FOR201H1 Study Guide - Final Guide: Environmental History, Usufruct, Hedge

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Lecture 5: conservation and development alliances with the kayapo. Around 80% of tropical forests in the amazon basin are in brazil, and 100-million ha is indigenous territory. The designation of this territory was done by: environmental defense fund, conservation international, the international conservation fund of canada, the. This is a long-term conservation project in brazil. The kayapo people are important to the conservation of these forests because they have control of over 11million ha of land mainly forests. It is located in southeastern amazon along the arc of fire frontier indigenous lands are forested whereas land outside is logged and cleared for ranching. Tropical forests are disappearing because of logging for timber, road building, colonization, and agriculture. In africa it s for subsistence, asia it s for palm oil, and latin america is because of ranching. The indigenous culturally do not deforest their land. The indigenous in this area do way more conservation then any ngo or conservation scientist.

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