Conservation Alliances with Indigenous Peoples of the Amazon
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| Author(s) | Schwartzmann, S. Zimmerman, B. |
| Date | June 2005 |
| Reference type | Journal Article |
| Source name | Conservation Biology |
| Journal | Vol 19 No 3 |
| Pages | pp. 721-727 |
| Publisher | Blackwell Publishing |
Summary
Ongoing alliances between indigenous peoples and conservation organizations in the Brazilian Amazon have helped achieve the official recognition of about 1 million km2 of indigenous lands. The future of Amazonian indigenous reserves is of strategic importance for the fate of biodiversity in the region. We examined the legislation governing resource use on indigenous lands and summarize the history of the Kayapo people's consolidation of their >100,000 km2 territory. Like many Amazonian indigenous peoples, the Kayapo have halted the expansion of the agricultural frontier on their lands but allow selective logging and gold mining. Prospects for long-term conservation and sustainability in these lands depend on indigenous peoples' understandings of their resource base and on available economic alternatives. Although forest conservation is not guaranteed by either tenure security or indigenous knowledge, indigenous societies' relatively egalitarian common-property resource management regimes—along with adequate incentives and long-term partnerships with conservation organizations—can achieve this result.
Themes
Indigenous and Local Community Rights
Forestry
Geographic coverage
South America
DOI
10.1111/j.1523-1739.2005.00695.x
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- Conservation International (CI) (Organisation O0112)