On 1 October 2025, the state of Pará enacted Normative Instruction (IN) 5/2025, a regulatory milestone that reshapes the procedures governing in situ wildlife management within environmental licensing processes. Officially published on 3 October, the measure encompasses wildlife inventory, monitoring, deterrence, rescue and release operations, including in areas where vegetation clearing is authorised as part of activities with potential polluting or degrading impacts. The fo

Since November 2024, the international export of timber from the genera Handroanthus/Tabebuia  (known commercially as ipê), Cedrela  (cedar) and Dipteryx  (cumaru) has been subject to new controls under the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES). Their inclusion in Appendix II signals a global shift towards tighter scrutiny of high-value tropical timber — a move that will reverberate across forest-based producers, exporters and

During the second week of COP30, held in Belém from 10 to 21 November, the conference entered its most decisive stage, revealing a contrast between concrete progress—particularly within forest-related and socioenvironmental justice agendas—and significant impasses in the global energy transition. In a year in which the Amazon was selected as a strategic stage, expectations centered on transforming international commitments into tangible instruments for preservation and for th

The Legal Amazon, a region marked by stark contradictions between official data and alarming trends, recorded in April 2025 a 55%...