The Javari-Buriti Area of Relevant Ecological Interest ( pt, Área de Relevante Interesse Ecológico Javari-Buriti) is an
area of relevant ecological interest
An area of relevant ecological interest ( pt, Área de Relevante Interesse Ecológico, Arie) is a type of protected area of Brazil with unusual natural features and with little or no human occupation.
Definition
"Area of relevant ecological inte ...
in the state of
Amazonas, Brazil.
Location
The Javari-Buriti Area of Relevant Ecological Interest (ARIE) is in the municipality of
Santo Antônio do Içá, Amazonas.
It has an area of .
It is bonded to the east by the
Jutaí-Solimões Ecological Station and to the north by the
Solimões River. The western boundary is a few kilometers east of a channel of the Solimões.
It is bounded to the south by the eastern portion of the Betânia Indigenous Territory, which overlaps with the Jutaí-Solimões Ecological Station.
History
The Javari-Buriti Area of Relevant Ecological Interest was created by federal decree 91.886 of 5 November 1985.
The purpose was to protect an area of
Buriti palm forests and associated fauna.
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 ...
IV (habitat/species management area) with the objective of maintaining natural ecosystems of regional or local importance and regulating use to make it compatible with conservation of nature.
It became part of the
Central Amazon Ecological Corridor
The Central Amazon Ecological Corridor ( pt, Corredor Ecológico Central da Amazônia) is an ecological corridor in the state of Amazonas, Brazil, that connects a number of conservation units in the Amazon rainforest. The objective is to mainta ...
, created in 2002.
The ARIE is administered by the federal
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 ...
.
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Areas of relevant ecological interest of Brazil
Protected areas of Amazonas (Brazilian state)
1985 establishments in Brazil