The Engenho Gargaú Private Natural Heritage Reserve ( pt, Reserva Particular do Patrimônio Natural Engenho Gargaú) is a private natural heritage reserve in the state of

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, Brazil.

Establishment

The reserve covers an area of in the municipality of

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. It was created by decree on 15 June 1994. Before it was created the reserve had been exploited for timber and agricultural crops.

Fauna

It was thought that the

blond capuchin The blond capuchin (''Sapajus flavius'') is a species of capuchin monkey endemic to northeastern Brazil. This endangered species was rediscovered in 2006. It can live in exceptionally large groups of over 150 individuals, and like other capuchin ...

monkey (Cebus flavius) was extinct, but it has been rediscovered in two Atlantic Forest fragments in Paraíba, the Camaratuba Experimental Station and the Gargaú reserve. The animals are listed as Critically Endangered on the

IUCN Red List The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List of Threatened Species, also known as the IUCN Red List or Red Data Book, founded in 1964, is the world's most comprehensive inventory of the global conservation status of biol ...

. Sample animals were captured and examined in the Gargaú reserve. They seemed healthy and sufficiently genetically diverse to form a viable population. The reserve is also home to the

red-handed howler The red-handed howler (''Alouatta belzebul'') is a vulnerable species of howler monkey, a type of New World monkey. It is endemic to Brazil, found in the southeastern Amazon and disjunctly in the Atlantic Forest between Rio Grande do Norte and ...

(Alouatta belzebul) and

common marmoset The common marmoset (''Callithrix jacchus'') also called white-tufted marmoset or white-tufted-ear marmoset is a New World monkey. It originally lived on the northeastern coast of Brazil, in the states of Piaui, Paraiba, Ceará, Rio Grande do ...

(Callithrix jacchus).

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