Descobrimento National Park
The Descobrimento National Park is a national park in the state of Bahia, Brazil.Location
The Descobrimento National Park is in the municipality of Prado, Bahia.
It has an area of.
It contains the Discovery Coast World Natural Heritage Site, a Biosphere Reserve.Environment
The Descobrimento National Park is in the Atlantic Forest biome.
It holds an important fragment of Atlantic Forest of the northeast plateau of Brazil, and the most important wildlife refuge of the south of Bahia.
Protected species in the park include the cougar, the characid fish Mimagoniates sylvicola and the bird species ringed woodpecker, black-headed berryeater, red-billed curassow, banded cotinga, band-tailed antwren, ochre-marked parakeet and striated softtail.Administration
The Descobrimento National Park was created by federal decree of 20 April 1999 with an area of and expanded to an area of on 6 June 2012.
It became part of the Central Atlantic Forest Ecological Corridor, created in 2002.
It is administered by the Chico Mendes Institute for Biodiversity Conservation.
The consultative council was established on 1 February 2008, and the management plan was approved on 26 December 2014.
The park is classed as IUCN protected area category II.
The objective is to preserve a natural ecosystem of great ecological relevance and scenic beauty, and to support scientific research, environmental education and interpretation, outdoors recreation and ecotourism.
