Federal Police and Ibama seize illegal timber in Pará

Almost 500 cubic meters (m³) of irregular wood were seized by the Federal Police (PF) in a logging company located in the municipality of Senador José Porfírio, in Pará, during Operation Ligmum, together with the Brazilian Institute of the Environment and Natural Resources Renewables (Ibama), to repress environmental crimes related to the illegal exploitation of this product in the region. This Wednesday (26th), federal police and IBAMA agents, based on information that some logging companies operated without observing environmental legislation, went to the scene by helicopter and with teams on land, and verified the crime. In one of the logging companies, 497.46 (m³) of illegal wood were seized in storage, of which 370.62 (m³) were logs and 126 (m³) were sawn wood – all without Ibama licensing. At the end of the steps, the logs were donated to the Secretary of State for Transport, for use in the recovery of bridges. The sawn wood was donated to the Agricultural Defense Agency of Pará. The origin of the wood is still uncertain, but investigations indicate that it may have been illegally extracted from the Indigenous Land (TI) Trincheira Bacajá, in southwest Pará. The owner of the wood has not been located and no one has been arrested. Operation Lignum is part of a set of actions that comply with the Argument of Non-compliance with Fundamental Precept nº 709, judged by the Federal Supreme Court, which orders protection for the area of ​​the TI Trincheira Bacajá, located in the Southwest of the state. *With information from the PF

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