Engenho Gargaú Private Natural Heritage Reserve

The Engenho Gargaú Private Natural Heritage Reserve (Portuguese: Reserva Particular do Patrimônio Natural Engenho Gargaú) is a private natural heritage reserve in the state of Paraíba, Brazil.

Engenho Gargaú Private Natural Heritage Reserve
Reserva Particular do Patrimônio Natural Engenho Gargaú
Nearest citySanta Rita, Paraíba
Coordinates7.021°S 34.956°W / -7.021; -34.956
Area1,058.62 hectares (2,615.9 acres)
DesignationPrivate natural heritage reserve

Establishment

The reserve covers an area of 1,058.62 hectares (2,615.9 acres) in the municipality of Santa Rita, Paraíba. It was created by decree on 15 June 1994.[1] Before it was created the reserve had been exploited for timber and agricultural crops.[2]

Fauna

It was thought that the blond capuchin monkey (Cebus flavius) was extinct, but it has been rediscovered in two Atlantic Forest fragments in Paraíba, the Camaratuba Experimental Station and the Gargaú reserve. The animals are listed as Critically Endangered on the IUCN Red List. Sample animals were captured and examined in the Gargaú reserve. They seemed healthy and sufficiently genetically diverse to form a viable population.[3] The reserve is also home to the red-handed howler (Alouatta belzebul) and common marmoset (Callithrix jacchus).[4]

Notes
    1. RPPN Engenho Gargaú – ICMBio.
    2. Feitoza, Medeiros Silva & Sabino 2016, p. 2.
    3. Mônica Mafra Valença Montenegro 2011, p. 9.
    4. Emanuel Ubaldino Torres Junior 2015, p. 7.

    Sources
    • Emanuel Ubaldino Torres Junior (25 September 2015), Conhecimento ecológico e percepção ambiental sobre primatas por uma comunidade rural no entorno da reserva particular do patrimônio natural Engenho Gargaú, Paraíba – Brasil (Thesis), Federal University of Paraiba, retrieved 2016-05-17
    • Feitoza, Camila Andrade; Medeiros Silva, Lígia Maria de; Sabino, Alberto Alves (2016), "COMPOSIÇÃO FLORÍSTICA E FITOSSOCIOLOGICA DO COMPONENTE ARBÓREO DA RESERVA PARTICULAR DO PATRIMÔNIO NATURAL (RPPN) ENGENHO GARGAÚ, SANTA RITA – PB", Revista de Biologia e Ciências da Terra, 16 (2), ISSN 1519-5228, retrieved 2016-05-17
    • Mônica Mafra Valença Montenegro (2011-12-05), Ecologia de Cebus flavius (Schreber, 1774) em remanescentes de Mata Atlântica no estado da Paraíba (Thesis), Universidade de São Paulo, retrieved 2016-05-17
    • RPPN Engenho Gargaú (in Portuguese), ICMBio, retrieved 2016-05-17
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