Amazon – land tenure
Map with land tanure distribution in the Legal Amazon - protected areas, private properties, undesignated public lands, rural settlements - based in 2018 data.
Fact sheet about the Amazon – 2019
Fact sheet about the Amazon – 2019
Those maps provide information about the Amazon, political definitions and deforestation for each kind of land tanure, based in 2019 data.
Who owns the Amazon?
Who owns the Amazon?
This map shows the Amazon according the land tenure: private and public areas (protected areas, indigenous lands, undesignated areas, and rural settlements).
Undesignated areas in the Legal Amazon
Undesignated areas in the Legal Amazon
There are 65 million hectares of undesignated areas in the Legal Amazon. Their current status increases their vulnerability to land grabbing and illegal timber extraction. It is urgent to destinate those lands to protection.