ISSN 2179-0892 Volume 27 • nº 2 (2023) Territories of nature: appropriation and extinction in Brazil Dirce Maria Antunes Suertegaray Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Graduate Program in Geography, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil. Federal University of Paraiba, Graduate Program in Geography, João Pessoal, PB, Brazil. Email: dircesuerte@gmail.com  0000-0002-3513-6376 e-213159 This article is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License. Essay How to cite this article: SUERTEGARAY, D.M.A. Territories of nature: appropriation and extinction in Brazil . Geousp, v. 27, n. 2, e-213159, may/aug. 2023. ISSN 2179-0892. Available at: https://www.revistas.usp. br/geousp/article/view/213159. doi: https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2179- 0892.geousp.2023.213159.en.