Legislative Assembly holds Special Session on Amazon Day

Biodiversity

Session is an invitation to reflect on the importance of the Amazon Biome

The Legislative Assembly of Amazonas (Aleam) held a Special Session in the Ruy Araújo Plenary this Tuesday (03), in reference to Amazon Day, in response to request No. 3628/2023 from deputy Sinésio Campos (PT).

According to the author, the Session is an invitation to reflect on the importance of the Amazon Biome. “Despite its importance for the planet, the Amazon has been constantly threatened by numerous predatory activities. Risks to biodiversity in the Amazon forests include deforestation, logging, fires, fragmentation, mining, fauna extinction, invasion of exotic species, wildlife trafficking and climate change. Therefore, Amazon Day invites people to be concerned about the Amazon Forest amid a worrying scenario of degradation”said the deputy.

During the Special Session, eight tribute plaques were delivered to representatives of institutions linked to the protection of the Amazon, such as the National Foundation of Indigenous Peoples (Funai); Brazilian Institute of the Environment (Ibama); Mamirauá Sustainable Development Institute; Amazonas Environmental Protection Institute (Ipaam); Socio-environmental Environmental Cleaning Project (Remada Ambiental); State Secretariat for the Environment (Sema); Municipal Secretariat for the Environment and Sustainability (Semmas) and Superintendency of the Manaus Free Trade Zone (Suframa).

Representing Governor Wilson Lima, SEMA’s Deputy Executive Secretary for Environmental Management, Fabrícia Arruda Moreira, spoke about the importance of the date.

“This day generates a lot of reflection on the Amazon as the largest tropical forest and the largest volume of fresh water in the world, with the Amazon River. But despite all this importance, the Amazon lives under constant threat, such as deforestation, fires, among others and, in this session, I invite everyone so that together with the Government of Amazonas we can work for the preservation of our Amazon”,

he stated.

The director-president of the Amazonas Environmental Protection Institute (Ipaam), Juliano Valente, extended the tribute to the department’s employees.

“The Legislative Branch honors us with this Session, recognizes our role and this is honorable, as each institution represented here provides a service to society. However, this tribute must be extended to the employees of each institution, because those who actually do the institutional service are the employees”,

declared.

Ibama superintendent, Joel Bentes, spoke about the institutional union with civil society in the protection of natural resources. He highlighted that the body is on a mission that involves civil society; indigenous peoples and riverside communities. He also highlighted that it is important to recognize these people because it is not easy to defend the forest.

“There are a series of economic and political interests. We involved a real game of interests, especially because Ibama would not get anywhere alone. The joint effort led to a 48% drop in deforestation in these first nine months of 2023, compared to the first nine months of 2022. In terms of mining, we worked hard, destroying 470 illegal mining dredgers and rafts in the state”,

exemplified.

*With information from CMM

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