Campos de Manicoré Environmental Protection Area
The Campos de Manicoré Environmental Protection Area is an environmental protection area in the state of Amazonas, Brazil.Location
The Campos de Manicoré Environmental Protection Area is in the municipality of Manicoré, Amazonas.
It has an area of.
It is some distance to the north of the stretch of the Trans-Amazonian Highway between Humaitá and Apuí in the region between the Madeira River and the Aripuanã River.
The Manicoré River defines the east boundary of the APA.History
The Campos de Manicoré Environmental Protection Area was created by presidential decree on 11 April 2016.
The purpose was to protect biological diversity and control the process of occupying the region, in particular along the road being built between Santo Antônio de Matupi on BR-230 and the seat of the municipality of Manicoré on the Madeira River.
Santo Antônio do Matupí is a major centre of logging in the region.
The APA was one of five conservation units created in last week before the provisional removal of president Dilma Rousseff, totalling, all in the south of Amazonas state.
These were the fully protected Manicoré Biological Reserve with and Acari National Park with, and the sustainable use Campos de Manicoré Environmental Protection Area with, Aripuanã National Forest with and Urupadi National Forest with.
The same package expanded the Amaná National Forest by.
With these units the Dilma government had created about of new protected areas during her administration, compared to about by her predecessor Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. Her administration had also reduced the area of seven protected areas in the Amazon to allow for construction of dams on the Tapajós.
