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

Brazil’s new General Environmental Licensing Law (No. 15,190/2025) establishes nationwide rules for licensing activities or enterprises that use natural resources, pose pollution risks, or may cause environmental degradation. The law regulates Article 225 of the Constitution and amends key frameworks, including the Environmental Crimes Law (9,605/1998), the National System of Protected Areas (9,985/2000), and the National Environmental Policy (6,938/1981). It was published in

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

On 22 April 2025, the Brazilian state of Pará enacted Decree No. 4,613/2025, regulating Article 18 of State Law No. 6,745/2005 and formally establishing the Environmental Protection Quota (CPA) — a new legal mechanism designed to finance state-managed conservation units. The CPA represents a 1-hectare share of a fully protected conservation unit within Pará. According to the decree, the instrument “aims to ensure the creation, implementation, maintenance, restoration and man