The Comexatibá territory of the Pataxó people faces ongoing threats from land grabs, real-estate development, and deforestation driven by cattle ranching and monoculture plantations. Delays in full territorial recognition have left the community vulnerable to violence, environmental harm, and the loss of vital forest, water, and coastal ecosystems.
Indigenous Pataxó demand land demarcation amid rising violence and murders
With plantation takeover, Brazil’s Indigenous Pataxó move to reclaim their land
What is happening to the Pataxó people in southern Bahia?
Socio-environmental racism, land repossession, real-estate speculation, overlapping lands
Brazil: The ‘Alert Against the Green Desert’ Network relights the flame of resistance
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