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Brazil's National Parks

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 April 2009

Maria Tereza Jorge Padua ,
Alceo Magnanini  and
Russell A. Mittermeier
Maria Tereza Jorge Padua
Affiliation:
Director of the Division for the Protection of Nature (Divisão de Proteção da Natureza) of the Department of Investigation and Conservation of Nature (Departamento de Pesquisa e Conservação da Natureza)—IBDF, Rua Pacheco Leão 2040, Gávea, Guanabara, Brazil.
Alceo Magnanini
Affiliation:
Director of the Department of Investigation and Conservation of Nature of the Brazilian Forestry Development Institute (Instituto Brasileiro de Desenvolvimento Florestal—IBDF), Rua Pacheco Leao 2040, Gávea, Guanabara, Brazil.
Russell A. Mittermeier
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology and Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA.
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Brazil is the largest country in South America in both population and area, and ranks fifth largest in the world at 8,511,965 km2. Lying mainly in the tropics, its immense variety of habitat types ranges from the vast, luxuriant Amazon rain forests in the north to the Atlantic coastal forests in the east, the savannas of the central plateau and the Brazilian pine forests and flat, almost treeless pampas of the south; its great diversity of animal species includes some found nowhere else in the world.

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Research Article
Information
Oryx , Volume 12 , Issue 4 , June 1974 , pp. 452 - 464
Copyright
Copyright © Fauna and Flora International 1974

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