The Amazonas National Forest ( pt, Floresta Nacional do Amazonas) is a national forest in the state of Amazonas, Brazil.

Location

The Amazonas National Forest is in the municipalities of Barcelos and

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in the state of Amazonas. It was created by decree nº 97.546 of 1 March 1989 with an estimated area of . According to the

Chico Mendes Institute for Biodiversity Conservation The Chico Mendes Institute for Biodiversity Conservation (Portuguese: ''Instituto Chico Mendes de Conservação da Biodiversidade'', ICMBio) is the Brazilian Ministry of the Environment's administrative arm."Brazilian Federal Law 11.516/2007 (Por ...

(ICMBio) the area is . The forest is in the Upper Rio Negro region along the border of Brazil and Venezuela and the border between the states of Amazonas and Roraima. It is bordered to the west by the

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. Most of the forest is within the

Yanomami Indigenous Territory The Yanomami Indigenous Territory ( pt, Terra Indígena Yanomami) is an indigenous territory in the states of Amazonas and Roraima, Brazil. It overlaps with several federal or state conservation units. It is home to Yanomami and Ye'kuana peopl ...

. The conservation unit would be included in the proposed

Northern Amazon Ecological Corridor The Northern Amazon Ecological Corridor ( pt, Corredor Norte da Amazônia) is a proposed ecological corridor connecting conservation units and indigenous territories in the north of the Amazon rainforest of Brazil. Background The first version ...

. The vegetation is mainly dense rainforest (93%) but includes open rainforest (2%),

campinarana Campinarana (NT0158, ), also called Rio Negro Campinarana, is a neotropical ecoregion in the Amazon biome of the north west of Brazil and the east of Colombia that contains vegetation adapted to extremely poor soil. It includes savanna, scrub an ...

(2%) and areas of contact between Campinarana and dense rainforest (3%).

Conservation

The Amazonas National Forest is administered by ICMBio. It is classed as

IUCN protected area category IUCN protected area categories, or IUCN protected area management categories, are categories used to classify protected areas in a system developed by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). The enlisting of such areas is part ...

VI (protected area with sustainable use of natural resources) with the objective of sustainable multiple use of forest resources and scientific research, with emphasis on methods for sustainable exploitation of native forests. The Instituto Socioambiental (ISA) has noted that the national forest, with its goal of sustainable forestry, conflicts with the goals of the Indigenous Territories with which it overlaps. In these territories the indigenous people have the exclusive right of use according to their customs and traditions. The ISA stated in August 2011 that for this reason the Amazonas National Forest should be repealed.

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* * * * * * * {{authority control National forests of Brazil Protected areas of Amazonas (Brazilian state) Amazon basin 1989 establishments in Brazil Protected areas established in 1989