It provides a degree of integrated management for conservation units and other areas covering over 70% of the state.

The project to establish the Amapá Biodiversity Corridor was presented by Antônio Waldez Góes da Silva, governor of Amapá, at the 2003 Durban World Conference of Protected Areas.

[1] The proposed corridor would include marshland, tropical forest and open spaces of importance in maintaining global biodiversity.

[5] The corridor covers 10,476,117 hectares (25,887,050 acres), or 72% of the state, in 12 protected areas and five indigenous territories.

[7] The corridor includes the Juminá, Galibi, Uaça, Parque do Tumucumaque and Waiãpi indigenous territories.