The Caminhos Ecológicos da Boa Esperança Environmental Protection Area ( pt, Área de Proteção Ambiental Caminhos Ecológicos da Boa Esperança) is an environmental protection area in the state of

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, Brazil.

Location

The Caminhos Ecológicos da Boa Esperança Environmental Protection Area (APA) covers parts of the municipalities of Ubaíra, Jiquiriçá, Teolândia,

Wenceslau Guimarães Wenceslau Guimarães is a municipality in the state of Bahia in the North-East region of Brazil. The municipality contains the Wenceslau Guimarães Ecological Station, created in 1995. It also contains part of the Caminhos Ecológicos da Boa E ...

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, Taperoá,

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and Valença. It has an estimated area of . It covers an area to the south of

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along the Atlantic Coast, extending inland and including the

Wenceslau Guimarães Ecological Station The Wenceslau Guimarães Ecological Station ( pt, Estação Ecológica de Wenceslau Guimarães) is an ecological station in the state of Bahia, Brazil. Location The Wenceslau Guimarães Ecological Station (ESEC) is in the municipality of Wences ...

. It adjoins the

Baía de Camamu Environmental Protection Area The Baía de Camamu Environmental Protection Area ( pt, Área de Proteção Ambiental da Baía de Camamu) is an environmental protection area in the state of Bahia, Brazil. It tries to preserve the natural vegetation of mangroves, ''restinga'' an ...

to the south.

Environment

The APA is in the

Atlantic Forest The Atlantic Forest ( pt, Mata Atlântica) is a South American forest that extends along the Atlantic coast of Brazil from Rio Grande do Norte state in the northeast to Rio Grande do Sul state in the south and inland as far as Paraguay and th ...

biome. Vegetation includes ''

restinga Restingas () are a distinct type of coastal tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forest in eastern Brazil. They form on sandy, acidic, and nutrient-poor soils, and are characterized by medium-sized trees and shrubs adapted to the drier and nut ...

'' and mangroves along the coast and rainforest in the interior, rising to montane forest. Fauna includes a wide range of mammals, birds, reptiles and so on, including endangered species such as the

southern tamandua The southern tamandua (''Tamandua tetradactyla''), also called the collared anteater or lesser anteater, is a species of anteater from South America and the island of Trinidad in the Caribbean. It is a solitary animal found in many habitats, from ...

(''Tamandua tetradactyla''),

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coati Coatis, also known as coatimundis (), are members of the family Procyonidae in the genera ''Nasua'' and ''Nasuella''. They are diurnal mammals native to South America, Central America, Mexico, and the southwestern United States. The name "c ...

and

black-tufted marmoset The black-tufted marmoset (''Callithrix penicillata''), also known as Mico-estrela in Portuguese, is a species of New World monkey that lives primarily in the Neo-tropical gallery forests of the Brazilian Central Plateau. It ranges from Bahia ...

(''Callithrix penicillata''). The main threats are deforestation, poaching and squatting in the area of permanent preservation.

History

The Caminhos Ecológicos da Boa Esperança Environmental Protection Area was created by state governor decree 8.552 of 5 June 2003. It was to be administered by the Superintendency for Forest Development and Conservation Units (SFC). The purpose was to maintain the environmental quality of the territory it covered and to act as a buffer zone for the Wenceslau Guimarães Ecological Station. It became part of the

Central Atlantic Forest Ecological Corridor The Central Atlantic Forest Ecological Corridor ( pt, Corredor Central da Mata Atlântica is an ecological corridor in the states of Espírito Santo and Bahia, Brazil. It promotes improvements to connectivity between fragments of Atlantic Forest ...

, created in 2002.

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