Atlantic Forest SouthEast Reverves-Intervales Park, Brazi - World Heritage Sites on Waymarking.com

This UNESCO World Heritage site is called the Atlantic Forest South-East Reserves and consists of 25 separate protected areas, totaling about 470,000 half acres in total size, in the states of Paraná and São Paulo, Brazil. The reserves contain some of the most highly prized and most extensive examples of Atlantic rainforest in Brazil.

The 25 protected areas include extremely diverse biological examples including dense forests, mountain, wetlands, coastal island, dunes and a wonderful array of birds, wildlife and biome.

This waymark is for just one of the 25 reserves; Intervales State Park, which consists of 41,705 hetacre (121,000-acres), 270km south of the city of Sao Paulo, in Southeastern Brazil. It is part of the Atlantic Forest Biological Reserve, and is connected to four other protected area, which together were designated in 1999 as a World Heritage Site. The park was once a private farm, where livestock was raised.

Today less than 7 percent of the original Atlantic Forest remains. Even the remnants are being leveled at the rate of a soccer field every five minutes, according to SOS Mata Atlntica, a So Paulo-based forest conservation group. The park is part of one of the last intact expanses of a rain forest along the Atlantic coast of Brazil, a forest that used to cover more than 466,000 square miles (an area larger than Texas and California combined) but today less than 7 percent of the original Atlantic Forest remains. It is estimated that the fragments of this special rainforest are being leveled at the rate of a soccer field every five minutes, according to SOS Mata Atlntica, a So Paulo-based forest conservation group. (as reported by Christian Science Monitor (http://www.csmonitor.com/1998/1207/120798.intl.intl.8.html)


Visitor activities include birdwatching, wildlife viewing, hiking, geocaching, photography, visiting the numerous caves and several waterfalls, and relaxing.

Sources:
mmv.boku.ac.at/refbase/files/passold_anna_julia-2004-comparing_indicator.pdf


www.csmonitor.com/1998/1207/120798.intl.intl.8.html

Type: Natural Reference number: http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/893/multiple=1&unique_number=1045

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