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Reserva Particular Do Patrimônio Natural
A private natural heritage reserve ( pt, Reserva Particular do Patrimônio Natural – RPPN) is a type of preservation area in Brazil. The land is owned privately and may be used for research, education, eco-tourism and recreation. However, this use must be compatible with the goals of preserving the environment and maintaining biodiversity. Although the private reserves have been criticized, they are a valuable complement to publicly owned reserves. History The concept of a private natural heritage reserve (RPPN) has its origin in the "Protective forest" defined in the Forest Code of 1934, an inalienable tax-exempt area that remained the property of its owner. The term was dropped from the Forest Code of 1965, and the tax exemptions dropped the next year. However, the Hunting Code of 1967 gave property owners the ability to prevent hunting on their property. In 1977 the legal entity of a "Private Refuge for Native Animals" was introduced, in which hunting would be banned. This ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
RPPN Feliciano Miguel Abdala
RPPN may refer to: * Reserva Particular do Patrimônio Natural, a type of protected area in Brazil ** RPPN da Unisc, Santa Cruz do Sul University Private Natural Heritage Reserve * Rastriya Prajatantra Party Nepal * Rancudo Airfield (IATA code: RPPN), an List of airports in the Philippines#Military airfields, airport in Kalayaan, Palawan, Philippines {{disambig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fazenda Pacatuba Private Natural Heritage Reserve
The Fazenda Pacatuba Private Natural Heritage Reserve ( pt, Reserva Particular do Patrimônio Natural Fazenda Pacatuba) is a private natural heritage reserve in the state of Paraíba, Brazil. It protects a population of red-handed howler monkeys. Location The Fazenda Pacatuba Private Natural Heritage Reserve in the municipality of Sapé, Paraíba in the Mata Paraibana mesoregion. It has an area of , part of the larger Fazenda Pacatuba. The property belongs to the Japungú distillery. The reserve is from the municipal seat. History The Fazenda Pacatuba Private Natural Heritage Reserve was created by decree 110-N of 29 December 1995. Its purpose was to protect the red-handed howler (''Alouatta belzebul''), a primate that weighs about , lives in the trees and eats fruit and leaves. The primate is endemic to Brazil and has two unconnected populations, one in the eastern Amazon region and the other in the Atlantic Forest north of the São Francisco River. Environment The reser ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paraná (state)
Paraná () is one of the 26 states of Brazil, in the south of the country, bordered on the north by São Paulo state, on the east by the Atlantic Ocean, on the south by Santa Catarina state and the province of Misiones, Argentina, and on the west by Mato Grosso do Sul and Paraguay, with the Paraná River as its western boundary line. It is subdivided into 399 municipalities, and its capital is the city of Curitiba. Other major cities are Londrina, Maringá, Ponta Grossa, Cascavel, São José dos Pinhais and Foz do Iguaçu. The state is home to 5.4% of the Brazilian population and has 6.2% of the Brazilian GDP. Crossed by the Tropic of Capricorn, Paraná has what is left of the araucaria forest, one of the most important subtropical forests in the world. At the border with Argentina is the National Park of Iguaçu, considered by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site. At only from there, at the border with Paraguay, the largest dam in the world was built, the Hidroelétrica de Itaipu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Salto Morato Private Natural Heritage Reserve
The Salto Morato Private Natural Heritage Reserve ( pt, Reserva Natural Salto Morato is a private natural heritage reserve in the state of Paraná, Brazil. It protects an area of Atlantic Forest that is home to many endemic bird species. Location The Salto Morato Private Natural Heritage Reserve is in the municipality of Guaraqueçaba on the coast of the north of Paraná. The property has an area of . Of this, has been officially recognized as a Private Natural Heritage Reserve, but the remainder is managed in the same way and should be recognized after regularization of land titles. There are interpretive trails, a visitor center, kiosks, camping, lodging for researchers, a research center and a laboratory. There is a meteorological station that is part of the Paraná Meteorological System (SIMEPAR). Pets are not allowed. The reserve has supported scientific research from time of opening. Environment The reserve protects an area of Atlantic Forest. It includes alluvial, subm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rio Das Lontras Private Natural Heritage Reserve
