📋 Tender Overview
Brasilia (DF), 19/5/2025 - In the State of Amazonas, the Armed Forces are mobilized to intensify the combat of environmental and transf by. About 1,700 military personnel from the Navy, the Army and Aeronautics are employed in Operation Amazonian Agate 2025, conducted by the Apoena joint command. The actions occur in an area of 510 thousand km2, in the western region of the Amazon. The operation is coordinated by the Ministry of Defense and is integrated with the public security bodies and government agencies.
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The execution of planned actions - preventive and repressive against environmental and transfronting crimes - has an operation logistics involving the use of different operational means such as river patrol, hospital assistance ship, rotary wings aircraft, drones, jungle -specialized troops and recognition and hunting aircraft. The goal, according to joint command, is to ensure national sovereignty and reinforce the presence of the state in the border strip, protecting the Amazon, its natural resources and inhabitants.
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The operation is part of the Management and Operational Center of the Amazon Protection System (Censipam), a body linked to the Ministry of Defense (MD); Federal Police Agents (PF); Brazilian Intelligence Agency (Abin); Chico Mendes Institute for Biodiversity Conservation (ICMBio); National Indian Foundation (Funai); Special Secretariat of Indigenous Health (Sesai); Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Supply (MAPA); National Agency for Petroleum, Natural Gas and Fuels (ANP); Civil Police and Military Police of the State of Amazonas, among others.
Humanitarian action - In addition to preventive and repressive performance, the operation also includes care and humanitarian work to bring citizenship and essential services to indigenous, riverside populations and in hard -to -reach areas. In the region, the military mission already has about 29.5 thousand health procedures, in addition to the distribution of 83.5 thousand medicines and 4.5 dental kits, in 42 locations.
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Operation Amazonian Agate 2025-Apoena joint command is a strategic action of the Ministry of Defense, authorized by GM-MD Ordinance No. 535, of January 29, 2025. The name Apoena comes from Tupi-Guarani and means the one who sees farther or the one that sees beyond the horizon, symbolizing the strategic vision of acting in the Amazon and the commitment to preservation for preservation the future generations.
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