Intervales State Park, Brazil
S 24° 15.800 W 048° 24.737
22J E 762721 N 7314179
Intervales State Park is part of the Atlantic Forest Biological Reserve, a World Heritage Site.
Waymark Code: WMPZ8V
Location: Paraná, Brazil
Date Posted: 11/15/2015
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Intervales State Park 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.
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mmv.boku.ac.at/refbase/files/passold_anna_julia-2004-comparing_indicator.pdf
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