[2] The reserve would be part of the proposed Trinational Biodiversity Corridor, which aims to provide forest connections between conservation units in Brazil, Paraguay and Argentina in the Upper Paraná ecoregion.

The reserve was declared a Paraguay heritage area dedicated in perpetuity to protect the forest, biological diversity and cultural resources, and to promote sustainable development.

[4] Commercially useful plants include Yerba mate (Ilex paraguariensis), Alsophila atrovirens, Anthurium plowmanii, Aspidosperma polyneuron and Phyrus species.

[5] Fauna include jaguar (Panthera onca), South American tapir (Tapirus terrestris), maned wolf (Chrysocyon brachyurus), bush dog (Speothos venaticus) and other threatened or endangered species, neotropical otter (Lontra longicaudis) and giant armadillo (Priodontes maximus).

[5] There are over 400 species of birds including red-and-green macaw (Ara chloropterus), king vulture (Sarcoramphus papa), black-fronted piping guan (Pipile jacutinga), helmeted woodpecker (Celeus galeatus) and bare-throated bellbird (Procnias nudicollis).