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IBGE: Nearly Half of Amazônia Legal Is Protected as Residents Face Severe Sanitation Gaps

Released at COP30, the study links conservation designations to persistent shortfalls in water, sewage, waste services for remote communities.

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Overview

  • Protected areas cover 46.6% of the Amazônia Legal, or about 2.3 million km² across 1,053 sites (430 conservation units, 378 indigenous lands, 245 quilombola territories), with overlaps excluded.
  • Conservation units span nearly 1.3 million km² and are home to roughly 2.27 million people, equal to 8.51% of the region’s population.
  • Areas of Environmental Protection (APAs) account for about 90.87% of residents living in conservation units, or approximately 2.06 million people.
  • Housing and sanitation precariousness affects 75.19% of residents in conservation units, and 22.23% face concurrent deficits in water, sewage and waste services.
  • Conditions are more severe in indigenous lands and quilombola territories, with at least one deficit for 98.04% and 96.90% of residents respectively, and triple deficits for 75.05% and 36.55%.