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    Eye on the Amazon

    Three Years After Ecuador’s Historic Yasuní Vote, the Oil Still Flows

    Three years after Ecuadorians voted to keep Yasuní’s oil in the ground, extraction continues, threatening Indigenous Peoples living in isolation and a historic climate precedent

    The Waorani people took to the streets of Puyo to mark the three-year anniversary of Ecuador's historic Yasuní referendum and protest the government’s failure to carry out the will of voters.

    September 22, 2026
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    Capirona Sings for Its Rivers

    “We cannot afford to abandon our struggle. For now, we need clean water, but we will keep fighting to heal the rivers and secure alternative livelihoods for our community.”

    September 8, 2026
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    Rio Mural Honors Women Defending the Amazon’s Rivers

    Yesterday, I participated in the inauguration of a monumental new mural in Rio de Janeiro celebrating Indigenous, Quilombola, and riverine women who defend the Amazon’s rivers and territories.

    September 1, 2026
    12,942 views
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    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
    10,086 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
    10,734 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
    3,319 views
    2 min read

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

    The Belo Sun Case Reaches Brazil’s Supreme Court

    Federal prosecutors are asking the court to “urgently” suspend Belo Sun’s installation license. The request was signed by Brazil’s deputy prosecutor general and is now before Supreme Court Chief Justice Edson Fachin.

    Sumaúma | "After so many years of violations and irregularities that have marked the project’s environmental licensing process, we hope the Supreme Court will examine the case with the attention and responsibility it requires.”

    September 14, 2026
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    The Amazon Is Not a Resource Reserve: It Is a Territory of Life

    This week, Indigenous peoples and communities from the nine countries of the Amazon Basin are gathering at the Pan-Amazonian Social Forum in Puyo, Ecuador. The gathering is considering how to accelerate the transition away from fossil fuels.

    El País | We know another kind of wealth. It is in our rivers, in the animals and plants, in the knowledge passed down by our elders, and in the relationships that allow the world as we know it to continue to exist.

    August 19, 2026
    6,837 views
    4 min read

    From Sarayaku to Paris by Canoe

    Paty Gualinga remembers an unforgettable journey of laughter, adventure, and solidarity

    In this video, Paty Gualinga looks back on one unforgettable chapter in Sarayaku and Amazon Watch's shared history.

    August 13, 2026
    10,509 views
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    The False Security of the Amazonian Triple Border and the Challenge for the New Governments

    Right-wing governments aligned with trends of militarization and heavy-handed policies are taking office in Colombia, Ecuador and Peru. But war rhetoric and spectacle actions contribute little and put local populations' rights at risk.

    El País | We are facing a scenario where extractive activities and illicit economies converge with highly adaptive armed actors and with states that are weak, absent, corrupt, or violent against their own populations. The recipe is dangerous.

    August 6, 2026
    8,123 views
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    The Chapra Nation Is Powering Its Own Future

    How solar energy, internet access, and community leadership are strengthening territorial defense in the Peruvian Amazon

    This month, Amazon Watch and the Chapra Nation fulfilled a dream years in the making: we brought solar energy, freezers, and internet connectivity to 12 communities across Chapra territory.

    July 31, 2026
    9,427 views
    6 min read

    They Delivered Justice, Not a Favor

    The Remanso Massacre was not an isolated act. It is part of a wider pattern of violence sweeping across the Colombian Amazon and the tri-border zone where Colombia, Peru, and Ecuador converge.

    July 10, 2026
    11,014 views
    4 min read

    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
    12,370 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
    11,338 views
    5 min read

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