Campo Verde Flora and Fauna Protection Area
Campo Verde Flora and Fauna Protection Area is a protected area in northern Mexico. It covers an area of 1080.67 km2 in northwestern Chihuahua, on the border with Sinaloa. It is at the eastern edge of the Sierra Madre Occidental, where it meets the Chihuahuan Desert.
Flora and fauna
According to the National Biodiversity Information System of Comisión Nacional para el Conocimiento y Uso de la Biodiversidad in Campo Verde Flora and Fauna Protection Area there are over 255 plant and animal species from which 32 are in at risk category and 4 are exotics.The main plant community is oak and pine–oak woodland. Palo Blanco is a characteristic oak species.
Native mammals include American black bear, white-tailed deer, puma, Mexican big-eared bat, Zacatecan deer mouse, and Chihuahuan mouse.
Native birds include the Gould's wild turkey, golden eagle eared quetzal, thick-billed parrot, Aztec thrush, and Bewick's wren.
Native reptiles include the Mexican Plateau horned lizard, northern pigmy skink, Chihuahuan skink, Mexican wandering garter snake, and blackbelly garter snake.
Native amphibians include the Tarahumara salamander, Mexican tiger salamander, Lemos-Espinal's leopard frog, Tarahumara frog, pine toad, plateau toad, and Mexican Madre toad,