Semades

What Semades does

SEMADES (Secretaria Municipal de Meio Ambiente e Desenvolvimento Sustentável) is the municipal environmental secretariat of Manicoré, located in Amazonas state, Brazil. Founded circa 2011 and operating under the Prefeitura de Manicoré (municipality of Manicoré), it is responsible for formulating and executing local environmental and sustainable development policy in alignment with national and state-level directives. Its scope covers environmental enforcement, forest and urban fire prevention, wildlife conservation (notably the Projeto de Manejo de Quelônios at Praia de Nazaré), and community environmental education within the municipality's boundaries.

The secretariat delivers its mandate through a small team led by Secretary Rosival Ribeiro da Costa and Executive Manager Antonio Jorge Ferreira Barros. Its operational model is non-commercial: services are delivered directly to municipal residents via community lectures (e.g., Queimadas Urbanas in Manicorezinho), Brigade training courses (Curso Brigadista de Incêndio Florestal), wildlife fieldwork, and enforcement actions. There are no proprietary technology products, no software platform, and no AI components; the public-facing presence is a static Blogspot website used for communications rather than service delivery.

SEMADES coordinates institutional enforcement with federal and state bodies, notably ICMBio (Instituto Chico Mendes de Conservação da Biodiversidade) for joint operations against illegal mining (garimpo) and predatory fishing of pirarucu, and the Ministério Público for environmental compliance matters via regular meetings with the Promotor de Justiça. As a municipal government entity, it has no external funding, no pricing model, and no commercial revenue; funding flows entirely from the Prefeitura de Manicoré's municipal budget.

Name

Semades

Legal name

SEMADES - Secretaria Municipal de Meio Ambiente e Desenvolvimento Sustentável

Website

https://semades.blogspot.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2011

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

SEMADES is the municipal environmental secretariat of Manicoré, Amazonas, Brazil. It formulates and executes local environmental policy, conducts enforcement against illegal mining and fishing, runs fire brigade training, and manages a turtle conservation program for municipal residents and stakeholders.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Municipal Environmental Services

NAICS

Administration of Environmental Quality Programs (924), Administration of Conservation Programs (92412)

SIC

Sanitary Services (4950)

akta.pro industry

PRIMARYBPAIAMAB

Pollution Control & Environmental Compliance Enforcement

Business & Public Services/Public Sector & Government Administration/Environmental Protection & Natural Resources Administration

SECONDARYBPAIABAL

State/Provincial Environmental Protection & Natural Resources Administration

Business & Public Services/Public Sector & Government Administration/State/Provincial & Regional Government Administration

Keywords

• Municipal environmental services
• Environmental policy enforcement
• Wildlife conservation programs
• Forest fire brigade training
• Sustainable development governance

Headquarters

HQ city

Manicoré

HQ country

Brazil

HQ region

Latin America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Others

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels1 record

Core offering

SEMADES is the Municipal Secretariat of Environment and Sustainable Development for the municipality of Manicoré, Amazonas state, Brazil. It formulates and executes municipal environmental policy in alignment with national and state directives, delivering services such as forest fire brigade training, urban fire prevention education, turtle egg collection and incubation at Praia de Nazaré, environmental enforcement, and protection of Environmental Protection Areas. Its work is directed at municipal residents and stakeholders and is conducted jointly with ICMBio and the Ministério Público.

Product overview

Semades (Secretaria Municipal de Meio Ambiente e Desenvolvimento Sustentável) is a municipal government secretariat responsible for formulating and executing environmental and sustainable development policy in Manicoré, Amazonas, Brazil. It is not a technology or product company; it provides government services including environmental inspections, fire brigade training programs, and wildlife protection initiatives such as the Turtle Egg Management Project (Projeto de Manejo de Quelônios) at Praia de Nazaré.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Forest Fire Brigade Training Course (Curso Brigadista Incêndio Florestal)

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

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App detail

Partnerships

Three partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• ICMBio (Instituto Chico Mendes de Conservação da Biodiversidade)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerJoint environmental enforcement operations conducted by SEMADES and ICMBio targeting illegal mining (garimpo) and predatory fishing of pirarucu in the Manicoré region. This partnership combines municipal authority with federal biodiversity conservation expertise.
• Ministério Público (Public Ministry)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerRegular meetings held between SEMADES staff and the Promotor de Justiça to address all environmental issues affecting Manicoré, including enforcement priorities and compliance matters.
• Prefeitura de Manicoré (Municipal Government)coreOthersParent municipal government entity that oversees SEMADES as the Municipal Secretariat for Environment and Sustainable Development. The Mayor and other municipal officials collaborate with SEMADES on environmental initiatives such as certificate presentations at brigade training courses.

Scale indicators1 record

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights3 records

Others

• Instituto Socioambiental (ISA): Brazilian socio-environmental NGO working on indigenous land rights, conservation, and environmental policy in the Amazon. Thematically adjacent to SEMADES' environmental protection and wildlife mandate.
• WWF-Brasil: Major international environmental NGO active in the Amazon on biodiversity and forest protection. Adjacent ecosystem actor that funds and partners with public environmental bodies like SEMADES on conservation programs.

Direct peers

• Secretaria de Meio Ambiente de Parintins: Municipal environmental secretariat for Parintins, another Amazonas municipality in the same river-based Amazon context. Direct peer to SEMADES in scope, scale, and operational mandate.
• Secretaria de Meio Ambiente de Tefé: Municipal environmental secretariat for Tefé, another Amazonas municipality with similar Amazon basin environmental challenges. Most direct functional peer to SEMADES in scale, mandate, and geographic context.
• SEMA-AM (Secretaria de Estado de Meio Ambiente do Amazonas): State-level environmental authority for Amazonas, of which SEMADES is a municipal counterpart. Operates the same environmental policy and enforcement mandate one tier up, coordinating with SEMADES on cross-jurisdictional issues like illegal mining and forest fires.
• SEMMAS Manaus (Secretaria Municipal de Meio Ambiente e Sustentabilidade): Municipal environmental secretariat for Manaus, Amazonas, with the same mandate of formulating and executing local environmental policy in an Amazonian urban context. Directly comparable to SEMADES in function, though operating at much larger municipal scale.

Emerging players

• Instituto de Desenvolvimento Sustentável Mamirauá: Amazonian research and conservation institute based in Tefé, Amazonas, focused on flooded forest ecosystems and biodiversity research. Operates in the same Amazon basin geography and shares SEMADES' turtle/wildlife conservation focus, though as a research NGO rather than a regulator.

Broad incumbents

• IBAMA (Instituto Brasileiro do Meio Ambiente e dos Recursos Naturais Renováveis): Brazil's federal environmental enforcement agency, operating nationally across pollution control, deforestation, and wildlife protection. Broader incumbent in the same environmental compliance and enforcement category as SEMADES, with federal jurisdiction that overlaps municipal activity.
• ICMBio (Instituto Chico Mendes de Conservação da Biodiversidade): Federal biodiversity and protected areas agency that operates as SEMADES' primary enforcement partner on garimpo and pirarucu cases. A broader incumbent whose mandate overlaps directly with SEMADES' conservation and enforcement activities.

Regional players

• SEMAS-PA (Secretaria de Estado de Meio Ambiente e Sustentabilidade do Pará): State-level environmental secretariat for Pará, another major Amazonian state facing identical deforestation, illegal mining, and biodiversity challenges. Comparable structure and mandate to SEMA-AM, providing a regional benchmark for SEMADES.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat2 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/semades

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Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Funding overview

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