Brazil offers 1st forest area for concession in the Amazon

The Brazilian Forest Service (SFB) will carry out the first public forest concession in Amazonas state. Humaitá National Forest will be tendered for wood and forestry materials production through sustainable management.

This public notice is part of the Ministry of Economy’s Investment Partnership Program and should be published in the coming days. It includes a plot of three rainforest areas, totaling 200,865 hectares.

This area can produce 104,500 m³ of roundwood per year and generate annual revenue of at least R$ 2.7 million.  Pedro Neto, director general at SFB, reinforces the importance of protecting national resources in order to ensure sustainable management.

“All technical and methodological care with the environment, with communities involved, respect for institutions through federative pact. Everything is sought after, respected and observed throughout this concession process,” he says.

Concessions

The Humaitá National Forest forest concession is the first of nine similar concession projects in the Investment Partnership Program (PPI).

In forest concessions, private sector obtains the right to carry out sustainable management in a public area, through a public bidding process, based on technical and price criteria.

Management is carried out for a predetermined period of time (up to 40 years) and the concessionaire must meet a set of contractual obligations and performance indicators, formalized in a contract signed with the government.

Resources collected by the federal these concessions will arrive to Brazilian Forest Service, ICMBio, the National Forest Development Fund and the states and municipalities where the concessions are located.

In forests under concession, management is carried out, where natural resources are kept standing, while generating income and employment for populations, and contributing to local and regional economic development.