O Parque Estadual do Matupiri/AM e os Mura: uma proposta de gestão

Abstract

The Matupiri State Park/AM is a Conservation Unit created in 2009 by the State of Amazonas, through the revitalization process of BR-319. Its creation aimed to protect the interfluve Purus-Madeira against the deforestation progress that will come with the road revival. However, within the Protected Areas around the Park, there is Cunhã-Sapucaia Indigenous Land inhabited by ethnic Mura. This social group claims their rights of historic and traditional use from the Conservation Unit area, even though there are not a land overlap between the Park and the Indigenous Land. Towards this scenario, the Park management was provoked to a dialogue process and the inclusion of this social group in the Conservation Unit management. As this negotiation result, it was created the Indigenous Special Use Zone in the Park’s Management Plan elaboration. Therefore, through bibliographic survey, environmental legislation, institutional documentation, international conventions and South American experiences, this study reports and analyses the management steps of the Full Protection Conservation Unit in its implementation phase, especially in its Management Plan’s elaboration, in which resulted in the acquisition of the Mura partnership to the Park’s protection. Aiming to break the paradigms between Parks and indigenous people, the study also proposes guidelines to the Conservation Unit management, and presents as its product a regulatory instrument proposal for the preparation of commitment terms to be used in the Park’s Indigenous Special Use Zone.