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The Federal Attorney Generals Office signed an agreement with the Federal Public Ministry (MPF) to map all areas used by traditional families in the Chico Mendes Extractive Reserve (Resex), in Acre. The decision, approved by the Federal Court on February 26, directly benefits more than 20 thousand people and covers an area of more than 1 million hectares.
The pact, signed by the Federal Attorney Generals Office (PGF/AGU), ends a Public Civil Action filed by the MPF against the Chico Mendes Institute for Biodiversity Conservation (ICMBio). The MPF called for the georeferenced demarcation of all placements in the reserve -- areas used by traditional families for their survival -- under penalty of a daily fine of R50,000.
Resex Chico Mendes was created in 1990 and covers seven municipalities. The area is inhabited by traditional communities, such as rubber tappers and chestnut growers, but the lack of delimitation of locations generated a series of problems: for ICMBio, the difficulty of monitoring and identifying those responsible for environmental damage; for families, legal uncertainty, with members responsible for infractions they did not commit; and for the territory, vulnerability to land grabbing and irregular occupation.
The situation generated a significant liability for environmental fines, with CPFs and CNPJs negative for illegal acts. With the definition of placements, it will be possible to identify, on a technical basis, who are the traditional beneficiaries of the reserve and who occupies the area irregularly, bringing clarity to administrative processes.
Forest protection
For the Federal Attorney General, Adriana Venturini, the regularization of areas occupied by traditional families in Resex Chico Mendes will be essential to guarantee legal security for extractive families and strengthen the protection of the Amazon forest.
By organizing the use of the territory, the agreement contributes to the environmental management of the conservation unit and to combating land grabbing and irregular occupations, explains the prosecutor, who highlights the importance of cooperation between the various bodies involved in the agreement.
The work between AGU, the Federal Public Ministry, ICMBio, the Judiciary and the Federal University of Acre in defending environmental and territorial public policies was decisive in achieving a good result, states the Federal Attorney General.
The delimitation of the areas will be carried out through the project Map and Care - Collective Construction of Environmental Regularization and Forest Restoration at Resex Chico Mendes, which will be carried out by the Federal University of Acre (Ufac), in partnership with ICMBio. The schedule foresees execution in 12 months, participatory methodology, reports executed by ICMBio and presentation of a continuity project within 90 days after the end of the mapping.
Reference process: 1005544-31.2025.4.01.3000
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