Indigenous Peoples and Demarcated Territories of the Amazon

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1. Story
2. Several hundred distinct indigenous peoples live in the Amazon basin, speaking languages from many unrelated families, and their recognised territories cover on the order of a quarter of it - a larger share than the formal conservation protected areas. In Brazil the legal basis is Article 231 of the 1988 Constitution, which recognises indigenous rights to traditionally occupied lands as original and pre-existing rather than granted, with the state's role limited to demarcating them. The empirical result is consistent and repeatedly measured: clearance rates inside recognised indigenous lands run far below rates in comparable land immediately outside them, and analyses of carbon stocks find indigenous territories and protected areas holding roughly half the region's forest carbon while remaining close to carbon-neutral, as the land around them loses carbon. This is not incidental to the forest's composition either. The Amazon that Europeans found in the sixteenth century was already a worked landscape, and its present species mix still carries the signature of that work.
3. Knowledge
4. Brazil Nut Tree (Bertholletia excelsa)
5. Indigenous Peoples and Demarcated Territories of the Amazon
6. Xingu Indigenous Territory
7. Amazon Deforestation
8. Connections
9. Brazil Nut Tree (Bertholletia excelsa)
10. Amazon Deforestation
11. Xingu Indigenous Territory
12. Terra Preta (Amazonian Dark Earths)
13. Dark earths accumulate under long-term settlement
14. Orellana descends the river to the Atlantic
15. Brazil's constitution recognises indigenous land rights as original
16. Amazon Basin
17. Agouti (Dasyprocta spp.)
18. Agouti (Dasyprocta spp.)
19. Indigenous Peoples and Demarcated Territories of the Amazon
20. Jaguar (Panthera onca)
21. Indigenous Peoples and Demarcated Territories of the Amazon
22. BR-163 (Cuiaba-Santarem Highway)
23. Moisture Recycling
24. The Amazon Dieback Threshold
25. Forest Degradation
26. The Southeastern Amazon as a Carbon Source
27. Satellite Deforestation Monitoring
28. PPCDAm (Action Plan for the Prevention and Control of Deforestation in the Legal Amazon)
29. Amazon Soy Moratorium
30. Construction of the Trans-Amazonian Highway begins
31. BR-163 opens between Cuiaba and Santarem
32. INPE begins the annual PRODES deforestation series
33. Clearance reaches the highest annual figure in the record
34. The Amazon Soy Moratorium is signed
35. Annual clearance reaches its lowest recorded level
36. Clearance reaches its highest level since the mid-2000s
37. Clearance falls to its lowest level in roughly a decade
38. The UN climate conference convenes at the mouth of the Amazon
39. Indigenous Peoples and Demarcated Territories of the Amazon
40. Arc of Deforestation (Arco do Desmatamento)
41. Evidence
42. Supports the finding that Amazonian indigenous territories and protected areas hold a large share of regional forest carbon and remained close to carbon-neutral over the study period while lands outside them lost carbon. V55 verification basis: not retrieved in this session; the shares and flux values are deliberately not quoted.
43. Supports the claim that recognised indigenous territories cover a large share of the Amazon basin, comparable to or greater than the area under formal conservation protection. V55 verification basis: not retrieved in this session; no percentage is quoted from this source, and a curator should take the current figure directly from RAISG rather than from this record.
44. Supports the finding that domesticated tree species are disproportionately abundant in the modern Amazon and that their abundance and richness increase near archaeological sites, indicating a persistent pre-Columbian human signature in present forest composition. V55 verification basis: not retrieved in this session; the magnitude of the enrichment is deliberately not quoted.