Santa Isabel Biological Reserve ( pt, Reserva Biológica de Santa Isabel) is a biological reserve on the coast of the municipalities of Pacatuba and

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in Sergipe, Brazil.

Location

The coastal marine reserve, with an area of , was created on 20 October 1988. It is administered by 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 ...

. It lies in the municipalities of Pacatuba and

in Sergipe state. The reserve is mainly a sandbank, with remnants of Atlantic Forest in its interior. There are some grasses, coconut trees, shrubs, lagoons and mangroves. Migratory birds include the

common tern The common tern (''Sterna hirundo'') is a seabird in the family Laridae. This bird has a circumpolar distribution, its four subspecies breeding in temperate and subarctic regions of Europe, Asia and North America. It is strongly migrator ...

(Sterna hirundo).

Tropical mockingbird The tropical mockingbird (''Mimus gilvus'') is a resident breeding bird from southern Mexico to northern and eastern South America and in the Lesser Antilles and other Caribbean islands. Taxonomy and systematics The tropical mockingbird has ...

(mimus gilvus) and

pectoral antwren The pectoral antwren (''Herpsilochmus pectoralis'') is a species of bird in the family Thamnophilidae. It is endemic to north east Brazil. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests and subtropical or tropical moist lowland fore ...

(herpsilochmus pectoralis) are endemic.

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 purpose is to protect the biota without direct human interference other than actions needed to restore and preserve the natural balance, biological diversity and natural ecological processes. The critically endangered hawksbill sea turtle (eretmochelys imbricata) is protected in the reserve.

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* * {{Biological reserve (Brazil) Biological reserves of Brazil Protected areas of Sergipe Protected areas established in 1988 1988 establishments in Brazil