FUNAI will no longer protect one third of indigenous lands

Funai, the National Indigenous Foundation, published Circular Letter No. 18/2021, in December 29th, which excluded Indigenous Lands that have not yet been demarcated and officialized from the agency’s protection activities. Those are precisely the ones that concentrate the greatest number of conflicts, land grabbers, and deforestation.

The Circular Leter informs that these areas - which represent one third of the indigenous lands in the country - should remain under the responsibility of the police and environmental agencies. The Indigenous Missionary Council (Cimi) repudiated what happened in a statement and said that the measure is unconstitutional.