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Caçador National Forest. According to the National System of Nature Conservation Units, a national forest of Brazil is an area with forest cover of predominantly native species that has as its basic objective the multiple sustainable use of the forest resources and scientific research, with emphasis on methods of sustainable exploitation of native forests. [1]
A national forest (Portuguese: Floresta Nacional, FLONA) in Brazil is a type of sustainable use protected area. The primary purpose is sustainable exploitation of the forest, subject to various limits. These include a requirement to preserve at least 50% of the original forest, to preserve forest along watercourses and on steep slopes, and so on.
It is an integral part of the Atlantic Forest Biosphere Reserve and covers 73 municipalities in the state of São Paulo. It is an important complex of state and federal protected areas as it is the largest continuous stretch of Atlantic Forest in Brazil. [111] [112] Atlantic Forest Brazil: 1993 1.480.000 [113]
Deforestation in the Amazon rainforest threatens many species of tree frogs, which are very sensitive to environmental changes (pictured: giant leaf frog) A giant, bundled liana in western Brazil. Wet tropical forests are the most species-rich biome, and tropical forests in the Americas are consistently more species rich than the wet forests in ...
Extensive legal and Illegal logging destroys forests the size of a small country per year, and with it a diverse series of species through habitat destruction and habitat fragmentation. [1] In Brazil forest cover is around 59% of the total land area, equivalent to 496,619,600 hectares (ha) of forest in 2020, down from 588,898,000 hectares (ha ...
Pages in category "National forests of Brazil" The following 42 pages are in this category, out of 42 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
National forests of Brazil (42 P) S. State forests of Brazil (20 P) Pages in category "Forests of Brazil" The following 24 pages are in this category, out of 24 total.
The Amazon Region Protected Areas Program (ARPA; Portuguese: Programa Áreas Protegidas da Amazônia) is a joint initiative sponsored by government and non-government agencies to expand protection of the Amazon rainforest in Brazil.