Acari National Park

Acari National Park (Parque Nacional do Acari) is a national park in the state of Amazonas, Brazil.

Location
The Acari National Park covers parts of the municipalities of Apuí (11.77%), Borba (59.55%) and Novo Aripuanã (28.68%) 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 896410.95 ha. 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 (ICMBio). 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 2600000 ha, all in the south of Amazonas state. These were the fully protected Manicoré Biological Reserve with 359063 ha and Acari National Park with 896407 ha, and the sustainable use Campos de Manicoré Environmental Protection Area with 151993 ha, Aripuanã National Forest with 751295 ha and Urupadi National Forest with 537228 ha. The same package expanded the Amanã National Forest by 141000 ha.

With these units the Dilma government had created about 3400000 ha of new protected areas during her administration, compared to about 26800000 ha 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.