Brazil Recognizes Four Indigenous Lands and Issues Ten Demarcation Orders at COP30

Overview

• Signatures published in the federal gazette confirm recognition of four Indigenous Lands totaling 2.182 million hectares in Pará and Amazonas and declare ten additional territories across seven states.
• The Justice Ministry co-signed the declaratory orders with the Indigenous Peoples Ministry, with files now moving to Funai for physical demarcation before a final presidential decree.
• The government also published the homologation of four territories in Mato Grosso, Amazonas and Pará, including Manoki, Kaxuyana-Tunayana and Estação Parecis.
• Declared areas include Sawré Ba’pim (PA), Vista Alegre (AM), Tupinambá de Olivença and Comexatibá (BA), Sambaqui (PR), and three Guarani territories in São Paulo.
• Opposition lawmakers aligned with agribusiness condemned the package as unilateral and a source of legal insecurity, while one declared area in Bahia (Comexatibá) is reported to face active land conflict with police deployments and restricted beach access.