The Wenceslau Guimarães Ecological Station () is an ecological station in the state of

Bahia Bahia () is one of the 26 Federative units of Brazil, states of Brazil, located in the Northeast Region, Brazil, Northeast Region of the country. It is the fourth-largest Brazilian state by population (after São Paulo (state), São Paulo, Mina ...

, Brazil.

Location

The Wenceslau Guimarães Ecological Station (ESEC) is in the municipality of Wenceslau Guimarães, Bahia. It has an area of . The Caminhos Ecológicos da Boa Esperança Environmental Protection Area, created in 2003, serves as a buffer zone. The ESEC is in the Rio das Almas sub-basin of the Recôncavo Sul basin. It has Atlantic Forest vegetation. Endangered mammals include

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''),

sloth Sloths are a Neotropical realm, Neotropical group of xenarthran mammals constituting the suborder Folivora, including the extant Arboreal locomotion, arboreal tree sloths and extinct terrestrial ground sloths. Noted for their slowness of move ...

, ''quaiti'' and the

black-tufted marmoset The black-tufted marmoset (''Callithrix penicillata'') is a species of New World monkey that lives primarily in the Neotropical gallery forests of the Brazilian Central Plateau. It ranges from Bahia to Paraná, and as far inland as Goiás, betwe ...

(''Callithrix penicillata''). The rare

white-necked hawk The white-necked hawk (''Buteogallus lacernulatus'') is a Vulnerable species of bird of prey in the subfamily Accipitrinae, the "true" hawks, of family Accipitridae. It is endemic to Brazil.Remsen, J. V., Jr., J. I. Areta, E. Bonaccorso, S. Clar ...

(''Buteogallus lacernulatus'') is found in the ESEC. It is threatened by deforestation, poaching and squatters.

History

The Wenceslau Guimarães Forest Reserve was created by state decree 23.842 of 29 November 1973, with an area of about . The area was redefined in 1977. The Wenceslau Guimarães Ecological Station was created by state governor decree 6.228 of 21 February 1997. It was created due to the great biological diversity of the Wenceslau Guimarães Forest Reserve, the endemic and endangered species, the need to protect the sources of the Das Almas River and the fact that the area is part of the core zone of the

Atlantic Forest Biosphere Reserve The Atlantic Forest Biosphere Reserve, or Mata Atlântica Biosphere Reserve (MABR, ), is a biosphere reserve covering remnants of the Atlantic Forest in Brazil, including fully protected and sustainable use conservation units and buffer zones. It ...

. The management plan was issued in 1997. On 19 April 2000 the boundaries of the ecological station were expanded to cover an area of . The ESEC became part of the

Central Atlantic Forest Ecological Corridor The Central Atlantic Forest Ecological Corridor ( Portuguese: ''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 Atl ...

, created in 2002.

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