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	MSN Encarta - National Parks and Nature Reserves
		Many national parks and nature reserves are affected by a conflict between the needs of conservation and recreation; by their sheer numbers, visitors may unintentionally destroy the landscapes or interfere with the flora and fauna that the parks were created to protect.
		The designation of national parks and nature reserves can also conflict with other possible uses for the land and resources, especially in the relatively remote, sparsely populated, and politically unimportant areas which tend to be most suitable for conservation.
		The concept of national parks then spread to Canada and New Zealand during the 1880s and several more parks had been established in all four countries by 1909, when the first national park in Europe was designated in Sweden.
	uk.encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_781528702/National_Parks_and_Nature_Reserves.html (993 words)

	Tumucumaque National Park - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Tumucumaque National Park is situated in northwestern Brazil inside the Amazon Rainforest state of Amapá.
		It was declared a national park on August 23, 2002, with the collaboration of Brazil's government and the WWF.
		See also: National parks (Brazil), Geography of Brazil.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tumucumaque_National_Park (122 words)

	WWF-UK: Brazil creates the world's largest tropical forest park
		The newly created Tumucumaque National Park, in the Brazilian state of Amap, borders French Guyana and Suriname, and covers almost 39,000 square kilometres - an area twice the size of Wales.
		The park's borders were strategically designed to protect its high biodiversity and were conceived by WWF-Brazil and Ibama - the Brazilian environmental agency - under the guidance of the Brazilian Ministry of the Environment.
		The park is also home to a large number of primates and other mammals such as sloths, jaguars, freshwater turtles and the harpy eagle.
	www.wwf.org.uk /News/n_0000000628.asp (533 words)

	protectedareas
		The principal threat to the Tumucumaque National Park is goldmining.
		TUMUCUMAQUE NATIONAL PARK: Tumucumaque Mountains National Park (2002) lies in the north of Brazil.
		Endowed with remarkable landscapes (falls and inselbergs) the National Park of La Guyane has the specificity that it is inhabited by local Amerindian and Maroon populations, who stick to their traditional way of life.
	www.wwfguianas.org /protectedareas/paenglish.htm (1396 words)

	Unique places of interest in the amazon rainforest
		Tumucumaque Mountains National Park is the biggest tropical forest protected area of the world.
		To visit Tumucumaque Mountains National Park you can go from Macapa (capital of the Amapa state) or Oiapoque, the same city that serves as a base for the Cabo Orange National Park.
		A good start is visiting the Brazilian national parks in the region, most of them don't have much infrastructure for tourists but this is quickly being developed and you should find very good conditions by the end of 2005.
	www.amazon-rainforest.org /places-of-interest.html (713 words)

	Rainforest protection scheme announced.
		The Amazonian region of Amapa will be home to the Tumucumaque National Park, which will cover almost 10,000,000 acres, an area roughly the size of Denmark.
		The national park will be funded by NGO groups from around the world, and is said to be the first of a series of protection schemes.
		Plans to introduce the world’s largest rainforest national park have been unveiled in Brazil, in a bid to stem excessive deforestation.
	www.greenconsumerguide.com /printnews.php?news=760 (205 words)

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		Plus, shortly before the World Summit in Johannesburg, Brazil created the national park ”Tumucumaque”, covering an area of 38.000 square kilometers.
		France intends to establish a national park in the rain forest of French-Guyana before the middle of 2005, without any public announcement, and thus to sacrifice an area which is reserved for the Indian population since 1970.
		A national park in the South of French-Guyana would be located right in the heart of an Indian sanctuary which was established by the French Government in the 1970ies.
	www.fpcn-global.org /print.php?sid=48 (2768 words)

