BRAZILIAN AMAZONIA 2014 presents a portion of the national heritage defined as Conservation
Areas and Indigenous Lands, the historical outcome of the continuous and ongoing fight for the
rights of indigenous peoples, for socioenvironmental justice and for the conservation of biodiversity.
Altogether the 420 Indigenous Lands and 315 federal and state Conservation Areas total 204.416.393 hectares, approximately 40% of Brazilian Legal Amazonia,1 guaranteeing the right to the cultural reproduction and ways of life of more than 173 different indigenous peoples and diverse traditional communities. Moreover both the Indigenous Lands and the Conservation Areas contribute directly to conserving biodiversity and cosystemic processes, to maintaining climatic conditions at micro and macro scales and to safeguarding water courses, many of which supply much of the Brazilian population living in the country’s major urban centres.
