[1] The park is an important water catchment area in the basin of the Ribeira de Iguape, a tributary of the Juquiá River.

[3] The Jurupará State Park was created to protect and conserve its water resources, and to preserve the fragment of Atlantic Forest that it contains Ekos Brasil and the state's Forest Foundation worked together on developing the management plan.

[2] Threats include predatory hunting and fishing, and extraction of non-timber products, notably heart of palm.

[1] There is an estimated total of 587 species of vertebrates in the park, of which 94 are mammals, 258 birds, 161 amphibians or reptiles, and 74 fish.

Of the total number of species recorded, 46 are threatened with extinction, 141 are considered endemic and 19 are exotic.

Hunting, fishing and extraction of non-timber products, particularly palm hearts, are practiced by inhabitants, squatters and visitors.