Emílio Goeldi Museum of Para
Through an agreement with Alcoa the Emílio Goeldi Museum of Para is monitoring the fauna and flora of the State’s Juruti region, where the Company has a mining venture.
The agreement was signed in June, 2007 and will last for two years, but may be renewed. The initiative, in which Alcoa is going to invest some R$ 1.6 million, will also allow for the Environmental Control Plans’ activities relating to the region’s fauna and flora to be monitored.
 The expectation is that this partnership will guarantee all the conditions necessary for the adequate recovery of the areas that are going to be mined. In all there will be 13 teams comprising some 30 researchers from the Goeldi Museum and the Federal University of Para (UFPA), who will prepare an ecosystems’ conservation and management policy. Among the points that will be worked upon will be the setting up of an inventory of those insect and plant groups that are common to the area where Alcoa’s undertaking is located in the west of Para State.
The Emílio Goeldi Museum of Para was founded in 1866 and is known worldwide as an important study and research center into nature in the Amazon forest. It concentrates its activities on the scientific study of the Amazon’s natural, social and cultural systems.
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