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		Tumucumaque National Park in the Brazilian Amazon is the world's largest protected tropical rainforest, covering 24,135 square kilometers.
		These areas, which include rainforests but which can also be agricultural lands, national parks, reserves, forested land, marine sanctuaries and more, cover about 10 percent of the Earth's surface.
		While the IUCN has documented more than 1,388 words or terms used to describe a "protected area," national park designation remains a common way to secure the future existence of a natural resource like a rainforest.
	www.thescatter.com /story.php?story_id=130&c=5 (491 words)

	Sustainable Business Insider Article
		Covering 9.4 million acres of the northern Amazon along Brazil's boundary with French Guyana, the Tumucumaque Mountains National Park shelters rare jaguars, harpy eagles and 12 percent of all primates known to exist in the entire Brazilian Amazon.
		Tumucumaque Mountains National Park is part of this plan.
		Canada's current 39 national parks cover an area close to the size of Britain - 225,000 square kilometres (87,000 square miles).
	www.sustainablebusiness.com /features/feature_template.cfm?ID=840 (1441 words)

	WWF Forests Featured Projects ARPA
		Tumucumaque Mountains National Park, the first national park formally established by the government of Brazil, was announced in 2002 and is the world's largest tropical forest national park and the second largest national park overall.
		The ARPA vision creates a system of well-managed parks and other protected areas encompassing some 193,000 square miles - an area surpassing in size the entire U.S. National Park System.
		The network of parks and reserves is to be based on rigorous scientific planning and careful public consultation.
	worldwildlife.org /forests/projects/arpa.cfm (375 words)

	New Scientist Breaking News - World's largest tropical forest park created
		Brazil has announced the establishment of the Tumucumaque National Park in the north of the country - the largest tropical forest park in the world.
		At 39,000 square kilometres it is double the size of Wales, and marginally bigger than the current record holder - the Salonga National Park in the Democratic Republic of Congo in Africa.
		At the World Summit in Johannesburg next week, these partners will commit to raising US$140 million between them over the next ten years to fund national parks in Brazil.
	www.newscientist.com /article.ns?id=dn2712 (471 words)

	WWF South Park
		Over the past summer the Zakynthos National Marine Park, a protected nesting ground for the turtles, had been "irreparably damaged" by the tourist flow, the WWF said in a statement issued from its headquarters near Geneva.
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		A national conservation group is calling on the Northern Territory Government to define the Daly as a living river to prevent large scale land clearing and irrigation.
	getwwemoney.com /WWF-South-Park.html (1195 words)

	ABC Online Forum
		The Tumucumaque National Park, in the northern Amazonian state of Amapa, will cover 9,562,770 acres (3,870,000 hectares) - an area the size of Switzerland or Taiwan.
		Even though I have long experience with only one National Park, I think the problem could easily be nationwide because nobody even seems to suspect how the biodiversity is bleeding away over the years.
		Park just down the road from me in squeaky-clean Oz, not Brazil or Indonesia where government corruption is notorious.
	www2b.abc.net.au /science/scribblygum/newposts/23/topic23304.shtm (2846 words)

	Amazon Conservation Team: ACT in the News
		BRAZILIAN president Fernando Henrique Cardoso created a stir last August when he announced the creation of Tumucumaque Mountains National Park, forged out of the Amazon rainforest in Amapá State in north-east Brazil.
		On Monday, February 25, Colombia added a new national park to its network of protected areas of tropical biodiversity.
		Mapa Cultural do Tumucumaque será apresentado em Washington
	amazon.dead-city.org /news.html (416 words)

	Amazon Conservation Team: The word Tumucumaque
		BRAZILIAN president Fernando Henrique Cardoso created a stir last August when he announced the creation of Tumucumaque Mountains National Park, forged out of the Amazon rainforest in Amapá State in north-east Brazil.
		Now the park has created a new wave of interest, after the Amazon Conservation Team unveiled the Tumucumaque map at the Brazilian embassy in Washington DC last month.
		It took the title easily, covering 39,000 kilometres - an area larger than Belgium and more than 6 per cent bigger than the former number one, Salonga National Park in Africa.
	www.amazonteam.org /newscientist.html (465 words)

