the work builds on the commitment of the city of rio to the native vegetation, in the context of the brazilian biomes, mountain ridges, beaches, and the lowlands with their lagoons, swamps, marshes, mangroves and salt marshes.

the mapping reveals a large proportion of atlantic forest exists in the city - adding the values fot the tropical rainforest, sandbanks, and mangrove swamps, shows a surface of 35 290 hectares, or about 29% of rio's territory.   provided by the instituto estadual de ambiente - inea, on this page there is a simple map of all the protected areas in the state of rio de janeiro, along with a very important set of guidelines for the prevention of fires.