Enterprises in the Uatumã Reserve receive environmental licensing

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A tourism and sports fishing lodge, as well as two other businesses are the first to receive the document in the region, a historic action supported by Sebrae

Manaus (AM) – The Micro and Small Business Support Service (Sebrae) in partnership with the Amazonas Environmental Protection Institute (IPAAM) delivered, at the beginning of this month, three environmental licenses for the Uatumã Sustainable Development Reserve (RDS) in Amazonas. The symbolic delivery of the document was carried out by the institution’s superintendent director, Ananda Carvalho Normando Pessôa, and technical director Lamisse Said da Silva Cavalcanti to the owner of Pousada Uatumã Ecofish, João Paulo Freire.

The inn is one of the first tourism spaces to receive documentation with legal support to operate in the region. According to the owner, licensing is an achievement of an eight-year process to maintain the enterprise.

“We are receiving an opportunity, a security that we needed as a company, to be 100% legal with public bodies and the Law. This action allows us to obtain more resources to maintain our space in the reserve and guarantee improvements for the local community”,

he said.

Also according to Freire, tourism in the region has a certain season to operate, which occurs during the months of October, November and December. The delimitation caused by the dry period causes a series of difficulties throughout the year, such as maintaining agricultural and sport fishing activities.

Entrepreneur João Paulo with the environmental licensing document in hand Photo: Disclosure

For the superintendent director of Sebrae Amazonas, Ananda Carvalho, the subsidy offered by Sebrae Amazonas for entrepreneurs in the Uatumã reserve consists of looking carefully at the client’s needs.

“It is with the aim of preserving the biological diversity of the Dense Tropical Forest ecosystem of the Uatumã/Jatapu river basin and the ecosystems formed with the damming of the river that we provide this environmental licensing process so that local businesses can work to develop the region as per what the law requires, helping Amazonian entrepreneurs and preventing the destruction of the environment”,

he stated.

The institution’s technical director, Lamisse Said da Silva Cavalcanti, states that the action is a historic act, since the inn is one of the first enterprises within the RDS to receive the document.

“In Amazonas, we have more than 300 tourism companies, but only 22 have environmental licensing until the latest updates provided, and the mission of our institution is to continue promoting the development of entrepreneurship in the interior of the state based on legislation and monitoring of public bodies, which is why Sebrae maintains the feasibility of at least 10 licensing this year.”

The Uatumã Sustainable Development Reserve (RDS) was created in 1990 and is under the responsibility of the Brazilian Institute for the Environment and Renewable Natural Resources – IBAMA, with logistical and financial support from Eletronorte. It has an area of ​​560,000 hectares and is located on the left bank of the Balbina reservoir.

The Uatumã Biological Reserve is included in a region considered to be of the highest priority for the conservation of biological diversity in the Amazon and is part of the Central Amazon Ecological Corridor, which aims to strengthen and create a series of conservation units in the north channel of the Amazon River.

Environmental licensing is an important management instrument through which the public administration controls projects and activities that are effective or potentially polluting and that may cause environmental degradation.

*With information from consultancy

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