Campo Verde Flora and Fauna Protection Area
Campo Verde Flora and Fauna Protection Area | |
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Área de Protección de Flora y Fauna Campo Verde | |
IUCN category VI (protected area with sustainable use of natural resources)[1] | |
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Location | Chihuahua, Mexico |
Coordinates | 29°55′16.2″N 108°33′44.3″W / 29.921167°N 108.562306°W |
Area | 108,067 ha (417.25 sq mi) |
Designation | Flora and fauna protection area |
Designated | 2003 |
Administrator | National Commission of Natural Protected Areas |
Campo Verde Flora and Fauna Protection Area is a protected area in northern Mexico. It covers an area of 1080.67 km2 in northwestern Chihuahua, on the border with Sinaloa. It is at the eastern edge of the Sierra Madre Occidental, where it meets the Chihuahuan Desert.[1]
Flora and fauna[]
The main plant community is oak and pine–oak woodland. Palo Blanco (Quercus laeta) is a characteristic oak species.[2]
Native mammals include American black bear (Ursus americanus), white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus), puma (Puma concolor), Mexican big-eared bat (Corynorhinus mexicanus), Zacatecan deer mouse (Peromyscus difficilis), and Chihuahuan mouse (Peromyscus polius).[2]
Native birds include the Gould's wild turkey (Meleagris gallopavo mexicanus), golden eagle (Aquila chrysaetos) eared quetzal (Euptilotis neoxenus), thick-billed parrot (Rhynchopsitta pachyrhyncha), Aztec thrush (Ridgwayia pinicola), and Bewick's wren (Thryomanes bewickii).[2]
Native reptiles include the Mexican Plateau horned lizard (Phrynosoma orbiculare), northern pigmy skink (Plestiodon parviauriculatus), Chihuahuan skink (Plestiodon multilineatus), Mexican wandering garter snake (Thamnophis errans), and blackbelly garter snake (Thamnophis melanogaster).[2]
Native amphibians include the Tarahumara salamander (Ambystoma rosaceum), Mexican tiger salamander (Ambystoma velasci), Lemos-Espinal's leopard frog (Lithobates lemosespinali), Tarahumara frog (Lithobates tarahumarae), pine toad (Incilius occidentalis), plateau toad (Anaxyrus compactilis), and Mexican Madre toad (Anaxyrus mexicanus),[2]
Conservation[]
The area was decreed a forest reserve and wildife refuge by President Lázaro Cárdenas in 1938.[2] It was re-designated a flora and fauna protection area in 2003.[1]
References[]
- ^ a b c UNEP-WCMC (2021). Protected Area Profile for Campo Verde from the World Database of Protected Areas. Accessed 4 September 2021. [1]
- ^ a b c d e f "Campo Verde". Sistema de Información, Monitoreo y Evaluación para la Conservación (SIMEC) of the Comisión Nacional de Áreas Naturales Protegidas (CONANP). Accessed 4 September 2021. [2]
- IUCN Category VI
- Flora and fauna protection areas of Mexico
- Protected areas of Chihuahua (state)
- Protected areas of the Sierra Madre Occidental