A crusading defender of Brazil's Pantanal wetlands set himself on fire and died of burns to protest a proposed sugarcane alcohol plant. The Mato Grosso do Sul state assembly is debating a project to build alcohol plants on the upper Paraguay River, which runs through the Pantanal, the world's largest wetlands. The alcohol would be used to fuel vehicles.

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