Poliana Ampessan Today

Poliana Ampessan is a key figure in a major Brazilian legal and environmental case. The "deep feature" regarding her case is that it represents a landmark, and highly controversial, attempt to use a private legal agreement (a "condomínio de fato" or de facto condominium) to grant individual ownership of public land in the Amazon rainforest for agribusiness, challenging the constitutional principle that land in the Amazon biome must retain native vegetation.