Territories in Brazil’s fragmented Atlantic Forest where Indigenous peoples enjoy secure land rights have seen measurably less deforestation than similar areas in which land tenure is weak or non-existent, researchers reported Thursday.
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“Each year after tenure was formalised, there was, on average, a 0.77 percent increase in forest cover compared to untenured lands,” she added.The Atlantic Forest — Brazil’s second-largest rainforest after the Amazon, stretching along 3,000 kilometres of coastline — has been decimated by centuries of urbanisation, agriculture, logging and mining. It is home to 70 percent of the country’s population, including Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro.
Jera Poty Mirim, a Guarani leader in the Tenonde Pora Indigenous Territory, said the study confirmed what Indigenous people already knew. In the Atlantic Forest, encroachment by land grabbers, squatters and extractive industries — whether mining or logging — “remains an ongoing challenge for land defenders”, the report’s authors noted.
“Titling the lands of Indigenous people is crucial if we want to guarantee the end of deforestation and preserve the global climate in balance,” Paulo Moutinho, a senior scientist at Brazil’s Amazon Environmental Research Institute and fellow at the Woodwell Climate Research Center, told AFP, commenting on the study.
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