Pau-Brasil Ecological Station (Bahia)

The Pau-Brasil Ecological Station (Portuguese: Estação Ecológica do Pau-Brasil is an ecological station in state of Bahia, Brazil. It protects a stand of endangered Brazil wood trees.

Pau-Brasil Ecological Station
Estação Ecológica do Pau-Brasil
IUCN category Ia (strict nature reserve)
Nearest cityPorto Seguro, Bahia
Coordinates16°22′21″S 39°10′41″W
DesignationEcological station
Created21 February 1997

Location

The Pau-Brasil Ecological Station is 16 kilometres (9.9 mi) west of Porto Seguro, at an altitude of 40 metres (130 ft).[1] The station is on the BR-367 highway between Porto Seguro and Eunápolis, and borders the Estação Veracruz, a private natural heritage reserve.[2] The dark-caped Atlantic spiny rat (Trinomys mirapitanga) is known only from the ecological station.[1]

Conservation

The Pau-Brasil Ecological Station was created by decree 6228 of 21 February 1997 with an area of 1,151 hectares (2,840 acres).[3] It was the first ecological station to be created in Brazil.[2] It protects an area of Atlantic Forest in the municipality of Porto Seguro, Bahia. Its purpose is to conserve species of the forest "in situ", especially Brazil wood (Caesalpinia echinata), and to produce seedlings of these plants for use in regenerating strategic areas of the Atlantic Forest.[3]

As of 2010 the station was being managed by the Comissão Executiva do Plano da Lavoura Cacaueira (Ceplac), a government agency responsible for cocoa farming. There were discussions over setting up a trafficked animal screening centre in the station, and selling the real estate to environmental agencies.[4]

Notes
    1. Patton 2015, p. 1011.
    2. Unidades de Conservação de Porto Seguro – Bahia.com.
    3. Estação Ecológica do Pau Brasil – Ambiente Brasil.
    4. Órgãos ambientais em Porto Seguro na Estação da Ceplac.

    Sources
    • "Estação Ecológica do Pau Brasil", Ambiente Brasil (in Portuguese), retrieved 2016-05-28
    • Órgãos ambientais em Porto Seguro na Estação da Ceplac (in Portuguese), Ceplac, 18 May 2010, retrieved 2016-05-28
    • Patton, James L. (2015-03-09), Mammals of South America, Volume 2: Rodents, University of Chicago Press, ISBN 978-0-226-16957-6, retrieved 2016-05-28
    • Juan Diego Silva Lourenço; Sergio Romero da Silva Xavier (2013), "SAMAMBAIAS DA ESTAÇÃO ECOLÓGIA DO PAU-BRASIL, PARAÍBA, BRASIL" (PDF), PESQUISAS, BOTÂNICA (in Portuguese), São Leopoldo: Instituto Anchietano de Pesquisas, 64, retrieved 2016-05-28
    • "Unidades de Conservação de Porto Seguro", Bahia.com (in Portuguese), retrieved 2016-05-28
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