The Rio das Lontras Private Natural Heritage Reserve ( pt, Reserva Particular do Patrimônio Natural Rio das Lontras) is a private natural heritage reserve in the state of Santa Catarina, Brazil. Location The Rio das Lontras Private Natural Heritage Reserve was created by decree on 3 April 2005, modified on 14 May 2009. The decree creating the reserve, which had not yet been surveyed, said it had . After a survey, the modified decree of May 2009 gave its area as . It includes land in the municipalities of São Pedro de Alcântara and Águas Mornas in the state of Santa Catarina. The average elevation is above sea level. Re reserve's streams supply the Forquilhas River, a tributary of the Cubatão River. Average temperatures range from with an average of . Annual rainfall is with no dry period but more rain in January and February. Environment The reserve covers a fragment of the Atlantic Forest The Atlantic Forest ( pt, Mata Atlântica) is a South American forest th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Santa Catarina (state)
Santa Catarina (, ) is a States of Brazil, state in the South Region, Brazil, South Region of Brazil. It is the List of Brazilian states by area, 7th smallest state in total area and the List of Brazilian states by population, 11th most populous. Additionally, it is the 9th largest settlement, with List of municipalities in Santa Catarina, 295 municipalities. The state, with 3.4% of the Brazilian population, generates 3.8% of the national GDP. Santa Catarina is bordered by Paraná (state), Paraná to the north, Rio Grande do Sul to the south, the Atlantic Ocean to the east, and the Provinces of Argentina, Argentine province of Misiones Province, Misiones to the west. The coastline is over 450 km, i.e., about half of Portugal's mainland coast. The seat of the state executive, Legislature, legislative and judiciary powers is the capital Florianópolis. Joinville, however, is the most populous city in the state. Besides Espírito Santo, Santa Catarina is the only state whose ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rio Das Furnas Private Natural Heritage Reserve
The Rio das Furnas Private Natural Heritage Reserve ( pt, Reserva Particular do Patrimônio Natural Reserva Rio das Furnas) is a private natural heritage reserve in the state of Santa Catarina, Brazil. Location The Rio das Furnas Private Natural Heritage Reserve is in the municipality of Alfredo Wagner, Santa Catarina. The Furnas River (Rio das Furnas) runs through the reserve. The reserve protects an area of moist forest nestled in a canyon. The canyon is in the Itajaí River basin in the Serra da Boa Vista, between the Cubatão, Tubarão and Tijucas basins. There are seven waterfalls, several natural pools and an archaeological site. Vegetation is the transition between dense and mixed rainforest with araucaria and altitude fields. More than 170 species of birds have been identified. Threats include invasion of seedlings from the pine A pine is any conifer tree or shrub in the genus ''Pinus'' () of the family Pinaceae. ''Pinus'' is the sole genus in the subfamily Pinoid ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
São Paulo (state)
São Paulo () is one of the Federative units of Brazil, 26 states of the Brazil, Federative Republic of Brazil and is named after Paul of Tarsus, Saint Paul of Tarsus. A major industrial complex, the state has 21.9% of the Brazilian population and is responsible for 33.9% of Brazil's GDP. São Paulo also has the List of Brazilian federative units by Human Development Index, second-highest Human Development Index (HDI) and GDP per capita, the List of Brazilian states by infant mortality, fourth-lowest infant mortality rate, the List of Brazilian states by life expectancy, third-highest life expectancy, and the List of Brazilian states by literacy rate, third-lowest rate of illiteracy among the federative units of Brazil. São Paulo alone is wealthier than Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay, and Bolivia combined. São Paulo is also the world's twenty-eighth-most populous Administrative division, sub-national entity and the most populous sub-national entity in the Americas. With more than 4 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mouth Of The Aguapeí Private Natural Heritage Reserve
