It features an ecological trail where visitors may see and learn about wild animals rescued from abuse by the environmental police.

[3] The area now covered by the park was made a Forest Station in 1962 with the goal of finding through experiment the species best able to grow and protect the dunes of the sea coast, and also to provide a green space for the population.

[1] The park contains 11% dense rainforest of the Atlantic Forest biome (in the Morro dos Macacos), 54% restinga with different heights and species, and 35% ecosystems altered by plantation and invasions of pine and eucalyptus trees.

Researchers from the Federal University of Santa Catarina have found the footprints of big-eared opossum (Didelphis aurita) and crab-eating fox (Cerdocyon thous).

The black capuchin (Sapajus nigritus) is found in the park and gives its name to the Morro dos Macacos (Monkey Hill).

The skull tree iguana (Liolaemus occipitalis) is a rare, endangered species that lives only in the coastal dunes of Santa Catarina and Rio Grande do Sul.

It has 16 nurseries holding about 150 wild animals, victims of ill-treatment that had been seized by the environmental police, including monkeys, hawks, macaws and parrots.