The bidding process was submitted for public consultation in November 2013, by March 2015 the concession contract had been signed, a) Semeia is a non-profit organisation that supports the development and implementation of new management models for Brazil’s protected areas. It aims to encourage dialogue among government, private sector and civil society actors and to promote the creation of PPPs to manage protected areas. In a welcomed development, the budget of ICMBio, the main source of SNUC finance, grew by 57% between 2008 and 2014, reaching BRL 783 million (Chapter 2).