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 The fauna of the Natural Park of Fogo is very poor. Besides the domestic animals, other mammals don't exist. The birds on the area were studied in an intensive way, but little is known about other groups of animals. In the total, 100 species of coleopterons exists in Fogo Island. Eighty are in the Red List - 37 are extinct, in other words, classified as disappeared (GEISTHARDT 1996), 41 species were referenced in documents (GEISTHARDT 1996), 13 are endemic and 5 of those endemic species have their area to thrive limited. Thirty three species of spiders are known, of which 13 are in the Red List (SCHMIDT & GEISTHARDT 1996).
Of the 18 species of birds from in Fogo 10 exists in the area, 3 of the which are endemics (HAZEVOET 1995, HAZEVOET 1996). The 3 endemic species are dependent on the area of the Natural Park for its survival.
The size of the population of the endemic birds Gon-Gon (Pterodroma feae), it was known to be around 50 to 60 pairs in January of 1998 (the biologists' of the Natural Park of Madeira obtained this information). HAZEVOET (1982) it was known to be about 300 pairs. The species usually in the walls in the interior part of the crater, Bordeira and they flie during the day towards the sea to seek foods. The vulture (Neophron percnopterus) that formerly was seen frequently in Fogo, disappeared from this island.
Little it is still known about the gecko species and lizzards that exist in the area. In spite of, 8 species of those two families exists in Fogo, of which 6 are endemic, 1 gecko species, Mabuya fogoensis fogoensis had their existence limited to Fogo.
Natural Park of Fogo
Geomorfology and Volcanologyi
Climate
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CULTURE AND THE ENVIRONMENT 
