On April 23 and 24, 2026, the Department of Territorial, Environmental and Climate Change Management (DGTAMC), of the Indigenous Council of Roraima (CIR), began the implementation of the Territorial and Environmental Management Plan (PGTA) of the Raposa Serra do Sol Indigenous Land. The Serras region is the first to receive the actions provided for in the plan, which has the support of partners: Nia Tero, AECID, ICS, PAWANKA and Danida (Danish Embassy).
Indigenous communities and leaders of the Macuxi and Patamona peoples of nine (09) sub-centers: Morro, Pedra Branca, São Mateus, Caraparú I, Pedra Preta, Campo Formoso, Willimom, Caracanã and Maturuca that make up the Serras region were present at the meeting for the implementation of the Territorial and Environmental Management Plan, or, community life plan, in the traditional malocão of Homologation, Maturuca Regional Center.
In addition to the regional leaders, the following were present: The Administrative and Financial Department (DAF), Charlane Almeida and Sulamita, the Department of Environmental Territorial Management and Climate Change (DGTAMC), Sineia do Vale, Ayrton, Ivone and Edite Veloso. The team that supports the progress of the activities.
The PGTA is a planning instrument that guides the sustainable use of the territory, the protection of natural resources and the strengthening of environmental management in indigenous communities. Among the lines of action are the preservation of springs and forests, the proper management of natural resources, territorial surveillance and the fight against climate change.
The coordinator of the Department of Environmental Territorial Management and Climate Change of the CIR, Sineia do Vale highlighted the importance of the historical moment that has been built since 2010, together with the indigenous leaders of the region.
"It is important to say that in 2010, we were here in the Maturuca community, in the Serras region, in the Raposa Serra do Sol indigenous land, in a meeting with 400 leaders, where the Environmental Territorial Management and Climate Change Plans began. These plans that we have built, it is very important for us to bring this history, because it was here that the leaders decided how we can put in the document, mainly, the potential of indigenous lands, regions, communities."highlighted Sineia do Vale.
Currently, the Serras region brings together 79 communities, with an estimated population of approximately 12,500 indigenous people, most of whom are Macuxi people.
For the regional coordinator of the Serra Region, Djacir Melquior of the Macuxi people, the PGTA is a life plan that has been worked on for years, especially in the part of agriculture and the preservation of traditional seeds.
"The PGTA, today, here in our midst, is the life plan of the communities. We have this plan, which is not from today, it has been for a long time. For example, we have traditional seeds that we are losing a lot, so with this plan and the implementation we will look for a way so that we can preserve, and have these seeds of ours so that they do not run out. So, we are working now to have it in the future, and with that we will market our organic seed, from here in our region, from here in Raposa Serra do Sol." Said Djacir, regional coordinator.
The implementation is considered a historical milestone and has been celebrated as a symbol of the conquest and resistance of the indigenous peoples of the region. The homologation of the territory, after a process of about 30 years of struggle, which consolidated the right to land and paved the way for structuring actions such as the PGTAs.
According to indigenous leader Orlando Pereira, from the Uiramutã Indigenous community, the struggle for land has been worked on for a long time, so that it could be homologated and demarcated in a continuous area, for better coexistence of indigenous peoples.
"So, we are a community, and I want to highlight a little bit about our coexistence through our land, the Raposa Serra do Sol area, which we consider as our mother and we worked for 30 years, even much earlier, you know, my grandparents, my great-grandfathers had already been fighting about it. But I say it like this, that I feel happy today, we always work together, the Raposa Serra do Sol area, it is not individual, it is a community land, it means that it is a land that we all worked together, and we managed, with a lot of struggle, a lot of struggle. It was there that we traveled many times, looking for how we could make it return to our hand, to our land, Raposa Serra do Sol."Pereira said
The next stages of the PGTA implementations will be carried out in the regions of Baixo Cotingo, Raposa, Surumú and Ingaricó, expanding the reach of the actions throughout the Raposa Serra do Sol Indigenous Land.