Amaná National Forest ( pt, Floresta Nacional do Amaná) is a national forest in the state of

Pará Pará is a state of Brazil, located in northern Brazil and traversed by the lower Amazon River. It borders the Brazilian states of Amapá, Maranhão, Tocantins, Mato Grosso, Amazonas and Roraima. To the northwest are the borders of Guyana ...

, Brazil. Most of it has been allocated for use in sustainable forestry or community forestry. Mining is allowed.

Location

The Amaná National Forest is in the Amazon biome. It was created by decree on 13 February 2006 and is administered by the

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(ICMBio). It has an area of . It covers parts of the municipalities of

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and

Itaituba Itaituba is a city and municipality located in the state of Pará, Brazil, and one of the most important socioeconomic centers in the western region of the State. Location Itaituba is the fifteenth largest city (by population) in the State of ...

in the state of Pará. The forest is in the south west of the state of Pará along the border with the state of Amazonas, between the

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and the

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. To the west it adjoins the Urupadi National Forest in Amazonas, a sustainable use conservation unit created in 2016.

Usage

The Amaná National Forest is classed as

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VI (protected area with sustainable use of natural resources) with the objective of sustainable multiple use of forest resources, maintenance and protection of water resources and biodiversity, and supporting sustainable

exploitation of natural resources The exploitation of natural resources is the use of natural resources for economic growth, sometimes with a negative connotation of accompanying environmental degradation. It started to emerge on an industrial scale in the 19th century as the e ...

. Mining is allowed in the forest following the provisions of its management plan. The management plan defined six land usage zones, as follows: The 2009 annual plan authorized the grant of five forestry units totalling .

Regional conservation

The national forest was created as part of the planning process for land management and environment protection along the

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trans-Amazon highway. It is in a region that contains 12 sustainable use conservation areas and 6 fully protected areas. The fully protected areas, which cover , are the Amazônia, Jamanxim, Rio Novo and Serra do Pardo national parks, the

Nascentes da Serra do Cachimbo Biological Reserve The Nascentes da Serra do Cachimbo Biological Reserve ( pt, Reserva Biológica Nascentes da Serra do Cachimbo) is a biological reserve in the state of Pará, Brazil. The reserve protects an area in the transition between the Cerrado and Amazon bi ...

and the

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. The sustainable use areas include the Tapajós environmental protection area and the

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, Amaná, Jamanxim, Trairão, Itaituba I, Itaituba II and

national forests, covering a total of .

Notes

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