Acari National Park
Acari National Park is a national park in the state of Amazonas, Brazil.Location
The Acari National Park covers parts of the municipalities of Apuí, Borba and Novo Aripuanã in Amazonas.
It is north of the BR-230 Trans-Amazonian Highway in the Apuí – Jacareacanga section.
The Urupadi National Forest and the Alto Maués Ecological Station border the park to the east.
It has an area of.
It is in the Amazon biome.History
The Acari National Park was created by federal decree on 11 May 2016.
It is administered by the Chico Mendes Institute for Biodiversity Conservation.
The objective is to protect the biological diversity of the Acari, Camaiú, Sucunduri and Abacaxis rivers and their tributaries and the physical landscape, to ensure sustainability of the ecosystem services, to contribute to environmental stability in the region and to provide for development of recreational activities in contact with nature and ecotourism.
The park 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 Amanã 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.