	YPE: Science, Sustainability, and Environmental News
		The park, called Tumucumaque National Park, is situated in the northern Amazon and covers an area greater than the state of Maryland.
		Earlier this week, Brazil created the largest tropical national park in the world.
		Delegates from nations across the world are set to begin talks at the UN World Summit on Sustainable Development being held in Johannesburg, South Africa over the next two weeks.
	www.yourplanetearth.org /index.pl?issue=20020824&mode= (173 words)

	ECOBREVES
		RIO DE JANEIRO – The Tumucumaque Mountains National Park, the world’s largest tropical forest conservation area, covers 38,000 square km in northern Brazil, and will soon add another 30,000 in neighboring French Guiana.
		The environmental aim of “31 Minutes”, also backed by the National Environment Commission, is to take a broad and pleasant approach to education, focusing on solutions rather than on conflict.
		Tumucumaque has the backing of a million dollars from the non-governmental Worldwide Fund for Nature (WWF, also known as World Wildlife Fund).
	www.tierramerica.net /2003/0414/iecobreves.shtml (660 words)

	Brazil (Country Profiles from National Geographic MapMachine)
		Tumucumaque National Park, created in 2002, is the world's largest tropical forest park.
		Text source: National Geographic Atlas of the World, Eighth Edition, 2004
		The government is making progress in conserving the tropical rain forest and protecting the indigenous people.
	plasma.nationalgeographic.com /mapmachine/profiles/br.html (412 words)

	birding facts Birding Resources by the Fat Birder
		The World`s Largest Rainforest National Park - Created in August 2002, the Tumucumaque Mountains National Park covers 3,870,000 hectares of remote, unexplored pristine forests in state of Amapá, stretching through the northern Amazon along the boundary with French Guiana.
		Tumucumaque ensures the protection of 1% of the whole Amazon Forest and issome 270,000 hectares larger than the world`s previous biggest tropical forestpark, the Salonga of the Democratic Republic of Congo`s.
		The park is nearly the size of Rio de Janeiro state and larger than Belgium.
	www.fatbirder.com /links_geo/america_south/brazil_amapa.html (505 words)

	Amazon Indians go high-tech to map their land - Science - MSNBC.com
		Those areas are just west of Tumucumaque Mountains National Park, the world's largest tropical park.
		The region that was mapped includes the Tumucumaque Indigenous Park and the Rio Paru d'Este Indigenous Land in northeast Brazil.
		The regions that were demarcated, the Tumucumaque Indigenous Park and the Rio Paru d’Este Indigenous Land, amount to a territory as big as the Netherlands.
	msnbc.msn.com /id/3077244 (925 words)

	Brazilian Government Reveals Alarming Rate of Deforestation in Amazon
		The largest area, Tumucumaque National Park (pronounced too-moo-koo-Mah-kay), covers just over 15,000 square miles and is the largest tropical forest national park in the world.
		ARPA is the largest, most ambitious effort ever made to protect tropical forests, and is planned to triple the Amazon protected area system by creating approximately 80 national parks and reserves over the coming decade, surpassing in size the entire U.S. National Park system.
		These measures include ecological and economic zoning of the Amazonian states to promote proper land use planning, adoption of a sustainable agriculture program, establishment of national forests for the sustainable production of timber and other forest products, and financing and tax incentives to encourage responsible forest management and discourage illegal logging.
	www.charitywire.com /charity151/03310.html (553 words)

	Guardian Unlimited The Guardian Brazil wraps up a slice of Amazon
		The Tumucumaque Mountains national park covers an area larger than Belgium.
		The world's biggest tropical national park was created in the Amazon yesterday by the Brazilian president, Fernando Henrique Cardoso.
		Tumucumaque consists of 9.6m acres (3.8m hectares) of forested mountains with granite outcrops rising as high as 700m.
	www.guardian.co.uk /international/story/0,3604,779230,00.html (288 words)

