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Title: Brazilian tribe owns carbon rights to Amazon rainforest land
Visit: Brazilian tribe owns carbon rights to Amazon rainforest land
Author:
Rhett A. Butler, mongabay.com
Dated:
09 Dec 2009
A rainforest tribe fighting to save their territory from loggers owns the carbon-trading rights to their land, according to a legal opinion released today by Baker & McKenzie...The opinion...commissioned by Forest Trends...could boost the efforts of indigenous groups seeking compensation for preserving forest on their lands...Baker & McKenzie reached its conclusion based on the Brazilian Constitution and legislation, which "provides for a unique proprietary regime...which reserves to the Brazilian Indians... the exclusive use and sustainable administration of the demarcated lands as well as... the economic benefits that this sustainable use can generate."...While the legal opinion was commissioned on behalf of the Surui tribe in Rondonia, Brazil, it should apply across Brazil and could set a precedent..."This study..is...an important political and legal instrument to recognize the rights of indigenous people for the carbon in their standing forests," said Chief Almir Narayamoga Surui, leader of the Surui...
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