The corridor provides integrated management to ensure the survival all species, maintain ecological and evolutionary processes, and develop a strong regional economy based on sustainable use of natural resources.

[6] A project to create three new protected area mosaics began in December 2005, coordinated by the National Council of the Atlantic Forest Biosphere Reserve.

[7] Together the three new mosaics included 51 units covering over 900,000 hectares (2,200,000 acres) in the states of Rio de Janeiro, Minas Gerais and São Paulo.

The Central Coastal Atlantic Forest Mosaic has an area of 233,710 hectares (577,500 acres) and contains 22 conservation units and their buffer zones in Rio de Janeiro.

The Mantiqueira Mosaic has an area of 445,615 hectares (1,101,140 acres) and contains 19 conservation units and their buffer zones in Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo and Minas Gerais.