Protected Areas (Brazil)
This layer delineates Brazil's officially designated protected areas and indigenous territories.
Category: Transition risks · Sensitive areas · Protected areas Coverage: Country (Brazil) Format: Boundary polygons (national / sub-national) Used in risk analysis: No (contextual layer; not used in materiality scoring)
What it shows
This layer delineates Brazil's officially designated protected areas and indigenous territories. Operating in or near these areas carries heightened regulatory, reputational and ecological sensitivity, so the layer helps flag sites that overlap with conservation designations or recognised indigenous lands.
How it is built
The layer combines two official Brazilian government sources. The National Registry of Conservation Units (CNUC), maintained by the Ministry of the Environment, supplies federal, state and municipal protected areas across all Brazilian conservation-unit categories — national parks, biological reserves, environmental protection areas, extractive reserves and others. To this it adds indigenous territories from FUNAI (the national indigenous affairs agency) wherever those are not already captured by the conservation-unit registry, avoiding double counting. The result is a set of boundary polygons covering the full range of national designations.
How to read it
This is a boundary layer rather than a graded scale. A site that falls inside, or close to, any protected-area or indigenous-territory polygon is flagged as intersecting a sensitive area. The category of the unit (for example a strict reserve versus an environmental protection area) indicates the nature of the designation.
Source
CNUC/MMA (National Registry of Conservation Units, Ministry of the Environment) and FUNAI (indigenous territories), Brazil.
Comparison with the WWF Risk Filter Suite
This layer corresponds to BRF S14_1 Protected/Conserved Areas. The WWF Risk Filter Suite relies on the global World Database on Protected Areas (WDPA, UNEP-WCMC via IBAT); Darwin instead assembles Brazil's own official datasets, which can extend and localise coverage — including indigenous territories — beyond what the global database holds.
Generated from darwin/layers/layer-protected-areas-brazil.toml and risk_indicator_pairs.toml (develop).