265 a 450000100080000000500110000800800410001902400520006010000250011224501020013726000090023950000200024852006210026865000220088965000130091165000160092465300270094065300160096770000240098370000210100770000220102870000210105070000170107177300560108821448032022-07-19       2022    bl uuuu     u00u1 u    #d7 ahttps://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-022-01724-z2DOI1 aCOELHO JUNIOR, M. G.  aPantanal port licence would threaten the world?s largest tropical wetland.h[electronic resource]  c2022  aCorrespondence.  aBrazil?s Pantanal is recognized as a Natural World Heritage Site and as a Wetland of International Importance by the Ramsar Convention. Brazil?s 1988 Constitution recognizes the Pantanal as ?national patrimony?, making any proposal that threatens the integrity of this biome unconstitutional. Nevertheless, on 26 January 2022 the Environmental Council of Mato Grosso State (CONSEMA) approved1 the ?preliminary licence? (the key first step in the licensing process) for a port to export soybeans that would be transported through the Pantanal on barges travelling on a waterway created by dredging the Paraguay River.  aLandscape ecology  aPantanal  aNavegação  aNatural World Heritage  aTramo Norte1 aDIELE-VIEGAS, L. M.1 aCALHEIROS, D. F.1 aSILVA NETO, E. C.1 aFEARNSIDE, P. M.1 aFERRANTE, L.  tNature Ecology & Evolutiongv. 6, p. 000-002, 2022.