The world’s largest wetland, Brazil’s Pantanal is home to around 5,000 jaguars and is the best place on earth to see the elusive cats in the wild. And at around 70,000sq miles, the UNESCO world heritage site offers plenty of wildlife encounters, too.
Jaguars rely on the dense vegetation of the Pantanal to ambush their prey.
Photograph by Florian Kriechbaumer