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Amazon Watch campaigns have led to real change. Here are
some recent examples:
- Increasing capacity of our partner organizations–especially
in Ecuador, Peru and Colombia–to assert their collective
and territorial rights and advance an alternate vision for the
development and conservation of their territories
- Contributing to policy reforms with global implications at
international financial institutions such as the Inter-
American Development Bank, the U.S. Export-Import Bank,
and the Overseas Private Investment Corporation
- Exposing oil industry abuses and contributing to the
adoption of improved human rights and environmental
policies in the case of Occidental Petroleum and Burlington
Resources
- Supporting the landmark class action lawsuit against
Chevron Corporation (formerly Texaco) for its deliberate
dumping of 18 billion gallons of toxic wastewater in a
region of the Ecuadorian Amazon rainforest inhabited by
more than 30,000 people
- Thwarting ConocoPhillips and Burlington Resources'
attempts to drill for oil in Kichwa, Achuar, and Shuar
territories in Southern Ecuador and Northern Peru
- Successfully forcing Occidental Petroleum to withdraw
from drilling on sacred U'wa land in Colombia and Achuar
territory in Peru
- Supporting the Achuar in their historic resistance effort in
Peru which led to a landmark agreement to end dumping
of one million barrels of toxic waste by Pluspetrol
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