February 2013 | Amazon Watch
This assessment is an overview of legacy issues and current economic, legal, social, and environmental risk factors faced by companies interested in submitting bids for Ecuador's Ronda Sur Oriente oil lease auction.
Please contact Kevin Koenig, Amazon Watch's Ecuador Program Coordinator, to learn more about this issue.
Our honored guests this year were Kichwa leaders from the Sarayaku community in Ecuador, who made world news headlines recently by winning their case before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights.
For over 15 years, Amazon Watch has stood with the indigenous peoples of the Amazon Basin.
Each year Chevron faces opposition at its shareholder meeting, but this protest drew a larger and more diverse crowd galvanized by the oil giant's year of legal problems, oil spills and fines for reckless business practices.
Tell the Chevron board of directors to fire CEO John Watson. Since he took over, the company's bad behavior has only gotten worse.
Urge President Correa of Ecuador to stop an auction of oil development rights within nearly eight million acres of primary forest, including all of Sarayaku territory.
Send an urgent message to President Dilma demanding respect towards indigenous people and a peaceful solution to the Belo Monte Dam conflict.
