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than 1% of the ministry's budget. Nogueira Neto recalled that at first he had five employees and three rooms to solve the environment problems of the whole of Brazil. He was twice asked to join the government party but refused to become involved in politics. Nogueira Neto was the architect of basic environmental legislation that received almost unanimous approval from both the government and the opposition. He was the architect of the
National Environmental Policy Law 6.938 of 31 August 1981, which established the administrative, legal and technical foundations for the federal
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architecture of bees' nests. He became a teacher in USP's
Department of Zoology. In the late 1960s he led a group of about 30 professionals at the Paulista Association of Biologists (APAB) who agitated for the creation of the Federal Biology Council (CFBio). He became the council's first president. Nogueira Neto became a specialist in animal behavior, terrestrial ecosystems and climate change. He helped create the Department of General Ecology at the USP Institute of Biosciences.
224:(ESECs), a category that was formally defined by law 6.902 of 27 April 1981. Creation of these units was defined as a specific objective in the National Environmental Policy Law. The objective was to establish a network of reserves in federal, state or municipal area that would preserve representative samples of all the ecosystems in Brazil. Seven areas in the Amazon were chosen but only one, the
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In 1974 Paulo
Nogueira Neto was appointed head of the Special Secretariat for the Environment (SEMA), and held this position in successive governments for twelve and a half years. This was the first federal environmental agency in Brazil. SEMA was a unit of the Ministry of the Interior, with less
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and of WWF-Brazil. In 2010, at the age of 88, he was emeritus professor at the
Institute of Biology, University of São Paulo, member of the Technical Chamber of Conservation Units of CONAMA (National Environment Council) and president of the Forest Foundation of the State of São Paulo. In a 2010
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In 1954 Paulo
Nogueira Neto founded the Association for the Defense of the Environment (ADEMA-SP: Associação de Defesa do Meio Ambiente), one of the first environmental organizations in Brazil. He returned to the USP to study Natural History, and in 1963 defended his doctoral thesis on the
176:(1841–1913). His parents were Paulo Nogueira Filho and Regina Coutinho Nogueira. His younger brother was José Bonifácio Coutinho Nogueira, who became Secretary of Agriculture (1959–1963) under São Paulo Governor Carvalho Pinto.
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Do Taim ao Chuí: Da Barra do Rio Grande as Terras e Águas do Arroio Chuí
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