Amazon: In the Amazon, What Happens to Undesignated Public Lands?

Feb 29, 2024 | Timothy J. Killeen, Mongabay
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One of the objectives of the ZEE process was to assist the nations of the Pan Amazon to allocate their public lands among different constituencies and stakeholder groups. The group with the highest public profile, at least in recent years, is the Indigenous people who have organised a highly successful campaign to assert their territorial rights and formalise their claims to their ancestral territories.