In the context of the 30th United Nations Conference on Climate Change (COP 30), the IBGE is promoting tomorrow (12) an event to release the publication Protected Areas in the Legal Amazon: an environmental and statistical portrait, at Casa Brasil IBGE Belém, in Pará. The event will feature on-line participation from the team responsible for the publication, Marta de Oliveira Antunes, manager of Traditional Peoples and Communities; André Pelech, manager of Natural Resources Mapping; and Fernando Souza Damasco, technical manager of the Population Census. The event will also be attended by the state superintendent of Pará, Rony Helder Nogueira Cordeiro, and representatives from other public offices. There will be live broadcast on Digital IBGE.

The study provides a special section based on data that have already been released by IBGE. The statistical portrait presents the number of inhabitants in the Protected Areas, which are Conservation Areas, Indigenous Lands and Quilombola Territories in the Legal Amazon based on the 2022 Population Census. The publication provides information on the sex and age of the population; ethnic-racial belonging; literacy status of people aged 15 and over; and basic sanitation conditions in these areas. The environmental portrait addresses aspects of the region's physical and biotic environments, as well as the vegetation types predominant in these territories according to the 2023 data of the Environmental Information Database (BDiA).

Protected Areas of the Legal Amazon

The Legal Amazon covers the states of Rondônia, Acre, Amazonas, Roraima, Pará, Amapá, Tocantins, Mato Grosso and part of Maranhão, occupying more than half of the Brazilian territory.

Conservation Areas were defined as territorial spaces and their environmental resources, with relevant natural characteristics, with defined limits and conservation objectives, under a special administration regime to which adequate protection guarantees apply, and determines criteria and standards for their creation, implementation and management.

Indigenous Lands encompass lands traditionally occupied by Indigenous people, that is, those inhabited by them permanently, those used for their productive activities, those essential to the preservation of environmental resources necessary for their well-being and those necessary for their physical and cultural reproduction, according to their uses, customs and traditions.

Quilombola Territories are those used to guarantee physical, social, economic and cultural reproduction by quilombola communities, which correspond to ethnic-racial groups, according to criteria of self-attribution, with their own historical trajectory, endowed with specific territorial relationships, with a presumption of black ancestry related to resistance to historical oppression.

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Release of the publication “Protected Areas in the Legal Amazon: an environmental and statistical portrait”
Date: November 12, 2025 (Wednesday)
Time:10 am
Venue: Casa Brasil IBGE COP Belém - Recreational Space (Vadião) - Ground floor. Federal University of Pará (UFPA)
Address: Rua Augusto Corrêa, 01. Guamá University Campus - Basic Sector 1. Guamá neighborhood.