José Eduardo Manzanares and Cave were perhaps the first botanists to visit the area after the signing the Peace Treaty of 1998, with a short visit in May 1998 to collect Bromeliaceae.
It is a terrestrial species and is usually found in the water that collects in the centre of bromeliads.
Mouse opossums are generally found in rainforests as they scavenge bromeliads for food.
Nests have been reported in tree cavities, on branches, in clumps of bromeliads, and on the ground under thatch palms and other dense bushes.
Bromeliaceae | ''Tillandsia recurvata'' and another ''Bromeliaceae'' species on electric wires near San Juan de los Morros |
Charles Jacques Édouard Morren (1833-1886) (E.Morren), Belgian botanist, specialist in Bromeliaceae and son of the above person
Other plant and animal species that have been restored and protected include the red-legged tortoise, the Bridled Quail-dove, the Caribbean flamingo, the White-crowned Pigeon, Eggers' mallow tree, the Virgin Islands euphorb, Hohenberg's ground bromeliad, and a unique bromeliad found nowhere else.
Hohenbergia ridleyi, a Bromeliaceae plant species endemic to Brazil
They preserve various threatened plants of Bourgogne, and also contain a range of tropical and sub-tropical genera such as Psilotum and Lycopodium, tropical aquatics such as Eichhornia and Salvinia, carnivorous plants including Sarracenia and Darlingtonia, and epiphytes including Bromeliaceae and Orchidaceae.