visitors interested in entering this or other areas of environmental protection, wild beaches, or any other region where nature is more present than humans, should read the rules of conduct, as prepared by the ministry of the environment of brazil and posted on this page.

published by the instituto chico mendes de conservação da biodiversidade, the 276-page atlas da fauna brasileira ameaçada de extinção em unidades de conservação federais (atlas of brazilian fauna threatened with extinction in federal conservation units), makes a detailed account of threatened species.

it shows that with 12.3 % of the total, and second only to the state of bahia, rio de janeiro is home to the largest percentage of threatened species in brazil.