Law No. 5.178 providing for the Policy on Forestry of the State of Piauí. Country/Territory Brazil Territorial subdivision Piauí Document type Legislation Date 2000 (2001) Source FAO, FAOLEX Subject Forestry, Wild species & ecosystems Keyword Forest management/forest conservation Forestry protection measures Ecosystem preservation Research Environmental planning Forest fires Authorization/permit Biodiversity Classification/declassification Forest species Policy/planning Wild flora Protection of habitats Protection of species Geographical area Amazonia, Americas, Latin America and the Caribbean, North Atlantic, South America, South Atlantic Entry into force notes This Law enters into force on the day of its publication. Abstract This Law, consisting of 48 articles divided into 16 Chapters, establishes the Policy on Forestry of the State of Piauí. The Specific objectives of the Forest Policy aim to: identify, implement, manage and maintain a state system of protected areas in order to protect biological communities representative of natural forest ecosystems; facilitate and promote the development and diffusion of forestry research and technologies; promote the continuous inventory of State forest coverage, in order to allow the planning and rationalization of forest activities; promote the supply of energy and non-energy forestry products through forest management, agro-forestry and planting forest species for multiple use; carry out with the Union and Municipalities inspections in the State territory and public or private areas; create programmes of environmental recovery, afforestation, reforestation, forest management and agro-silvopastoril activities; establish educational programmes, aiming at ecological awareness, regarding the need for rational use and conservation of forest heritage; facilitate and promote the conservation, protection and recovery of water, soil and biological diversity; promote the recovery of degraded and protected areas threatened with degradation; build a programme of protection to guide the prevention and control of pests, diseases and forest fires; identify and monitor relevant plant associations, with a view to their protection; implement a database gathering forestry information; keep records of producers, traders and consumers of forestry products in the State; plan, implement and guide actions to find the dynamic balance between the supply and demand of forest raw material at regional and state levels, based on the principle of the sustainable regime and multiple use; preserve biodiversity and integrity of the patrimony of the various biomes and ecosystems of the State of Piauí; etc. Full text Portuguese Website www.legislacao.pr.gov.br