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    Eye on the Amazon

    El Niño Returns to an Amazon Already on the Brink

    Global El Niño and Coastal El Niño could combine to create wildfire conditions resembling the catastrophic Amazon fire seasons of 2019 and 2024

    A future where forests thrive and Indigenous rights are respected is possible. But it requires acting with far greater urgency than the world has managed so far.

    June 18, 2026
    10,907 views
    4 min read

    At Chevron’s Gates, Communities Demand Justice and a Fossil-Free Future

    Anti Chevron Day 2026 united communities fighting extraction, environmental racism, and corporate impunity across continents

    For the 13th year running, Anti-Chevron Day brought frontline leaders from across the globe to the shadow of Chevron's Richmond refinery.

    May 21, 2026
    10,963 views
    5 min read

    Hope and Action To Phase Out Fossil Fuels

    Traveling back to Bogotá from the First Conference on Transitioning Away from Fossil Fuels in Santa Marta, Colombia, I struggled to name a feeling I had never experienced after a climate conference: hope!

    May 12, 2026
    10,432 views
    5 min read

    Recent Reports

    Triple Trouble

    Geopolitics, illicit economies, and the risks of the war against narco-terrorism in the Colombia-Ecuador-Peru tri-border area

    This report documents how dramatically the region's landscape has shifted in just one year: escalating U.S. military intervention, incoming hardline governments across all three countries, and a "war on narco-terrorism."

    July 2026
    9,611 views
    1 min read

    Amazon Under Siege

    How Crime and Militarization Threaten Indigenous Peoples

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

    April 2026
    10,228 views
    1 min read

    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
    2,941 views
    2 min read

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

    A New Gold Rush Threatens the Amazon

    Whenever gold returns to the center of global geopolitics, the Amazon comes back into the crosshairs. The war between the United States and Iran has put the metal back on the radar of markets, investors, and the extractive industry.

    May 6, 2026
    9,941 views
    4 min read

    Indigenous Leaders Bring Amazon Crime Crisis to the UN

    As militarized responses fail, Indigenous territorial governance proves vital

    An urgent message is traveling from the Amazon to the United Nations. This week, Amazon Watch will accompany a delegation of Indigenous leaders from Peru and Ecuador to New York for the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNPFII).

    April 20, 2026
    10,821 views
    4 min read

    Tireless Resistance for Mother Nature

    Testimonial from Women Defenders Delegation to the Amazon

    A picture is worth a thousand tears. That was what I felt traveling to Ecuadorian Amazon with Amazon Watch on a woman donors delegation last month where we traveled from the Andes to the Amazon and deep into the remote Kichwa community of Sarayaku.

    April 16, 2026
    9,629 views
    3 min read

    Brasília Becomes Indigenous Territory

    Last week, Brazil’s capital Brasília was transformed into a center of Indigenous resistance. With more than 7,000 Indigenous people occupying the capital, the 2026 Free Land Camp (ATL) pressured Brazil’s government to uphold native land rights

    April 13, 2026
    9,168 views
    2 min read

    “The rainforest speaks with the voice of a woman.”

    Ecuador’s Indigenous Women March Against Oil

    On International Women's Day, Indigenous women from across the Ecuadorian Amazon traveled by foot, car, and canoe to Puyo with a single, unified demand: No more oil in the Amazon.

    March 31, 2026
    7,598 views
    2 min read

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