Serra da Bodoquena National Park

Serra da Bodoquena National Park (Portuguese: Parque Nacional da Serra da Bodoquena) is a national park in the state of Mato Grosso do Sul in Brazil. Place The park is part of the cerrado place for living things. It is 77,022 hectares (190,330 acres) in size. People made it into a park on 21 September 2000. The Chico Mendes Institute for Biodiversity Conservation runs the park. The park is in the Pantanal Biosphere Reserve, which has other parks in it too: Pantanal, Chapada dos Guimarães, and Emas national parks and Serra de Santa Bárbara, Nascentes do Rio Taquari and Pantanal de Rio Negro state parks. Parts of the park are in Porto Murtinho, Jardim, Bonito, and Bodoquena, Mato Grosso do Sul. Conservation The IUCN says this park is a IUCN protected area category II (national park). This park is there to protect the natural living things and place for its beauty and to allow people to do scientific research, learn about the environment, have outdoor fun, and visit. Protected species include the catfish Ancistrus formoso, Jaguar (Panthera onca), and cougar (Puma concolor). References Sources Media related to Parque Nacional da Serra da Bodoquena at Wikimedia Commons