Maranhão State AMAZON REGION The Araribóia Indigenous Land encompasses the municipalities of Arame, Buriticupu, Amarante do Maranhão, Bom Jesus das Selvas, and Santa Luzia, located in southern Maranhão state, in the transition area between the Cerrado and the Amazon regions. Totaling 413,288.0472 hectares, the territory was demarcated in 1982 and formally registered in 1990[1]. It…
Maranhão State CERRADO AND AMAZON REGIONS The Jaqueira territory is located in the Cocais region, in the municipality of Timbiras, Maranhão state, and it embraces the communities of Santa Maria, Jaqueira, Arrendamento, Cavalo Morto, Pastorinha, Mororó, and São Tomé. Covering more than 4,300 hectares, the territory is located between the Cerrado and Amazon regions and…
Bahia State CERRADO AND CAATINGA REGIONS The communities of Gerais and Ressaca, located in the municipality of Piatã, in the region of Chapada Diamantina, state of Bahia, have been enduring intense conflict with the company Hayashi Batatas, a local agribusiness enterprise. Gerais is a small region in Piatã that lends its name to the traditional…
Amazonas State AMAZON REGION In recent years there has been a steep increase in the number and frequency of invasions of indigenous lands in the areas surrounding the municipality of Boca do Acre, in the state of Amazonas. The Valparaíso Indigenous Land, of the Apurinã people, is located on the right bank of the Purus…
Mato Grosso State AMAZON REGION Projeto de Desenvolvimento Sustentável [Sustainable Development Project] (PDS) Boa Esperança[1] is located in northern Mato Grosso state, in the municipality of Novo Mundo, within Amazonian territory. Since 2005, PDS Boa Esperança has been home to one hundred families claiming the right to land. They call for a segment of Araúna…
Maranhão State CERRADO AND AMAZON REGIONS The community puts up the fight of a lifetime we will keep on fighting, we will fight until the end. (Gilberto, member of the quilombola community of Cocalinho, Maranhão state) The Cocalinho quilombola community[1] is located in eastern Maranhão State, 500 km from its capital, São Luís, and 44…
Mato Grosso do Sul State PANTANAL REGION In 2020, the Pantanal, the largest continuous wetlands in the world, was prominently featured in the news when large forest fires swept through the region, destroying almost a third of its total area. In the state of Mato Grosso do Sul alone, 1.7 million hectares turned to ashes.…
The territory comprising the Kadiwéu Indigenous Land is located in the state of Mato Grosso do Sul (MS), in the municipality of Porto Murtinho, 60 km from the town of Bonito and 425 km from the capital Campo Grande. This Indigenous Land covers 539,000 hectares and is home to approximately 2,000 indigenous Kadiwéu people. The…
In September 2020, a huge fire raged for days in an area known as Mata do Mamão, located in the interior of Bananal Island, in the state of Tocantins. With an area of about 19,000 km², Bananal Island is considered the largest inland river island in the world. It is located between two large rivers…
Located in the Pantanal wetlands region of Mato Grosso, at the confluence of the Cuiabá and São Lourenço river basins, the Baía dos Guató Indigenous Land covers 19,000 hectares, most of it in the municipality of Barão do Melgaço, and a smaller part in the neighboring municipality of Poconé. It is home to 202 Guató…
