Brazil Signs Orders to Advance Demarcation of 10 Indigenous Territories at COP30

Overview

• Justice Minister Ricardo Lewandowski signed declaratory ordinances on November 17 for ten territories announced at COP30 by Indigenous Peoples Minister Sônia Guajajara, including Tupinambá de Olivença (BA) and Sawré Ba’pim (PA).
• The areas span Amazonas, Bahia, Mato Grosso do Sul, Pará, Pernambuco, Paraná and São Paulo and involve peoples such as the Mura, Tupinambá, Pataxó, Guarani, Munduruku and Pankará.
• Together the territories cover roughly 18,600 hectares and encompass 982 people, according to the Ministry of Indigenous Peoples.
• The government says this step brings recognized indigenous land processes to 21 after years without demarcations since 2018, though final titles still require further Funai procedures and a presidential decree.
• Brazil also launched a global initiative targeting protection of 160 million hectares, with donors committing about US$1.8 billion through 2030, and pledged to regularize and protect 63 million hectares domestically by 2030.