Tinguá Biological Reserve
Tinguá Biological Reserve is a biological reserve in the Serra do Tinguá mountains, Rio de Janeiro state, eastern Brazil.Location
The reserve, which covers, was created on 23 May 1989.
It is administered by the Chico Mendes Institute for Biodiversity Conservation.
The reserve lies in the municipalities of Duque de Caxias, Nova Iguaçu and Petrópolis in Rio de Janeiro State.
It adjoins the Jaceruba Environmental Protection Area, created in 2002, to the west.
The biome is Atlantic Forest and includes submontane, montane and upper montane rain forest.
The reserve is in the Central Rio de Janeiro Atlantic Forest Mosaic, created in 2006.Conservation
The Biological Reserve is a "strict nature reserve" under IUCN protected area category Ia.
The purpose is to fully protect the biota and other natural attributes without direct human interference.
Protected species in the reserve include southern muriqui, red myotis, Recife broad-nosed bat, ocelot, cougar, the frog species thoropa petropolitana and thoropa lutzi, Chaco eagle,
grey-winged cotinga, Salvadori's antwren, white-necked hawk and white-eared parakeet.
