The Legal Amazon moved 6.57 million m³ of logs in 2024; Pará leads, and forest concessions provide supply predictability

Imaflora, through the Timberflow Platform, launches the 2025 Timber Yearbook, an X-ray of native timber transactions in the Legal Amazon in 2024. The study organizes official public data, harmonizes databases, and presents comparable series by state, municipality, species, products, and routes—turning information into actionable evidence for monitoring, responsible purchasing, and policy design. In 2024, the region traded 6,571,030.88 m³ of roundwood, a slight 0.32% decrease compared to 2023.

Pará remains in the lead, with 2,629,560.51 m³—40.02% of the regional total—and a strong concentration in hub municipalities. Mato Grosso fell to 1,624,147.02 m³ (–31.03% vs. 2023), while Amapá and Acre recorded proportional surges (+62.82% and +63.81%, respectively), reshaping priorities for monitoring, logistics, and responsible sourcing.

Municipal hubs in focus 

 

The timber transaction map highlights Portel (PA) with 483,776.01 m³ (+64.62%), Prainha (PA) with 309,107.15 m³ (+70.37%), Colniza (MT) with 244,300.35 m³ (–37.13%), and Mazagão (AP) with 227,221.57 m³ (+40.01%). These hubs operate as logistical and regulatory nodes, useful for guiding infrastructure planning, enforcement allocation, and buyer due diligence.

Federal Forest Concessions (FFCs) traded 379,626.55 m³ of roundwood in 2024; Pará accounted for 79% (300,442.01 m³). The stability of this block and its documentary traceability reinforce its role as a benchmark for compliance, responsible sourcing, and forest management policies. Among National Forests, the 2023→2024 variations stand out in Saracá-Taquera (–10.38%), Altamira (+3.59%), Caxiuanã (+9.29%), Crepori (–39.18%), and, in Rondônia, Jamari (+15.04%) and Jacundá (+20.98%).

Products, species, and destinations

Sawn timber is the region’s main manufactured product (2,474,970 m³), led by Mato Grosso, Pará, and Rondônia. In the mix of roundwood species traded in 2024, Manilkara huberi (maçaranduba), Dinizia excelsa (angelim), Goupia glabra (cupiúba), and Dipteryx odorata (cumaru) together account for about one quarter of the volume (1,461,796.25 m³)—a key insight for species-specific supply policies and procurement criteria.

In the domestic market, São Paulo is the largest destination for timber (352,801.78 m³). In exports, the regional aggregate totaled 203,274.55 m³, with the United States as the main destination.

The dataset consolidates and standardizes DOF (IBAMA) and Forest Guides (SEMAS/PA and SEMA/MT), prioritizing records with “received and similar” status (i.e., transactions effectively completed). It applies deduplication, harmonization, and validation processes that enable reproducibility and auditing. Transparency shifts from obligation to competitive advantage: between “I don’t know” and “I can prove it,” the market and the forest choose the latter.

According to Leonardo Sobral, Director of Forests and Restoration at Imaflora, rebuilding the “timber map”—with proportional gains in Amapá and Acre and a baseline adjustment in Mato Grosso—calls for a territorial focus and attention to transport routes in monitoring actions. “For buyers and investors, the 4D cut (state/municipality/species/product) and the documentary trail from log to sawn timber to destination become pragmatic allies for compliance,” he notes. For public policy, forest concessions provide a baseline with rules, scale, and predictability.

Felipe Jacob Pires, Imaflora’s Project and Services Coordinator, explains that the statistics refer to 2024 (calendar year) and consider transactions with “received and similar” status. “The series were built from open data from DOF (IBAMA) and SISFLORA (SEMAS/PA and SEMA/MT), with traceability trails and deduplication and harmonization criteria. Subsequent updates to public databases may result in adjustments,” he adds.