The Alumar Environmental Park was set up in 1996 and ever since it has been making it possible for people to have close contact with the environment through its informative and educational preservation activities. 

Located in an area of 1800 hectares that surround the aluminum plant belonging to the Alumar Consortium, the park has already received approximately 111,000 visitors who have been able to enjoy the various activities for the student public, like its environmental education projects; for adults there are teacher training courses. In 2007 alone Alumar’s Environmental Park received 6507 visitors. 

Set up with the aim of working with environmental issues and valuing studies into the region's flora and fauna and other ecological topics, in 1997 the Park started its environmental education projects and workshops with study groups, always dealing with topics linked to the environment.


Visitors can get to know the various eco-systems from going on monitored walks along the park's four interpretative nature trails: Viveiro, Marfim, Porto and Andiroba [local trees]. Two of these are reserved primarily for scientific work. 

The park also has educational and entertainment activities that take place in the environmental education workshop, the amphitheater, the plant nursery and the compost area (recycling organic waste for use as agricultural fertilizer), with talks, courses, exhibitions and specific programs aimed at recycling, planting cuttings, vegetable gardening and developing the capacity of teachers to talk about environmental issues. 

The park is involved with countless activities that focus on the community, the highlights of which are Recycling and the Reuse of Materials. The purpose of this activity is to awaken in students their awareness of the importance of recycling/reuse when it comes to environmental preservation, thereby increasing their quality of life and serving as a source of income for them. 

The Park is home to more than 200 botanical species, with a great variety of mammals, birds, reptiles and amphibians, some of which are on the endangered species list. The area is used as a resource for the preservation of local flora and fauna, distributed between mangrove swamps, marsh-land and native forest. The three-toed sloth (Choloepus didactylus), jaguarundi (Herpailurus yagaroundi), squirrel monkey (Saimiri sciurus), capuchin monkey (Cebus robustus), collared anteater (Tamanduá tetradactyla), spotted paca (Agouti paca), agouti (Dasyprocta azarae), scarlet ibis (Eudocimus ruber) and the little blue heron (Egretta caerulea) are just some of the species that may be found here.

Alumar’s Environmental Park celebrates 12 years

To celebrate its first 12 years the Alumar Environmental Park, located in São Luís, is putting on a series of ecological activities. The celebrations that are taking place between July 28 and August 2 will be enjoyed by both Company employees and members of their families. 

One of the activities that has been programmed is a workshop for making pouffes from plastic bottles. Company employees will also be able to trek along the park’s nature trails, visit the Sapling Nursery, the compost area (a set of applied techniques for controlling the decomposition of organic material) and attend a presentation on the Environmental Park and Alumar itself.