Tamoios Environmental Protection Area

The Tamoios Environmental Protection Area () is a park in Rio de Janeiro state in Brazil. People made this place a park to protect the natural environment. The park has forests next to the ocean, swamps with mangrove trees, rocky shores, and islands.

Place

The Tamoios Environmental Protection Area (APA) is in the town of Angra dos Reis in the Costa Verde, or "green coast" in English.
Some of the APA is on the mainland and some is on an island. The mainland part of the park is in the Marinah area. The island part of the park is on an island called Ilha Grande and on other islands in Angra dos Reis.
The APA is from Angra dos Reis from the mouth of the Mambucaba River in the west to the boundary with the municipality of Mangaratiba in the east.
The park is  in size.
The park has , but only the land and islands legally part of the park.

The mangroves in the park are important places. Many fish and animals with shells have young there.
There are also rocky coasts and restinga places that humans like because they are beautiful. Many different kinds of plants and animals live there.
There are over 100 islands in Ilha Grande Bay. 19 of the islands are part of the Tamoios Ecological Station.
The  Praia do Sul Biological Reserve and  Ilha Grande State Park are both inside the APA.
The APA also has  of land that is not fully protected.
Ilha Grande has been part of the Atlantic Forest Biosphere Reserve since 1992.
It is part of the Bocaina Mosaic of conservation units.

History

The governor of Rio de Janiero made the Tamoios Environmental Protection Area on December 5, 1982, but it took more time. It was decree number 9.452.
The decree was signed in 1986. The place was made into a park to protect the natural environment, the living things in it, and the caiçaras communities.
The plan began on 1 July 1994.

In June 2009, decree 41.921 said people could build new projects in the APA's wildlife conservation area. Before that, people were allowed to fix or build on buildings that were already there but they had not been allowed to make new ones.
Since 2011, there has been discussion about creation by the state of an Ilha Grande Marine Environmental Protection Area to control and manage the marine environment. The management plan was approved on 25 April 2013.

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