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Amapá Biodiversity Corridor
The Amapá Biodiversity Corridor () is an ecological corridor in the state of Amapá, Brazil. It provides a degree of integrated management for conservation units and other areas covering over 70% of the state. Organization The project to establish the Amapá Biodiversity Corridor was presented by Antônio Waldez Góes da Silva, governor of Amapá, at the 2003 Durban World Conference of Protected Areas. The proposed corridor would include marshland, tropical forest and open spaces of importance in maintaining global biodiversity. The acts that would lead to conservation measures in the corridor were signed in 2005. The corridor covers more than 70% of the state, and should allow for coordinated management of conservation units and indigenous territories in the state in line with the principles laid out in the Rio Convention on Biodiversity. The corridor and the conservation units it contains will be co-funded by the Amapá Fund. The Amapá Initiative is run by a partnership of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jari River
The Jari River, or Jary River (), is a northern tributary of the Amazon River on the border between the states of Pará and Amapá in northeastern Brazil. It is in the most downstream regions of the Amazon Basin and borders the Guiana Highlands and the Guianas to the northwest. Course The river flows through the Uatuma-Trombetas moist forests ecoregion. The source of the Jari is in the south of the Tumuk Humak Mountains, and its mouth is at the Amazon River between the municipalities of Almeirim in Pará and Vitória do Jari in Amapá. Ilha Grande de Gurupá, the second-largest island of the Amazon River Delta, is opposite of the mouth of the Jari River. Part of the river's basin is in the Maicuru Biological Reserve. The Jari River forms the western boundary of the Tumucumaque Mountains National Park. Below the park it forms the western boundary of the Rio Iratapuru Sustainable Development Reserve, created in 1997. For part of its course it runs through the Jari Ecol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amapá State Forest
The Amapá State Forest () is a state forest in the state of Amapá, Brazil. Location The Amapá State Forest is divided between the municipalities of Tartarugalzinho (7.64%), Pracuúba (4.52%), Porto Grande (7.72%), Oiapoque (24.15%), Mazagão (8.56%), Ferreira Gomes (3.64%), Calçoene (23.23%), Pedra Branca do Amaparí (6.39%), Amapá (6.32%) and Serra do Navio (7.83%). To the west it adjoins the Tumucumaque Mountains National Park and the Amapá National Forest. In the north east it adjoins the Cabo Orange National Park. It has an area of . It covers 16.5% of the state, bringing protected parts of Amapá to 63.5% of the territory. It is part of the Amapá Ecological Corridor. History The forest originated in a 2004 proposal by president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (; born Luiz Inácio da Silva; 27 October 1945), known Mononym, mononymously as Lula, is a Brazilian politician, trade unionist and former metalworker who has served as the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ecological Corridors Of Brazil
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Tumucumaque Mountains National Park
The Tumucumaque Mountains National Park (; ) is situated in the Amazon Rainforest in the Brazilian states of Amapá and Pará. It is bordered to the north by French Guiana and Suriname. History Tumucumaque was declared a national park on August 23, 2002, by the Government of Brazil, after collaboration with the WWF. It is part of the Amapá Biodiversity Corridor, created in 2003. The conservation unit is supported by the Amazon Region Protected Areas Program. Its Management Plan was published on March 10, 2010. Geography Tumucumaque Mountains National Park has an area of more than , making it the world's largest tropical forest national park and larger than Belgium. This area even reaches when including the bordering Guiana Amazonian Park, a national park in French Guiana. This combination of protected areas is still smaller than the three national parks system in the Brazil-Venezuelan border, where the Parima-Tapirapeco, Serranía de la Neblina and Pico da Neblina nat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rio Iratapuru Sustainable Development Reserve
The Rio Iratapuru Sustainable Development Reserve () is a sustainable development reserve in the state of Amapá, Brazil. It contains a well-preserved area of terra firme forest with rich fauna. The local communities that surround the reserve use it for sustainable extraction of products such as Brazil nuts. Location The Rio Iratapuru Sustainable Development Reserve is divided between the municipalities of Laranjal do Jari (69.01%), Mazagão (18.68%) and Pedra Branca do Amapari (12.1%) in Amapá. It has an area of . The Jari River forms the western boundary. The Iratapuru River, a tributary of the Jari, crosses the reserve from north to south and is fed by many tributaries. The reserve is bounded by the Waiãpi Indigenous Territory to the north and part of the Jari Ecological Station to the south. The Amapá State Forest adjoins the reserve to the east. The Jari River also forms the western boundary of the Tumucumaque Mountains National Park, just north of the reserve. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rio Curiau Environmental Protection Area
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Rio Cajari Extractive Reserve
