Human Rights Court In Unprecedented Visit to Sarayaku

April 21, 2012

Top judges of the Inter-American Human Rights Court visited the Kichwa indigenous community of Sarayaku to investigate their long-running case against the Ecuadorian government over rights abuses.View photos »

Achuar Leaders Take Their Cause to Canada

April 2012

Four Achuar leaders traveled from deep in the Amazon rainforest to Canada to confront Talisman Energy for drilling for oil in their ancestral territory.View photos »

Ecuador's Indigenous Peoples Reach Quito After 600-km March for Water, Life, and Dignity

March 22, 2012

Thousands of indigenous peoples led by CONAIE converged on Quito today, culminating a 15-day march demanding a new water law, land reform, and an end to open pit mining and new oil concessions.View photos »

Occupation of the Belo Monte Dam Construction Site

"Belo Monte will only succeed if we do nothing about it. We will not be silent. We will shout out loud and we will do it now,"

October 27, 2011

The site of the Belo Monte Dam was peacefully occupied today by hundreds of indigenous leaders, fishermen and riverine people.View photos »

Photos from Our 2011 Annual Luncheon

September 27, 2011

This year's luncheon was a celebration of fifteen years of achievements for the people and rainforests of the Amazon.View photos »

International Day of Action to Defend the Amazon

August 22, 2011

People in 22 cities spanning 16 countries held solidarity demonstrations to urge Brazil to cancel the Belo Monte Dam and to defend the forest code.View photos »

Sarayaku Delegation in Costa Rica

July 5, 2011

Long-time Amazon Watch counterparts from Sarayaku were in Costa Rica over the week of July 4th, bringing their own government before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights.View photos »

Last Stand for the Xingu

May 2011

Called by the legendary elder Kayapó Chief Raoni Metyktire, the assembly in Piaraçu aimed to discuss the impending human rights and environmental disaster that is the Belo Monte Dam on the Lower Xingu.View photos »

Ecuadorian Plaintiffs' Delegation Confronts Chevron at their Shareholder Meeting

May 2011

Amazon Watch and RAN are supporting a delegation of courageous indigenous and campesino leaders as they journey from the Amazon all the way to the U.S.View photos »

James Cameron and Arnold Schwarzenegger Visit the Xingu

March 25, 2011

The two met with members of the Kayopo and other Amazonian communities before speaking events at the World Forum on Sustainability.View photos »