Resumen de Designing Indigenous Lands in Amazonia: Securing indigenous rights and wildlife conservation through hunting management
Pedro de Araujo Lima Constantino, Maíra Benchimol, André Pinassi Antunes
Huni Kuin, are able to ensure their constitutional rights and the local conservation of natural resources. We showed that to ensure sustainable hunting, the Huni Kuin ILs should be large enough to encompass each village’s hunting territory of 78.5 km2 surrounded by an undisturbed area of the same size, totaling 157 km2 per village. However, their ILs are currently too small to maintain sustainable hunting if the traditional social organization of several small villages distributed along rivers is maintained, so they fail to achieve the IL goals. We discuss three hypothetical alternatives for either maintaining or reviewing current Huni Kuin ILs; however, these alternatives are unlikely to be applicable for the Huni Kuin because they either are against the current political trends or violate indigenous rights. We thus suggest that future IL delimitation studies should consider current spatial hunting patterns in order to improve the delimitation and territorial management of IL in Amazonia, by identifying the ideal shape and size of hunting territories and applying a source-sink model likely to ensure sustainable hunting activities
