Brazil’s Top Court Orders 90‑Day Plan to Remove Invaders From Cachoeira Seca Indigenous Land

Overview

• The Supreme Federal Court, led by Justice Edson Fachin, ordered on Sunday, May 31, 2026, that the federal government present a detailed desintrusão plan within 90 days to remove non‑indigenous occupants from Terra Indígena Cachoeira Seca.
• The plan must set a step‑by‑step timetable, name responsible agencies, estimate budgets for indemnifying occupants classified as in good faith by Funai, and specify security, policing and legal actions to evict those not entitled to stay.
• Fachin also required the creation of a governance committee to protect isolated and recent‑contact indigenous peoples and gave the government 15 days to submit a timetable for establishing Parque Nacional Tanaru.
• The court cited severe environmental damage—about 74,000 hectares of accumulated deforestation through July 2025, roughly 586 km of illegal access roads opened since 2018, cattle introduction and illegal mining—and a technical note reporting a mental‑health emergency among the Arara.
• After the plan is homologated by the STF the Union must send semiannual implementation reports to the court, and authorities including Funai, Incra, the Federal Police, Força Nacional and the MPF will need to coordinate complex operational, budgetary and security work on the ground.