Experience All the Aymara Diversity
Private Natural Heritage Reserve
In the Aymara Natural Reserve, it is possible to spot a wide variety of birds, mammals, butterflies, and reptiles.
The property is a true ecological refuge, home to animals such as the Marsh Deer, Tapir, Giant Anteater, Crab-eating Fox, Ocelot, Monkeys, Capybaras, Coatis, Giant Otters, and even Pumas and Jaguars. Among the more than 300 bird species, highlights include the Jabiru Storks, Roseate Spoonbills, Herons, Toucans, Curassows, Parrots, and the Hyacinth Macaws that have nested in one of the trees in the lodge's courtyard.
All this diversity makes Aymara Lodge one of the best locations for birdwatchers in the country.
Wildlife
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Research
The Pantanal biome is rich in biodiversity and has suffered severe degradation in recent years, putting the biome's native fauna and flora at risk and causing changes in environmental conditions, which in turn reduces the supply of natural resources and services. The study area is located in the municipality of Poconé (MT), in the northern region of the Mato Grosso Pantanal, utilizing Aymara Lodge and neighboring properties as data collection sites. A series of protocols are used to prevent or contain the advance of wildfires in the Pantanal and other biomes; certainly, one of the most widely used is the creation of firebreaks (aceiros), which preventively remove plant matter that would serve as fuel, leaving a bare area where fire cannot propagate.
To understand how these areas were affected and which management and conservation actions will be most effective when integrating certain types of organisms, bioindicators of environmental quality are used. For this study, birds were chosen because they have high levels of sensitivity to the degradation of their living environment under different conservation circumstances, and may or may not be present in environments where environmental quality is high or low according to resources such as sites for resting, reproduction, and feeding.
In this context, firebreak areas, burned areas, and areas of intact vegetation without firebreaks or fire impact are being analyzed. The diversity of each of these environments is analyzed through statistical indices, revealing the differences and similarities between the environments according to the presence, absence, and abundance of the sampled bird species.
Pablo Edini Damião,
a biologist graduated from Unoeste in Presidente Prudente – São Paulo, he served as a volunteer during the Pantanal wildfires in 2020. He returned to evaluate the impacts of the tragedy on the biome with the following research project titled: “Influence of firebreaks for wildfire control on bird composition in the municipality of Poconé – MT, Northern Pantanal.”
