Wednesday, March 28, 2007

Atlantic Rain Forest - Tijuca National Park

Just came across this quote about the big national park I was impressed with in Rio de Janeiro...

"The Atlantic Rain Forest The Tijuca National Park is the largest urban natural reservation area in the world, covering an area of 3.200hec. and sheltering an enormous variety of birds and butterflies as well as "prego" and "sagui" monkeys. It is also home to hundreds of species of wildlife and plants, nowadays only found in the Atlantic Rainforest, many of them threatened by extinction."

I can believe it's the biggest urban reserve.

We saw both those species of monkeys there! The sagui is actually a marmoset (apparently the same as a tamarin but not certain) and it was the only time in the year that we saw 'monkeys' of that kind.