Conservation
NKMNP is of global importance, designated by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site in 2000. Its importance is partially because the vegetation in NKMNP is essentially “pristine”, with only minor human impacts from minimal logging activity experienced in the 1980s. NKMNP encompasses the Huanchaca Plateau, which is one of the largest protected tracks of undisturbed cerrado (upland) savannahs in the Neo-tropics. This area has some of the most threatened mega-fauna in the Americas, including Ozotoceros bezoarticus (Pampas Deer), Blastocenus dichotomus (Marsh Deer), Chrysocyon brachyurus (Maned Wolf), Rhea americana (Greater Rhea), and Myrmecophaga tridacyla (Giant Anteater)
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