Córrego do Veado Biological Reserve ( pt, Reserva Biológica do Córrego do Veado) is a biological reserve in the municipality of Pinheiros,

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Location

The reserve of was created by decree 87.590 of 20 September 1982 and decree 89.569 of 23 April 1984. It is managed by the Instituto Chico Mendes de Conservação da Biodiversidade. 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. It is named after the river of the same name, the Veado River, which flows through the reserve from west to east. It lies in the Pinheiros municipality of Espírito Santo. The vegetation is semi-deciduous tropical rain forest, with very tall trees and sparse undergrowth. Although in the tropical zone, the climate is greatly influenced by the mountains.

Conservation

The Biological Reserve is a "strict nature reserve" under

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 par ...

Ia. The reserve was created to preserve a remnant of Atlantic forest in the northern part of the state. In January 2014 the Federal Public Ministry in Espírito Santo gained a court ruling that ICMBio had 180 days to delimit buffer zones around the Córrego do Veado Biological Reserve as well as the nearby

Rio Preto National Forest The Rio Preto National Forest ( pt, Floresta Nacional do Rio Preto) is a national forest in the state of Espírito Santo, Brazil. Location The Rio Preto National Forest is in the Conceição da Barra municipality of the state of Espírito Santo. ...

and the

Córrego Grande Biological Reserve Córrego Grande Biological Reserve ( pt, Reserva Biológica do Córrego Grande) is a biological reserve spanning the boundary of Bahia and Espírito Santo, Brazil. Location The Córrego Grande Biological Reserve covers parts of the municipaliti ...

. A buffer zone is an area around a conservation unit where human activity is subject to various rules and restrictions. Protected species in the Atlantic Forest biome are

northern brown howler The northern brown howler (''Alouatta guariba guariba'') is the type subspecies of the brown howler, native to Brazil. It is listed as critically endangered, with fewer than 250 individuals restricted to the vicinity of the Jequitinhonha River ...

(Alouatta guariba guariba),

oncilla The oncilla (''Leopardus tigrinus''), also known as the northern tiger cat, little spotted cat, and tigrillo, is a small spotted cat ranging from Central America to central Brazil. It is listed as Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List, and the popul ...

(Leopardus tigrinus), red-browed amazon (Amazona rhodocorytha),

scalloped antbird The scalloped antbird (''Myrmoderus ruficauda'') is a species of passerine bird in the family Thamnophilidae. It is endemic to Brazil. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forest and subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest. ...

(Myrmeciza ruficauda),

white-eared parakeet The white-eared parakeet or maroon-faced parakeet (''Pyrrhura leucotis'') is a small parrot belonging to the genus ''Pyrrhura''. As here defined, it is endemic to Atlantic Forest in eastern Brazil. The Venezuelan, grey-breasted and Pfrimer's ...

(Pyrrhura leucotis) and

ochre-marked parakeet The ochre-marked parakeet (''Pyrrhura cruentata'') is a species of parrot native to Brazil. It is also known as blue-throated parakeet and red-eared conure in English and ''tiriba-grande'', ''tiriba'', ''cara-suja'' and ''fura-mato-grande'' in P ...

(Pyrrhura cruentata).

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