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Wouldnt repurchasing lands or plots not claimed by the native people also be a solution?

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Wouldnt repurchasing lands or plots not claimed by the native people also be a solution?

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It is worth recalling that the entire Amazon region belonged to the natives. That said, it is true that vast areas or forests are today on sale without anyone claiming them, quite simply because they have disappeared or migrated. Purchasing these lands requires a strong local infrastructure to subsequently manage them and to enforce their territorial integrity. Their acquisition and management costs work out to be more expensive than involving the indigenous people in these perations (250 /hectare, according to CoolEarth, 2008). • Will these lands be protected from oil production? It is true that the subsoil belongs to the State. But to produce oil, you have to pump the oil to the surface. This requires the State and the oil companies to negotiate the production rights with the native organizations. The latter are now sufficiently well-organized and supported to defend themselves efficiently: some of them do allow production on their lands, on the sole condition of strictly respecting

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