The Mouth of the Aguapeí Private Natural Heritage Reserve ( pt, Reserva Particular do Patrimônio Natural Foz do Aguapeí) is a private natural heritage reserve in the state of São Paulo, Brazil. It protects an area of marshland known as the "Pantanal of São Paulo" where the Aguapeí River enters the Paraná River. Location The Mouth of the Aguapeí Private Natural Heritage Reserve (RPPN) is divided between the municipalities of Castilho, São João do Pau d'Alho and Pauliceia in the state of São Paulo. It has an area of . It is located at the mouth of the Aguapeí River on the Paraná River, and the Ilha Comprida. It forms a continuous protected area with the Aguapeí State Park, which is part of the environmental compensation for the Eng Sérgio Motta Dam. The reserve protects one of the last naturally flooded areas of the state, home to marsh deer and other species typical of this environment. It should reduce sand and clay mining, and strengthen enforcement against hunt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maurício Dantas Private Natural Heritage Ecological Reserve
The Maurício Dantas Private Natural Heritage Ecological Reserve ( pt, Reserva Particulare do Patrimônio Natural Reserva Ecológica Maurício Dantas) is a private natural heritage reserve in the state of Pernambuco, Brazil. It protects an area of dry '' caatinga'' vegetation. It was created on 12 September 1997. Location The Maurício Dantas Private Natural Heritage Ecological Reserve (RPPN) is divided between municipalities of Betânia and Floresta, Pernambuco, about from the state capital, Recife. It is part of the Fazenda Rabeca, and occupies an area of . Altitudes vary from . The property has been fenced to deter hunters, who killed a jaguar there in 1975 without the owner's permission. There are three families on the property practicing subsistence agriculture. History The Maurício Dantas Private Natural Heritage Ecological Reserve was created by ordnance 104/97-N of 12 September 1997. It was the first '' caatinga'' RPPN in Pernambuco. The land is permanently protec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mata Do Jambreiro Private Natural Heritage Reserve
Mata do Jambreiro Private Natural Heritage Reserve ( pt, Reserva Particular do Patrimônio Natural Mata de Jambreiros) is a state-regulated private natural heritage reserve to the south east of Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil. History The reserve contains of seasonal forest in the municipality of Nova Lima in the state of Minas Gerais. There was concern that the Aguas Claras Mine, opened in the 1970s, would cause environmental damage. The Vale mining company therefore leased the area to the government of Minas Gerais for twenty years, while taking responsibility for conservation measures. The Mata do Jambreiro Biological Reserve (Reserva Biológica Mata do Jambreiro) was established on 26 January 1979 when a special committee was set up to implement the reserve to preserve the local ecology. After the lease expired the mining company regained control, and created the Jambreiro Private Natural Heritage Reserve (Reserva Particular do Patrimônio Natural do Jambreiro). of hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rio Grande Do Norte
Rio Grande do Norte (, , ) is one of the states of Brazil. It is located in the northeastern region of the country, forming the northeasternmost tip of the South American continent. The name literally translates as "Great Northern River", referring to the mouth of the Potengi River. The capital and largest city is Natal. The state has 410 km (254 mi) of sandy beaches and contains Rocas Atoll, the only atoll the Atlantic Ocean. The main economic activity is tourism, followed by the extraction of petroleum (the second largest producer in the country), agriculture, fruit growing and extraction of minerals, including considerable production of seasalt, among other economic activities. The state is home to 1.7% of the Brazilian population and produces 1% of the country's GDP. In 2000-17 the murder rate rose by 655%, making Rio Grande do Norte the state with the highest murder rate in Brazil: 63.9 per 100,000. Tourist attractions in the state include the Cashew of Pirang ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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