This Resolution requires the Brazilian Institute of Environment and Renewable Natural Resources (IBAMA) to suspend all licenses granted through delegation of authority to other organs of the National Environment System (SISNAMA), allowing the logging and exploitation of species threatened with extinction, according to the official IBAMA list, of natural species of the Biome of the Atlantic Forest, until further professional criteria can be established, based on scientific research, which can safeguard the sustainability of exploitation and the genetic conservation of exploitable species. Single paragraph. CONAMA will present, within one year, extendable by an equal period, a proposal for technical and scientific criteria for each species, referred to in the heading of this article. The occasional exploitation, without direct commercial objectives, of native flora species threatened with extinction for the consumption within rural properties of by indigenous peoples and traditional populations can be authorized when there is no other possibility to use other species and in accordance with the following directives: I – exploitation that is not superior to fifteen cubic meters by property or possession during a five year period; II – priority must be given to dead or fallen trees, through natural causes, and III –exploitation cannot exceed twenty percent of existing adult stock.
Brasil · 2001-05-24