The president of the national environmental authority Ibama, Rodrigo Agostinho, spoke during a scientific seminar on the biome, attended by Minister for the Environment and Climate Change Marina Silva.
Deforestation in the Legal Amazon from August 2022 to July 2023 reached 9,001 km² from the previous year (2021/2022). The data show the best result since 2019
Today's operation aims to deepen the investigation, seeking evidence of how this scheme operated and the involvement of individuals
Minister of Mines and Energy Alexandre Silveira urged national environment authority Ibama to speed up the granting of licenses for state-run oil giant Petrobras. The Equatorial Margin region, in Amapá state, is said to have great oil potential.
The Federal Attorney General's Office asserts that the absence of the Sedimentary Area Environmental Assessment document should not hinder the licensing process.
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