Since then deforestation in the municipality has pretty much stopped
and Paragominas has become a model town.
It has a Green Lake, a Green Stadium and a Green Park in the centre of town.
A museum built from illegally felled,
confiscated wood shows, with admirable neutrality,
how Paragominas performed its U-turn on deforestation.
Since the 1960s two-fifths of the municipality has been cleared of forest.
The plan is for about 15% of the cleared area to go back to forest,
and half of the rest to be left to cattle-ranching and half to arable farming.