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Surui villages in the Indigenous Land Sete de Setembro 110 Av o i d e d d e f o re s t A t i o n (redd) A n d i n d i g e n o u s p e o p l e s: experiences, chAllenges A n d o p p o r t u n i t i e s in t h e A m A zo n c o n t e x t
has decimated much of their forest. Continued population growth (estimated at 4% per annum) and increasing need for income as younger Surui become more deeply enmeshed in dominant Western culture could represent a bleak future. With most of the surrounding forest already converted to agriculture or grazing lands, the Surui are under increasing pressure to open up their lands to similar activities – often through partnership or sharecropping arrangements that provide capital for forest conversion. Forest carbon finance that recognizes the value of standing forest could tip the balance to maintaining this and other large tracts of indigenous forests in ways that favor biodiversity and cultural survival. However, as with any new mechanism or any engagement with markets by indigenous peoples, these sorts of REDD mechanisms are not without risk. Strong tenure rights, improved governance, informed decision-making, as well as the indigenous people leading the process, are essential, if these mechanisms are to strengthen, rather than further undermine, indigenous rights and their future as peoples. The risk of other alternatives, however, is surely at least as great in the case of the Surui – loss of forests and territorial control driven by markets in products like beef, timber, and soy. Throughout the Brazilian Amazon’s arc of deforestation, indigenous peoples are facing critical and probably irreversible decisions. The Surui have chosen to work with a group of institutional partners to explore the potential for REDD finance to contribute to protecting their forests, with important lessons for other groups across the Amazon. Partnership for REDD With the support of Associação de Defesa Etnoambiental Kanindé, Aquaverde and United States Agency for International Development (USAID), the Surui initiated a reforestation project in the Sete de Setembro indigenous territory, with the objective of recuperating 7% of the deforested area that was identified by Metareilá and Kanindé. In late 2007, Almir Surui, the internationally-recognized leader of the Surui, approached Forest Trends’ Communities and Markets Program to seek support to increase the area of the reforestation. Forest Trends offered to assist the Surui in exploring the possibility of funding their reforestation efforts through carbon finance and began a feasibility assessment working with the Associação Metareilá do Povo Paiter- Surui (Metareilá Association), an organization representing the Paiter-Surui. While the initial focus was on generating credits through carbon sequestration from reforestation of the Surui territory using native-species reforestation, the feasibility assessment concluded that a REDD project was likely to prove a much more powerful tool for protecting the territory and its forests. Av o i d e d d e f o re s t A t i o n (redd) A n d i n d i g e n o u s p e o p l e s: experiences, chAllenges A n d o p p o r t u n i t i e s in t h e A m A zo n c o n t e x t 111
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Summary Introduction Raul Silva Tel
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Amazon region is currently the pref
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Indigenous Lands and the Climate Cr
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“Amazon biome,” which does not
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approximately 13 million hectares,
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consultation” in its articles 30.
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are also facilitated by the strong
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legal risk that these lands can be
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has the duty (and exclusive compete
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On the other hand, the Colombian le
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the constitution which still has no
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