Territorial Crossroads and Ongoing Management Processes Between Natural Protected Areas and Indigenous Lands in Acre, Brazil

Flávia Dinah Rodrigues de Souza, Roberto de Alcântara Tavares, Juliana Fortes e Silva, and Daniel Belik

1. Coastal Systems Development and Environment Program PRODEMA, Federal University of Maranhao, Brazil

2. Department of Oceanography, Federal University of Maranhao, Brazil

Abstract: The System of Natural Protected Areas of the State of Acre (SEANP) contemplates Protected Areas (classified into 12 categories) and Indigenous Lands as integrated components. Specially, if we realize that along the Brazilian-Peruvian border there are over 2000 ha of overlapped or combined areas of this sort. Having that in mind, it is mandatory that articulation occur between the different official institutions working on those protected areas. This article examines the 2018 and 2019 debates happening between public institutions and civil society about the territorial interactions within Indigenous Lands and Protected Areas in Acre. The SEANP encounters proposed activities have qualified and given visibility to those joined arrangement whereas it recognized dissensions, successful strategies, among other collective actions, as fundamental tools to be adapted and replicated in other contexts.

Key words: natural protected areas, indigenous lands, territorial crossroads