	Friday, 23 Aug 2002 Grist Magazine Daily Grist 23 Aug 2002
		Good news first: The Brazilian government has announced the creation of the world's largest tropical forest reserve -- the 9,562,770-acre Tumucumaque National Park, in the northern Amazonian state of Amapa.
		The bad news is that even such a large park seems like a Band-Aid effort for Brazil's rainforest, which is disappearing at the rate of more than 6,000 square miles per year -- an area about the size of Connecticut.
		Volunteers with the organization distribute faux traffic tickets to parked SUVs; the text on the tickets describes the environmental consequences of owning the gas-guzzling, oversized vehicles.
	www.grist.org /news/daily/2002/08/23 (744 words)

	List of national parks of Brazil - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		This page was last modified 00:21, 7 September 2005.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/National_parks_(Brazil) (37 words)

	Update: This Just In Travel + Leisure
		When the Brazilian government announced the creation of the 9.5 million—acre Tumucumaque Mountains National Park in August, it took a small but important step in the overall effort to protect the country's billion acres of Amazon rain forest.
		Larger than Massachusetts and Connecticut combined, Tumucumaque stretches along the French Guiana border in the northern Brazilian state of Amapá—and is the world's largest rain forest park.
		"If Brazil is able to prove that a national park can generate income for the locals, other countries, like Guyana and Suriname, will follow our example." —Paula Szuchman
	www.travelandleisure.com /Invoke.cfm?Objectid=BC524D3D-E2A2-11D6-82BD0002B3309983 (861 words)

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	WWF Amazon Conservation Results ARPA
		A squirrel monkey in the 15,000 square mile Tumucumaque National Park, which is virtually uninhabited by humans.
		In the two years since its inauguration, the ARPA program has already established over 20,000 square miles of protected areas, including the 15,000 square mile Tumucumaque National Park, the largest tropical forest national park in the world.
		Upon ARPA's certification by the World Bank, which approved the program's financial controls and operational procedures in April 2003, ARPA contributors like WWF, GEF, KfW (the German aid agency), and the Brazilian Government are set to release funding totaling more than $74 million to help establish parks and reserves, and ensure their long-term protection.
	www.worldwildlifefund.net /wildplaces/amazon/results/arpa.cfm (312 words)

	WWF's environmental and conservation work in Latin America and the Caribbean
		A team of experts from WWF, Ibama - the Brazilian Environmental Agency -, WajÃ£pi Indians and local inhabitants of the Iratapuru River Reserve are on a three-week expedition into the middle and upper tributaries of the Jari River, within the Tumucumaque Mountains National Park.
		This park, the largest protected area in a tropical region in the world, is located in the Brazilian Amazon, along the border with the French Guyana and Suriname.
		WWF's associate organization, FundaciÃ³n Vida Silvestre Argentina (FVSA), has recently acquired pristine coastline, giving the national environmental organization access to management decisions in the ValdÃ©s Peninsula protected area.
	wwfint.com /about_wwf/where_we_work/latin_america_and_caribbean (347 words)

	UN Chronicle World Wildlife Fund Partnership to Save Tropical Forests in the Amazon River Basin
		In August 2002 former President of Brazil Fernando Henrique Cardoso, announced the creation of the project's first protected area, Tumucumaque National Park, in the Brazilian state of Amapa.
		A new partnership between the World Wildlife Fund, the Government of Brazil, the World Bank, the Global Environment Facility and other partners has been formed to preserve 193,000 square miles of Amazonian forest in parks and reserves.
		Promote concrete international support and partnership for the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity, including in ecosystems, at World Heritage sites and for the protection of endangered species, in particular through the channeling of financial resources and technology to developing countries and countries with economies in transition.
	www.un.org /Pubs/chronicle/2003/webArticles/012203_amazon_river_basin.html (461 words)

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