Canada’s Gran Tierra: Didn’t You Know Oil Doesn’t Mix with Water?
October 28, 2013 – As Peru continues to expand oil activities in the Amazon, there's a new oil company with grand ambitions, Calgary-based Gran Tierra. Does Gran Tierra not understand the risks they are running? If so, they are in for a rude shock.
Amazonian Indigenous Women Mobilize for Life
October 25, 2013 – "We've mobilized because we're worried about oil exploration plans, the 11th Round in particular, which affects all of the Amazon. We are here for our lives, yours, the entire world's lives and for those of our future generations."
Join Us at Bioneers This Weekend!
October 17, 2013 – If you're going o the 24th Annual Bioneers Conference this weekend, be sure to catch up with Amazon Watch and our partners! We'll be speaking on the Main Stage, on panels, and we'll have a lively and informative booth outside.
Retaliation Trial Opens Against Victims of Chevron Contamination in Ecuador
October 15, 2013 – The oil company has declared that it will fight us "until hell freezes over." Obviously our economic conditions are not the same; they can buy justice, we cannot.
Smooth Criminal: Chevron Sues Rainforest Communities It Contaminated
October 15, 2013 – Chevron has taken "blame the victim" to a new extreme in its attempt to avoid the $19 billion guilty verdict handed down by an Ecuadorian court in February 2011.
Belo Sun No!
Stop further tragedy on the Xingu River
October 10, 2013 – Together with our partners in Brazil, Canada, the United States, and Europe, we are standing against Canadian mining company Belo Sun's outrageous scheme to reap massive profits from the social and environmental havoc being caused by Belo Monte.
