Discovery National Park, Nature reserve in Prado, Brazil.

Discovery National Park is a nature reserve in southern Bahia that protects over 21,000 hectares of Atlantic Forest. The area includes different forest zones at various elevations and provides homes for many rare animal species.

The Brazilian government created the park in 1999 as part of a larger effort to protect Atlantic Forest remnants along the Discovery Coast. This initiative came about because this forest type had already vanished almost entirely.

The name comes from the colonial period when Europeans first arrived on this coast, but the forest has always belonged to indigenous peoples. Local communities today help protect it and share their knowledge about living with the forest.

The park has no infrastructure for visitors and is not open to the public; access is limited to research and environmental education activities authorized by ICMBio. Its consultative council was set up on 1 February 2008 and the management plan was approved on 26 December 2014. The terrain is mostly flat, with sandy-clay soils covered by Atlantic Forest.

The park holds one of the most important wildlife refuges of southern Bahia and lies within the Discovery Coast World Natural Heritage Site and a Biosphere Reserve. Its Atlantic Forest fragment shelters the characid fish Mimagoniates sylvicola, the red-billed curassow and the banded cotinga.