The Rio Cajari Extractive Reserve () is an extractive reserve in the state of Amapá, Brazil. It protects a region of dense rainforest, ''cerrado'' fields and flooded riparian zones that is rich in biodiversity. Formerly it was used for rubber extraction, and later efforts were made to develop a pulp industry. Extraction of timber for sale is now prohibited. The residents, who are poorly educated and suffer poor health, engage in subsistence hunting, fishing and farming, and extract forest products such as Brazil nuts, açaí palm fruit and heart of palm. Location The Rio Cajari Extractive Reserve is divided between the municipalities of Mazagão (44.44%), Vitória do Jari (16.88%) and Laranjal do Jari (38.67%) in Amapá. It has an area of . The Cajari River, which gives its name to the reserve, drains the center of the reserve. The Amazon River forms the southeast boundary of the reserve, and the Ajuruxi River defines the northeastern boundary. Highway BR-156 runs through the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Parazinho Biological Reserve
The Parazinho Biological Reserve () is a biological reserve in the state of Amapá, Brazil. It protects an island at the mouth of the Amazon River. Location The Parazinho Biological Reserve is in the municipality of Macapá, Amapá. It has an area of . It covers an island on the north shore of the mouth of the Amazon River. The island formed in the Quaternary period, and is an example of an alluvial island. The terrain is flat with clay, silt and sand sediments deposited by the sea and the river. Soil fertility is poor to moderate. Environment Vegetation is pioneer formations of dense tropical rainforest. The action of waves and tides often causes trees on the coast to fall. Vegetation includes medium-sized trees, shrubs, some palms, mangroves and reeds. The reserve supports a program for protecting Amazon turtles. It supports migratory bird species of the ''Charadrius'', ''Calidris'' and ''Sterna'' families, and of the laughing gull (''Leucophaeus atricilla'') and lesser yell ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maracá-Jipioca Ecological Station
Maracá-Jipioca Ecological Station () is an ecological station covering two islands about offshore from Amapá, a municipality in Amapá state, Brazil. It protects an area of coastal mangroves and tropical rainforest. Location The ecological station is located on the adjacent islands Ilha de Maracá do Norte and Ilha de Maracá do Sul off the coast of Amapá, with an area of about . The reserve was created by decree of 2 June 1981 with the objective of preserving significant samples of the original coastal marine environment influenced by the Amazon river. It is part of the Amazon biosphere. It is managed by the Chico Mendes Institute for Biodiversity Conservation. The reserve is in the Amapá municipality of Amapá state. It is part of the Amapá Biodiversity Corridor, created in 2003. Environment The terrain is extremely flat, with maximum elevation of . Average annual rainfall is Temperatures range from with an average of . The climate is a tropical monsoon climate (Am) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lago Piratuba Biological Reserve
Lago Piratuba Biological Reserve () is a biological reserve in the state of Amapá, Brazil. Location The Lago Piratuba Biological Reserve, which covers , was established by decree of 16 July 1980. It is administered by the Chico Mendes Institute for Biodiversity Conservation. It covers parts of the municipalities of Pracuúba, Tartarugalzinho and Amapá in the state of Amapá. The average annual temperature is about . Annual rainfall averages more than . Relative humidity is 80%. The region is flat, formed by sediments of mixed river and ocean origin, and subject to periodic flooding. There is great diversity of plants, with dense floodplain rainforest transitioning into coastal mangrove. Fauna is also very diverse, including green sea turtle (Chelonia mydas) and leatherback sea turtle (Dermochelys coriacea), migrating or resident birds such as pelicans and osprey, and mammals such as capybara, otter and racoon in the flooded fields. The North-eastern point is not included in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jari Ecological Station
Jari Ecological Station () is an ecological station in Brazil, located in the states of Amapá and Pará, created in 1984. Location The Jari Ecological Station lies in the municipalities of Almeirim, Pará, and Mazagão, Amapá. It has an areas of . It lies in the Uatuma-Trombetas moist forests ecoregion of the Amazon biome. Altitude varies from . The Jari River drains the eastern part and the Paru River drains the south west part. In north west the main watercourse is the Carecuru River. The reserve is bounded by the Paru State Forest to the north, and the Rio Iratapuru Sustainable Development Reserve to the northeast. Environment Temperature ranges from . The vegetation is mainly land forest. Emergent trees reach . The protected unit is in excellent condition. There are traces of two old mines, which caused some changes to the landscape. Small numbers of people have settled along the Jarí River, which flows through the unit, built houses and cleared fields. The climate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fazendinha Environmental Protection Area
The Fazendinha Environmental Protection Area () is an environmental protection area in the state of Amapá, Brazil. There has been ongoing conflict between the residents and the state agency responsible for preserving the environment and developing the ecotourism potential. Location The Fazendinha Environmental Protection Area (APA) is in the municipality of Macapá, Amapá. It has an area of . It is on the north shore of the mouth of the Amazon River on the border with the municipality of Santana, from the state capital, Macapá. The APA lies between the Salvador Diniz highway to the north and the Amazon river to the south, bounded by the Igarapé Paxicu to the east and the Igarapé Fortaleza to the west. Environment Average annual temperature is about . The APA is scenically beautiful, has diverse fauna and flora and has potential as a quality ecotourism destination. The main ecosystem is '' Várzea'' forest, estuarine wetlands that are often flooded. Flora includes açaí p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
