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    Eye on the Amazon

    This Is What True Climate Leadership Looks Like

    Indigenous women and the grassroots Amazonian movement carried COP30 on their shoulders

    “We’re very happy that our lands advanced in the demarcation process, but there are so many lands that still need to be recognized and demarcated in Brazil.”

    December 4, 2025
    9,125 views
    7 min read

    Ecuadorians Vote Down Noboa’s Extractive Agenda

    The results of a recent national referendum delivered a major victory for the Amazon

    This victory belongs to the people of Ecuador. It is a reminder that democratic power still matters, even in times of crisis. But it is also a beginning, not an end.

    November 20, 2025
    7,885 views
    3 min read

    Recent Reports

    The Money Trail

    Behind fossil fuel expansion in Latin American and the Caribbean

    This report shines a spotlight on companies that are exploring and developing new fossil fuel reserves or building new fossil infrastructure, and it reveals which banks and investors are backing the expansion of this dirty and dangerous industry across Latin America and the Caribbean.

    September 2025
    1,803 views
    2 min read

    Drilling Toward Disaster

    Amazon Crude and Ecuador’s Oil Gamble

    The Amazon is rapidly becoming a new frontier for oil production. This coincides with the Amazon biome reaching an existential tipping point. Amazon crude from Ecuador is a major contributor to this dangerous cycle.

    June 2025
    6,587 views
    2 min read

    In the Shadows of the State

    Illicit Economies and Armed Control in the Triple Border Region of Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru

    This report calls for a regional strategy centered on environmental protection, state-building, and community governance.

    August 2025
    7,629 views
    1 min read

    News on Indigenous Rights, the Amazon, and Our Global Climate Crisis

    The Fight Against Climate Change Is Also a Fight Against Organized Crime

    Belém COP cannot succeed without taking decisive action

    Open Global Rights | Belém can be remembered as a turning point – when the world stopped treating the Amazon as a victim and began dismantling the criminal economies driving its collapse.

    November 6, 2025
    4,820 views
    4 min read

    Standing With the Kakataibo

    Resilience amid Peru’s crisis of corruption and organized crime

    The Kakataibo have made it clear to us: they will not give up. Their fight to reclaim and defend their ancestral lands has lasted more than two decades, and this is simply another chapter in a long struggle for survival and justice.

    October 22, 2025
    6,981 views
    4 min read

    Defending the Amazon Against Illegal Economies

    The Wampís Nation’s fight to defend their territory against an invasion of illegal mining

    The Wampís’ fight is not just local, it’s global. Defending the Amazon means defending the planet.

    October 22, 2025
    5,041 views
    1 min read

    The Rainforest Spoke. Amazonian Legislators Listened.

    The Parliamentarians for a Fossil-Free Amazon call for a moratorium on new oil and mining projects – starting with Indigenous territories.

    In the face of inaction and paralysis of countries in making significant progress to address the climate crisis and its principal driver – fossil fuels – a worldwide coalition of legislative leaders has taken matters into their own hands, demonstrating what true climate leadership can look like.

    October 9, 2025
    3,434 views
    3 min read

    Ecuador and Oil: A Challenge for Democracy and the Amazon

    Since the adoption of the Paris Agreement, more than 930,000 square kilometers have been opened for oil and gas exploration in Latin America and the Caribbean, an area larger than Venezuela

    El País | What is at stake is not only Ecuador’s Amazon. A just energy transition must begin from the principle of shared but differentiated responsibility.

    October 7, 2025
    5,323 views
    3 min read

    Defending Mocoa in Southern Colombia

    Art, culture, and children’s resistance against Giant Copper mining threat

    “Mocoa is the most conserved territory, where the mountains hold the winds of the ancestors, which descend to embrace the Amazon.”

    October 1, 2025
    3,191 views
    3 min read

    Ferrogrão Is a Shortcut to Collapse

    The railway is being sold as a logistical solution, but in practice it means more deforestation, land invasions, and poison

    O Globo | Ferrogrão is the backbone of a corridor that transforms the Amazon into a commodity export route and condemns Brazil to a subservient role.

    September 30, 2025
    7,358 views
    3 min read

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