{"id":1976,"date":"2020-10-13T07:27:41","date_gmt":"2020-10-12T21:27:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/primaryforestsandclimate.org\/?post_type=publications&p=1976"},"modified":"2022-11-25T11:10:38","modified_gmt":"2022-11-25T01:10:38","slug":"large-scale-forest-conservation-with-an-indigenous-people-in-the-amazon","status":"publish","type":"publications","link":"https:\/\/primaryforestsandclimate.org\/publications\/large-scale-forest-conservation-with-an-indigenous-people-in-the-amazon\/","title":{"rendered":"Large-scale forest conservation with an Indigenous People in the Amazon"},"content":{"rendered":"
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For over 40 years the Kayap\u00f3 Indigenous People have battled to protect their constitutionally enshrined rights to their forest territory as\u00a0frontier settlements and resource extraction operations threatened their borders. The Kayap\u00f3 reside in highly threatened primary forests in south eastern Amazon\u00a0of Brazil - a key frontline in fight to restrain biodiversity loss and climate change.<\/p>\n

In this study we explored the conditions that both enable and threaten the Kayap\u00f3\u2019s continued success in thwarting deforestation and we\u00a0identified key strategies for continued protection and success.<\/p>\n

We found that 21st century alliances forged between the Kayap\u00f3 and conservation non-government organisations (NGOs) have\u00a0enabled the protection of over 9 million hectares of their contiguous ratified territories.<\/p>\n

Satellite analysis of Kayap\u00f3 territory, between\u00a02001 and 2019, revealed a significant correlation between the location of deforestation hotspots and the presence\/absence of\u00a0NGO investment with Kayapo communities.<\/p>\n

Key to the success of the alliances has been the development of scalable resource management and\u00a0income generation activities with Kayap\u00f3 communities, and a strengthening of Kayap\u00f3 territorial surveillance. These guard-posts give the Kayap\u00f3 control over access, blocking illegal incursions, and is essential, in the absence of effective, or disinterested government enforcement, of Indigenous land rights.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>

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Philanthropic investments into the Kayap\u00f3 over the past two decades has made the difference between protection and\u00a0rampant invasion and degradation of Kayapo territories. And conservation NGOs have \u00a0enabled Kayap\u00f3\u00a0communities to set up their own Indigenous NGOs that are critical to build capacity for managing territories sustainably.<\/p>\n

This book chapter is summarised in a policy brief<\/a> (PDF) that is free to download.<\/p>\n

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\nSatellite imagery showing the overlap between successful forest conservation from deforestation and Kayap\u00f3 sovereign land.
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Article authors<\/h2>
\"Barbara<\/a><\/div>

Barbara Zimmerman<\/a><\/h3>
Barbara is the Director Kayapo Project on behalf of the International Conservation Fund of Canada playing a\u00a0key role in support of Indigenous Peoples in conservation of very large areas of forest in Brazilian Amazon.<\/div><\/div><\/article><\/div>
\"Dominick<\/a><\/div>

Dominick DellaSalla<\/a><\/h3>
Dominick is Chief Scientist at Wild Heritage, and former President of the Society for Conservation Biology, North America Section and internationally renowned author of over 200 science papers on forest and fire ecology, conservation biology, endangered species management, and landscape ecology. . <\/div><\/div><\/article><\/div>
\"Sonia<\/a><\/div>

Sonia Hugh<\/a><\/h3>
Sonia is a GIS modelling expert at multiple scales, specialising in visualisation of geographic data and spatial and temporal ecological modelling.\r\n\r\n<\/div><\/div><\/article><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Additional authors<\/h3>\n

Schwartzman, S., Jerozolimski, A., Esllei, J., and Santini, E.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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Reference<\/h3>\n

Zimmerman, B., Schwartzman, S., Jerozolimski, A., Esllei, J., Santini, E., Hugh, S., 2020. Large Scale Forest Conservation With an Indigenous People in the Highly Threatened Southeastern Amazon of Brazil: The Kayapo. In: Goldstein, M.I., DellaSala, D.A. (Eds.), Encyclopedia of the World's Biomes<\/em>, vol. 3. Elsevier, pp. 27\u201334.\u00a0ISBN: 9780128160961<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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Sonia provide geographic information system and analytical support (statistical analysis, programming, modelling, geoprocessing). She has expertise in :<\/p>\n