The research aims to analyze the environmental conflicts arising from the expansion of oil palm
cultivation and the demarcation/titling of quilombola territories in the Pará Amazon. Despite
advances in public policy on the environment and territorial planning, implemented based on
guaranteeing the constitutional right to quilombo remnants, with the State of Pará preceding all
others in recognizing the first quilombo in Brazil, in 1995, the study observed the decrease in
the issuance of titles after the approval of the ecological-economic zoning for oil palm, starting
in 2010. The theoretical framework of the research was outlined based on the literature on
territorial management, quilombos territory and territoriality, territorial planning and conflicts
environmental. Methodologically, the work followed a case study, as a strategy to understand
questions of “how” and “why” the contemporary social phenomenon under study develops. The
lengthy titling process is part of the context of the specific case analyzed, with the exposure of
the problems faced by the quilombos community, located on the banks of the Acará River, on
the border of the municipalities of Acará and Thailand, in the search for recognition and titling
of the area in question. Dispute with palm oil company, which exemplifies the perennial
conflicts in the Amazon between environmental public policies and economic development.
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