May 18, 2022

14:05

Omar Gusmão – From Cenarium Magazine*

RORAIMA – The State of Roraima overtook Pará and became the Federative Unit (UF) with more indigenous areas under pressure from deforestation and exploitation by illegal mining in the first quarter of 2022. This is what the study published this Wednesday, 18, by the Institute of Man and Environment of the Amazon (Imazon) indicates.

According to the Imazon survey, which is part of the study “Deforestation Threat and Pressure in Protected Areas”, Roraima achieved the sad feat of containing in its territory five of the ten indigenous areas under greatest pressure between January and March 2022.

The change of position in the “macabre ranking”, however, does not mean that the situation in Pará has improved. On the contrary, it indicates that, while the situation in Pará remains critical, the devastation of the Amazon biome and the attacks against traditional peoples are advancing rapidly in Roraima.

Proof of this is that Pará still holds the first and third position in the ranking of most threatened protected territories. The Indigenous Lands Cachoeira Seca do Iriri and Apyterewa are first and third, respectively, in the tragic ranking of the most pressured between January and March.

Amazonas in the ranking

In the second position of protected territories that suffered the most threats of deforestation in the first quarter of this year is the Waimiri Atroari Indigenous Land, located between the states of Roraima and Amazonas.

Other indigenous lands located in Amazonas that appear in the first quarter ranking are the Upper Rio Negro Indigenous Land, which ranked fourth, and the Middle Rio Negro Indigenous Land, in seventh position.

Other threatened lands in Roraima

Besides the second place in the grim ranking, occupied by the Waimiri Atroari Indigenous Land, Roraima still has four indigenous lands among the ten most threatened: Manoá/Pium, Moskow, Raposa Serra do Sol and São Marcos. In them, five different peoples live: Ingarikó, Macuxi, Patamona, Taurepang and Wapichana.

See the ranking of the ten most pressured indigenous lands:

Cachoeira Seca do Iriri IT (PA)
Waimiri Atroari IT (AM/RR)
Apyterewa IT (PA)
Alto Rio Negro IT (AM)
Karipuna IT (RO)
Manoá/Pium IT (RR)
Middle Rio Negro I TI (AM)
Moskow IT (RR)
Raposa Serra do Sol IT (RR)
São Marcos IT (RR)

Read the full study here:

*With information from the press office