IBAMA is the acronym for Brazilian Institute for the Environment and Renewable Natural Resources, which is a federal agency responsible for environmental protection policies in Brazil.
Like environmental police power, IBAMA helps in the preservation, control, inspection and conservation of the national fauna and flora, in addition to carry out studies on the environment and grant environmental licenses to projects that may impact the nature.
Created from Law No. 7735, of February 22, 1989, IBAMA seeks preserve nature in every way, caring for and inspecting regions that are being deforested, monitoring fires in native forests, helping to combat animal smuggling, and so on.
IBAMA has given more visibility and reinforced its concern with the environment, and it is increasingly necessary to have a body that is concerned with environmental preservation.
The entity itself has a duty to pressure the government to pass laws, create more rigorous statutes and penalties against environmental crimes. In fact, in 1993 the
Ministry of the Environment, body to which IBAMA is subordinate and is the representative of rights in environmental policy.Learn more about meaning of the environment and environmental licensing.