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| Beautiful scenery of the Carajás National Forest |
Yellowstone National Park is a major
attraction for the Americans, who consider it one of the areas of greatest
natural beauty of the United States. This is the famous park Bear Yogi Bear,
for sheltering inside huge animals like bears and geology, there geysers are
the sources of natural hot water that are ejected from the ground and produce a
spectacular effect, whose jets reach up to 56 meters high and take place every
90 minutes. Despite all the development and modernity of their cities,
Americans continue to love the immense beauty of the natural landscapes of the
United States, and national parks are one of his great passions. Several of
these parks are close to some of the major cities in the country, which makes
quite a visit!
The First Brazilian Parks In
Brazil we have 71 national parks, the first was the
Itatiaia National Park in Rio de Janeiro, created on 14 June 1937 by Getulio
Vargas. Then came the Iguaçu in Parana on January 10, 1939, and the Organ
Mountains on November 30, 1939, also in Rio de Janeiro. In 1974 the Amazon
National Park was created in the municipality of Itaituba, in Pará State with
an area of 945,851.00 hectares and is managed by
ICMBio, with a concern for environmental preservation. The best time to visit
is between the months of July and December, when the rains decrease and you can
see the diversity of fauna and flora. Tourists will have the opportunity to
venture through rapids, outcrops, trails in gently rolling relief, knowing
waterfalls, sand banks, creeks, beaches and mountains of the Tapajós River.
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| Waterfall in the Park Pau Brasil |
The National Park Pau Brazil - The Newest
Recently, ie 31 October 2016 created the Pau National Park Brazil, protected area of 19 000 hectares of Atlantic Forest, located in the south of Bahia, a region that is the cradle of Brazil, the park opened doors for public viewing on Friday (28). Visits can now be scheduled from Tuesday (1st).
The event included also the opening of Romulo Visitor Center Mello, a tribute to the server, environmental analyst and president of ICMBio recently died due to a heart attack.
Importance of public use
During the ceremony, officials stressed the role of public use and visitation as protected areas management tools, approaching the company, boosting regional development and assisting the inspection, since the public presence inhibits the occurrence of environmental crimes such areas.
"The opening of a national park is always cause for celebration. And when it comes to the largest natural core of the species of tree that gave its name to our country, the symbolic value is even greater, "said Sarney Filho. According to the minister, it is essential to work the possibilities for public use, respecting the particularities of each territory.
Ricardo Soavinski, the visitation must be seen as a management tool and enhancement of conservation areas: "National parks should not be isolated areas of society, but spaces to practice conservation," he said.
The head of the National Park Pau Brazil, Fábio Faraco, also stressed the historical value of the area: "This is where Brazil began. This story needed to be told and rescued, but it only became possible thanks to the park staff, local communities and partner institutions. "
Four-year work
The planning of tourism and leisure activities was run over four years, and, in the last stage (18 months), supported by Pau National Park Strengthening Project Brazil, a partnership of ICMBio with Conservation International (CI-Brazil ), Porto Seguro Prefecture, Private Natural Heritage Reserve (RPPN) Rio Brazil, Veracel Celulose and Association Wake Trancoso.
Rodrigo Medeiros, vice president of CI-Brazil, talked about the iconic role of the Park Pau Brazil and the public use as a regional development vector and may move about 1.7 billion reais a year. "From this experience, the goal is to get projects like this to other southern protected areas of Bahia."
Medeiros took advantage of his speech to announce the launch of Abrolhos Land and Sea Fund, funding instrument and financial resources management intended initially to seven federal protected areas in the region: National parks of Pau Brazil, Monte Pascoal, Discovery and Abrolhos; Extractive reserves Corumbau and Cassurubá; and Wildlife Refuge Rio of the Friars.
The fund's resources, starting with a contribution of $ 2.1 million arising from the Global Conservation Fund (GCF) will be applied in preparing these areas for public use, tourism, recreation and environmental education.
The discovery to the public
The National Park Pau
Brazil is located in the Discovery Coast, more precisely in the Green Valley
district of Porto Seguro, Bahia south coast. Founded in 1536, the Green Valley
was one of the first Jesuits settlements in Brazil and still preserves much of
this story. Visit the site is to make a trip to our past. Moreover, historical
occupation area and anthropogenic generated consequences for the environment.
The creation of the park in 1999 and its expansion in 2010, came in order to
mitigate these impacts, protecting more than 10 000 species of fauna and flora
of the Atlantic, some endemic (only exist there), as well as important
resources water and the remaining populations of Brazil wood tree. Now open to
public use, UC offers visitors six marked trails, waterfall, landscape
observation lookouts and the "Brazil wood refuge", which brings together
in the same space young trees and ancient: an experience that delights and
excites. According to Fábio Faraco, the next attractive ecotourism to be
installed will be the rustic camping and zip lines. The head of the park
explains further that the visits are already released for cyclists. Other
visitors should seek accredited travel agencies since it will not be allowed
access to private cars in the drive. "For the general public, the
visitation may be made through tour operators in the region, which will make
the appointment with the park staff," says Faraco.
Oddball
The rich biodiversity found in the park is even more evident when it comes to the birds that live there, many of them endemic or endangered. One example is the harpy eagle (Harpy harpyja): the species has six couples living in the unit area, and three nests are monitored with cameras. Other emblematic species are the parrot-browed (rhodocorytha Amazon) and the hummingbird-balance-tailed cinnamon (Glaucis dohrnii).
To take advantage of potential size, was launched this year a project of 'Birdwatching' (Bird Watching), which, between 2016 and 2019, must map the areas of the following protected areas where the activity can be developed: Pau National Park Brazil, Refuge Vida Silvestre Rio of the Friars and RPPNs Rio and Brazil Veracel Station. "The next step is the training of the surrounding community to become drivers in this project," says Fábio Faraco.
