Introduction
    A pine forest is constituted by a special kind of vegetation, where there is mainly the Araucaria angustifolia.
    It occupies around 196.900 km2 of the Brazilian territory, with big continuous extensions, from Rio Grande do Sul, Santa Catarina and Paraná. It is distributed also in the highly points of Serra do Mar in São Paulo and Serra da Mantiqueira between Minas Gerais and Rio de Janeiro, in places as Monte Verde and Campos do Jordão.
    For being in high places, the annual weather is around 19ºC.

    Legislation
    Its protective legislation is based practically in the same legislation that protects the Atlantic Wood.

    Flora and Fauna
    As already said, the Araucaria angustifolia  is characteristic specie of this ecosystem, and can reach up to 50 meters high. The Podocarpus lambertii grows into the pine wood forest and normally reach 15 meters high. There is also Dicksonia sellowiana, Blepharocalyx salicifolius  and Ocotea porosa.
    In relation to fauna, it has smaller diversity than the rest of the complex of ecosystems known as Atlantic Wood, because of the smaller vegetation variation, but there can be found a lot of rodents that like pines.
    Talking about the birds, special distinct to the Cyanocorax caeruleus  and Amazona petrei.