This refuge is a marine bird sanctuary and is one of the most beautiful areas on the Pacific coast. Marine birds are very numerous, particularly brown pelicans, magnificent frigate birds, laughing gulls, common terns and brown boobies. Terrestrial birds include the long-tailed manakin, magpie jay, cattle egret, crested caracara, elegant trogon, white-bellied chachalaca, ringed kingfisher, sulfer-winged parakeet and turkey vulture.
The woods are predominated by evergreen species. Some of the most common trees are lancewood, bastard cedar, wild plum, gumbo-limbo, trumpet tree, dogwood, frangipani and the spiny cedar. One spiny cedar is a veritable natural monument growing beside the trail to Maven Peak-it towers 50 meters and measures 3 meters in diameter at chest height. Among the 119 types of trees in this reserve, the dominant species in the primary forest are spiny cedar, chicle and espave.
The white-tailed deer, howler, spider and white-faced monkeys, porcupines, agoutis, pacas, kinkajous, coyotes, long-nosed armadillos and margay cats are also found here.
In the sea, large populations of fish, crabs, chitons, lobster, shrimp, giant chonches and clams are present while many other species inhabit the intertidal zone and neighboring shores.
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