Editing Indigenous peoples in Brazil (section)

==== Dynamics favouring recognition ====
Many of the rights and claims of Indigenous tribes align with the environmental and territorial rights movement. Although Indigenous people have secured 21% of the Brazilian Amazon as Indigenous land, many issues still threaten the sustainability of [[Indigenous territory (Brazil)|these territories]] today.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Le Tourneau |first1=François-Michel |title=The sustainability challenges of Indigenous territories in Brazil's Amazonia |journal=Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability |date=1 June 2015 |volume=14 |pages=213–220 |doi=10.1016/j.cosust.2015.07.017 |bibcode=2015COES...14..213L |s2cid=55113669 |url=https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-01241071/file/The%20Sustainability%20Challenges%20of%20Indigenous%20People%20in%20Brazil-V3.pdf }}</ref><ref name="Oliveira Santos et al 2002"/> Climate change is one reason Indigenous tribes emphasize the importance of retaining their territory.

Some Indigenous peoples and conservation organizations in the Brazilian Amazon have formed alliances, such as the partnership between the A'ukre Kayapo village and the Instituto Socioambiental (ISA) environmental organization. They focus on environmental, educational, and developmental rights.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Schwartzman |first1=Stephan |last2=Zimmerman |first2=Barbara |title=Conservation Alliances with Indigenous Peoples of the Amazon |journal=Conservation Biology |year=2005 |volume=19 |issue=3 |pages=721–727 |doi=10.1111/j.1523-1739.2005.00695.x |bibcode=2005ConBi..19..721S |s2cid=54681069 }}</ref> For example, [[Amazon Watch]] collaborates with various Indigenous organizations in Brazil to fight for both territorial and environmental rights.<ref>{{Cite book |title=Moving Environments: Affect, Emotion, Ecology, and Film|last=Weik von Mossner|first=Alexa}}{{page needed |date=April 2021}}</ref> Activists emphasize traditional conservation efforts and expanding territorial rights for Indigenous people, given that "access to natural resources by Indigenous and peasant communities in Brazil has been considerably less and much more insecure."<ref>{{Cite book|title=Compensation for Environmental Services and Rural Communities}}</ref> 

Territorial rights for the Indigenous populations of Brazil are largely intertwined with socio-economic issues. There have been violent conflicts over land rights between the government and the Indigenous population,<ref name="Paixao 587–597">{{cite journal |title=Modeling Indigenous Tribes' Land Rights with ISO 19152 LADM: A case from Brazil |journal=Land Use Policy |date=1 December 2015 |volume=49 |pages=587–597 |doi=10.1016/j.landusepol.2014.12.001 |last1=Paixao |first1=Silvane |last2=Hespanha |first2=João P. |last3=Ghawana |first3=Tarun |last4=Carneiro |first4=Andrea F.T. |last5=Zevenbergen |first5=Jaap |last6=Frederico |first6=Lilian N. |bibcode=2015LUPol..49..587P |url=https://research.utwente.nl/en/publications/b570b31e-e69e-4c17-bf7e-8a1718d45e80 }}</ref> with political rights doing little to stop them. Movements like the Landless Workers' Movement (MST) work to prevent land from being concentrated in the hands of the elite in Brazil.<ref>{{cite book |doi=10.1017/CBO9780511494093.009 |chapter=The Movement of the Landless (MST), juridical field, and legal change in Brazil |title=Law and Globalization from Below |year=2005 |last1=Houtzager |first1=Peter P. |pages=218–240 |isbn=978-0-521-84540-3 }}</ref>