Floresta nacional de Saracá-Taquera: o cercamento em territórios tradicionalmente ocupados

Abstract

This study aims to analyze the conflict arising from the process of capital expansion over territories traditionally occupied within the Saracá-Taquera National Forest (Flona), located in Oriximiná, Pará, Brazil. From its inception, the decree establishing Saracá-Taquera National Forest permitted the operation of a large-scale industrial bauxite mining complex in the Trombetas River basin. More recently, with the enactment of the Public Forest Management Law (Law No. 11,284/2006), extensive areas within the forest — including those occupied by traditional riverside communities — have been granted for industrial-scale logging concessions. Both mining and logging concessions overlap with traditionally occupied territories, thereby triggering pressures and processes of territorial expropriation of these riverside communities. Based on theoretical frameworks concerning capital accumulation and enclosure, this work seeks to understand the dynamics operating within a sustainable use conservation unit, carried out by industrial natural resource exploitation companies with the complicity and support of the State.