For her, the data from MapBiomas clearly shows that indigenous peoples are the ones who truly care for nature. The indigenous leader and president of the Association of Indigenous Women of the Upper Negro River (Arman), Clarice Gama, of the Tukano people, explains to the CENARIUM MAGAZINE that the original populations have a strong relationship with the forest and that, for them, nature means something “sacred” that must be respected. Source: MapBiomas Sacredness for indigenous people According to the study, 93.7% of Brazil’s garimpo in 2020 was concentrated in the Amazon. The largest areas of mining in Indigenous Lands are in Kayapó (7602 ha) and Munduruku (1592 ha) territory, in Pará, and Yanomami (414 ha), in Amazonas and Roraima. According to the study, which mapped mining areas from 2010 to 2020, the area occupied by mining in Indigenous Lands grew 495%. The MapBiomas survey also reveals data on mining. The increase occurs in both deforestation in general and deforestation by mining. The MapBiomas study also compares Deter deforestation alerts in indigenous territories between 2016 and March 2022, where the numbers show successive jumps, with emphasis on the years of the Bolsonaro Government. “This increase in deforestation in the Amazon is due to the lack of enforcement and investment of public policies to combat and prevent illegal deforestation, which has also favored other illegal activities, such as land grabbing, mining, illegal logging and that are destroying the Amazon Forest,” pointed out researcher Julia Shimbo. The data were detected by the alert system of the National Institute for Space Research (Inpe), the Deter, which observed an acceleration multiplied by 1.7 in the average of the last three years when compared to the average from 2016 to 2018. IncreaseĪccording to MapBiomas, there has been an increase in deforestation in Indigenous Lands in the Amazon in recent years. “It is these territories that are maintaining and protecting the Amazon Rainforest in a scenario of increased deforestation in recent years and that are even being threatened by mining invasions, logging and illegal deforestation,” she explained. To CENARIUM MAGAZINE, the expert stated that it is these territories that are protecting nature in a scenario of increased forest destruction. Indigenous Lands are barriersįor Julia Shimbo, scientific coordinator of MapBiomas and researcher at the Amazon Environmental Research Institute (IPAM), the data of the study reinforce the thesis that the Indigenous Lands are like barriers or shields to the advance of deforestation. According to the study, in the last 30 years, the Indigenous Lands in the country lost only 1% of their area of native vegetation, while in private areas the loss was 20.6%. In Brazil, the Indigenous Lands occupy 13.9% of the territory and contain 109.7 million hectares of native vegetation, which corresponds to 19.5% of the native vegetation in 2020. On the other hand, in private areas, the loss of native vegetation reached 47.2 million hectares, which represented 68.4% of the total loss in the country between 19. The survey shows that, in Brazil, the overall loss of native vegetation in the last 30 years was 69 million hectares, but only 1.6% (1.1 million ha) of the deforestation falls on Indigenous Lands. Indigenous Lands are among the most protected areas in the last 30 years (Ricardo Oliveira/Cenarium) This is because it was confirmed by a study of MapBiomas, published on Tuesday, 19, the day that is celebrated the Day of Indigenous Peoples, that Indigenous Lands are among the most protected areas in the last 30 years. MANAUS – In a country where deforestation is increasingly a routine agenda, Brazil has in the native peoples the hope to save the forest from destruction.
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