Córrego Grande Biological Reserve () is a biological reserve spanning the boundary 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 ...

and

Espírito Santo Espírito Santo (; ) is a state in southeastern Brazil. Its capital is Vitória, and its largest city is Serra. With an extensive coastline, the state hosts some of the country's main ports, and its beaches are significant tourist attracti ...

, Brazil.

Location

The Córrego Grande Biological Reserve covers parts of the municipalities of Mucuri, Bahia, and

Conceição da Barra Conceição da Barra is a Brazilian municipality in the state of Espírito Santo. The city is the northernmost coastal city of the state. Its population was 31,273 (2020) and its area is 1,188.044 km². Geography The municipality contains t ...

, Espírito Santo. It is named after the river of the same name that flows through the reserve from west to east. The climate is tropical, warm and mostly humid, with one or two dry months. Average annual temperature is , and average annual rainfall is . There are some species unique to the reserve, including three species of hummingbird. Protected species include

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),

jaguar The jaguar (''Panthera onca'') is a large felidae, cat species and the only extant taxon, living member of the genus ''Panthera'' that is native to the Americas. With a body length of up to and a weight of up to , it is the biggest cat spe ...

(Panthera onca),

red-browed amazon The red-browed amazon (''Amazona rhodocorytha'') is a species of parrot in the family Psittacidae. It is endemic to Atlantic Forest in eastern Brazil. It has been considered a subspecies of the blue-cheeked amazon (''Amazona dufresniana''), but ...

(Amazona rhodocorytha),

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), black-headed berryeater (Carpornis melanocephala), red-billed curassow (Crax blumenbachii), banded cotinga (Cotinga maculata), great-billed hermit (Phaethornis malaris) 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).

History

The Córrego Grande Biological Reserve of was established by decree of 12 April 1989. It is managed 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 a government agency under the administration of the Brazilian Ministry of the Environment. It is nam ...

. It became part of the Central Atlantic Forest Ecological Corridor, created in 2002. 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 part ...

Ia. It tries to preserve the biota and other natural attributes without human interference. It was established to protect part of the last remaining rainforest zone of the Atlantic Forest. 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 Grande Biological Reserve as well as the nearby Rio Preto National Forest and the

Córrego do Veado Biological Reserve Córrego do Veado Biological Reserve () is a Biological reserve (Brazil), biological reserve in the municipality of Pinheiros, Espírito Santo, Brazil. Location The reserve of was created by decree 87.590 of 20 September 1982 and decree 89.569 ...

. A buffer zone is an area around a conservation unit where human activity is subject to various rules and restrictions.

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