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The forests in the indigenous lands in Brazil in peril

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  • Lima, Mendelson
  • Vale, Joine Cariele Evangelista do
  • Costa, Gerlane de Medeiros
  • Santos, Reginaldo Carvalho dos
  • Correia Filho, Washington Luiz Félix
  • Gois, Givanildo
  • Oliveira-Junior, José Francisco de
  • Teodoro, Paulo Eduardo
  • Rossi, Fernando Saragosa
  • da Silva Junior, Carlos Antonio

Abstract

The Indigenous Lands in Brazil today resemble a steam locomotive, where the government and the indigenous add wood to the boiler and the conservationists push the brakes. Arranged on the rails and along the way of this locomotive are more than 100 million hectares of the largest tropical forest on the planet. In this article we evaluate the advance of soybean cultivation and fire foci in indigenous lands using remote sensing and discuss the possible effects of a liberation of the economic exploitation in these territories intended by the Brazilian government and requested by the indigenous people themselves. We present that even with the prohibition of economic exploitation on indigenous lands, there are large concentrations of fires in those territories which undermine public policies in Brazil, both in maintaining biodiversity as the assumed climate agreements.

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  • Lima, Mendelson & Vale, Joine Cariele Evangelista do & Costa, Gerlane de Medeiros & Santos, Reginaldo Carvalho dos & Correia Filho, Washington Luiz Félix & Gois, Givanildo & Oliveira-Junior, José Fran, 2020. "The forests in the indigenous lands in Brazil in peril," Land Use Policy, Elsevier, vol. 90(C).
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:lauspo:v:90:y:2020:i:c:s0264837719310014
    DOI: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2019.104258
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    1. Porro, Roberto & Porro, Noemi Sakiara Miyasaka, 2022. "State-led social and environmental policy failure in a Brazilian forest frontier: Sustainable Development Project in Anapu, Pará," Land Use Policy, Elsevier, vol. 114(C).
    2. Vieira, Leandro T.A. & Azevedo, Thaís N. & Castro, Antonio A.J.F. & Martins, Fernando R., 2022. "Reviewing the Cerrado's limits, flora distribution patterns, and conservation status for policy decisions," Land Use Policy, Elsevier, vol. 115(C).
    3. Carlos F. A. Silva & Swanni T. Alvarado & Alex M. Santos & Maurício O. Andrade & Silas N. Melo, 2022. "Highway Network and Fire Occurrence in Amazonian Indigenous Lands," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 14(15), pages 1-17, July.
    4. Mueller, Bernardo, 2022. "Property rights and violence in indigenous land in Brazil," Land Use Policy, Elsevier, vol. 116(C).
    5. Helvécio de Oliveira Filho & José Francisco de Oliveira-Júnior & Marcos Vinícius da Silva & Alexandre Maniçoba da Rosa Ferraz Jardim & Munawar Shah & João Paulo Assis Gobo & Claudio José Cavalcante Bl, 2022. "Dynamics of Fire Foci in the Amazon Rainforest and Their Consequences on Environmental Degradation," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 14(15), pages 1-21, August.

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