The forests in the indigenous lands in Brazil in peril

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

Land Use Policy, 2020, vol. 90, issue C

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.

Keywords: Amazon; Biodiversity; Climate change; Brazilian constitution; Soybean (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2019.104258

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