Qualla: Acari National Park https://qualla.com/acari-national-park en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:08 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/6/w/v/u/acari-national-park-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Acari National Park https://qualla.com/acari-national-park Acari National Park: Introduction https://qualla.com/acari-national-park/ Photo credit Brazil_location_map.svg: NordNordWest derivative work: Виктор В (talk), CC BY-SA 3.0. In May 2016, Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff had days left in office. Impeachment proceedings were closing in, and her political future was measured in hours rather than months. In that final week, her government signed into existence five new conservation units totaling 2.6 million hectares -- all in southern Amazonas state. The largest of them, at 896,411 hectares, was Acari National Park. Whether the timing was strategic or coincidental, the result was the same: a tract of Amazon rainforest nearly the size of Lebanon gained federal protection before the political window slammed shut.

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]]> Fri, 06 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/w/v/u/acari-national-park-wp/6wvu-acari-national-park-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Acari National Park: Where Four Rivers Meet https://qualla.com/acari-national-park/ Photo credit Brazil_location_map.svg: NordNordWest derivative work: Виктор В (talk), CC BY-SA 3.0. Acari National Park sprawls across three municipalities -- Borba, which contains nearly sixty percent of the park; Novo Aripuana, with about twenty-nine percent; and Apui, holding the remaining twelve. The Trans-Amazonian Highway, that ambitious and controversial road known as BR...

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]]> Fri, 06 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/w/v/u/acari-national-park-wp/6wvu-acari-national-park-where-four-rivers-meet.mp3 0:06 2 full Acari National Park: A Conservation Sprint https://qualla.com/acari-national-park/ Photo credit Brazil_location_map.svg: NordNordWest derivative work: Виктор В (talk), CC BY-SA 3.0. The federal decree of May 11, 2016, did not create Acari in isolation. It was part of a package: the Manicore Biological Reserve at 359,063 hectares, the Campos de Manicore Environmental Protection Area at 151,993 hectares, the Aripuana National Forest at 751,295 hectares, and th...

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]]> Fri, 06 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/w/v/u/acari-national-park-wp/6wvu-acari-national-park-a-conservation-sprint.mp3 0:06 3 full Acari National Park: The Tension Between Dams and Trees https://qualla.com/acari-national-park/ Photo credit Brazil_location_map.svg: NordNordWest derivative work: Виктор В (talk), CC BY-SA 3.0. Rousseff's conservation record carried a contradiction. While her final days produced millions of hectares of new parkland, her administration had also reduced the area of seven existing protected areas in the Amazon to make way for hydroelectric dams on the Tapajos River. This t...

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]]> Fri, 06 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/w/v/u/acari-national-park-wp/6wvu-acari-national-park-the-tension-between-dams-and-trees.mp3 0:06 4 full Acari National Park: Under the Canopy https://qualla.com/acari-national-park/ Photo credit Brazil_location_map.svg: NordNordWest derivative work: Виктор В (talk), CC BY-SA 3.0. The Chico Mendes Institute for Biodiversity Conservation -- ICMBio, named for the rubber tapper and environmentalist murdered in 1988 -- administers Acari. The park's objectives extend beyond passive preservation: it aims to protect the biological diversity of four river systems,...

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