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    As COP30 Nears, the Real Action Is in the Streets

    Powerful grassroots mobilization in Brazil points the way to the future we need

    May 16, 2025
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    From Inferno to Uncertainty: Amazon Fires in 2025 and the Urgency of Indigenous Rights

    September 16, 2025
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    Yasuní: A Global Climate Victory at Risk

    January 22, 2025
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    Truth, Justice, and Reparations: Traveling into the Heart of the Colombian Amazon

    April 17, 2025
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    Munduruku Nonviolent Protest for Indigenous Land Rights Reaches Brazil’s Supreme Court

    April 29, 2025
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    Demanding an Amazon Free from Extraction at COP30

    Ferrogrão Is a Shortcut to Collapse

    The railway is being sold as a logistical solution, but in practice it means more deforestation, land invasions, and poison

    O Globo | Ferrogrão is the backbone of a corridor that transforms the Amazon into a commodity export route and condemns Brazil to a subservient role.

    September 30, 2025
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    Mining Out of the Amazon

    Defending the Amazon Against Illegal Economies

    The Wampís Nation’s fight to defend their territory against an invasion of illegal mining

    The Wampís’ fight is not just local, it’s global. Defending the Amazon means defending the planet.

    October 22, 2025
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    Standing With the Kakataibo

    Resilience amid Peru’s crisis of corruption and organized crime

    The Kakataibo have made it clear to us: they will not give up. Their fight to reclaim and defend their ancestral lands has lasted more than two decades, and this is simply another chapter in a long struggle for survival and justice.

    October 22, 2025
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    Major Victory to Halt Mining in the Heart of the Brazilian Amazon

    Brazilian judge annuls Belo Sun's land rights contract, delivering a major blow to the company's plans to build Brazil's largest open-pit gold mine

    This recent federal court decision annulling Belo Sun and INCRA’s contract is a crucial step toward justice, underscoring the resilience of the communities of the Volta Grande do Xingu.

    December 5, 2024
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    Defending Mocoa in Southern Colombia

    Art, culture, and children’s resistance against Giant Copper mining threat

    “Mocoa is the most conserved territory, where the mountains hold the winds of the ancestors, which descend to embrace the Amazon.”

    October 1, 2025
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    End Amazon Crude

    Ecuador and Oil: A Challenge for Democracy and the Amazon

    Since the adoption of the Paris Agreement, more than 930,000 square kilometers have been opened for oil and gas exploration in Latin America and the Caribbean, an area larger than Venezuela

    El País | What is at stake is not only Ecuador’s Amazon. A just energy transition must begin from the principle of shared but differentiated responsibility.

    October 7, 2025
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    California Lawmakers Seek to Curb Oil Imports from Amazon

    Associated Press | “Consuming oil from the Amazon is incompatible with climate leadership. As the world’s fourth-largest economy, California is sending a powerful market signal by examining its crude footprint and role in Amazon destruction.”

    August 27, 2025
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    Recent Reports

    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
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    Drilling Toward Disaster

    Amazon Crude and Ecuador’s Oil Gamble

    The Amazon is rapidly becoming a new frontier for oil production. This coincides with the Amazon biome reaching an existential tipping point. Amazon crude from Ecuador is a major contributor to this dangerous cycle.

    June 2025
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    In the Shadows of the State

    Illicit Economies and Armed Control in the Triple Border Region of Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru

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

    August 2025
    7,332 views
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    More News on Indigenous Rights, the Amazon, and Our Global Climate Crisis

    The Fight Against Climate Change Is Also a Fight Against Organized Crime

    Belém COP cannot succeed without taking decisive action

    Open Global Rights | Belém can be remembered as a turning point – when the world stopped treating the Amazon as a victim and began dismantling the criminal economies driving its collapse.

    November 6, 2025
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    Endangered Amazonía

    This report, a collection of 22 articles from Indigenous organizations, researchers, journalists, and international organizations, shows forest degradation and fires have not only pushed the Amazon beyond previous estimates of proximity to its tipping point, but that human activity has driven the forest beyond where mere protection of what remains...

    November 2025
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    The Rainforest Spoke. Amazonian Legislators Listened.

    The Parliamentarians for a Fossil-Free Amazon call for a moratorium on new oil and mining projects – starting with Indigenous territories.

    In the face of inaction and paralysis of countries in making significant progress to address the climate crisis and its principal driver – fossil fuels – a worldwide coalition of legislative leaders has taken matters into their own hands, demonstrating what true climate leadership can look like.

    October 9, 2025
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    When Criminals Rule the Amazon Jungle and Time Runs Out

    The crisis of public security, environmental crime, and human rights must be on the agenda of the Summit of Amazonian Countries

    El País | Without coordinated action and meaningful inclusion of local voices, the region faces escalating violence and irreversible damage to one of the world’s most critical ecosystems.

    August 19, 2025
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    You Can’t Kill a River

    Why the Volta Grande still lives – and how the peoples of the Xingu continue to oppose mining company Belo Sun

    In the Volta Grande do Xingu, the river still runs. Even with turbines and licenses strangling it, the Xingu endures because the peoples who protect it refuse to disappear.

    July 24, 2025
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    The Achuar Reject Petroperú’s Oil Expansion – Yet Again

    Amid mounting debt and political pressure, Petroperú scrambles to revive Block 64, but Indigenous nations expose sham consultations and defend their territories from fossil fuel expansion

    “These informal meetings and all publicity surrounding them have no validity as a mechanism for Indigenous peoples' participation. The truth cannot be hidden."

    July 22, 2025
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    Amazon Crime Crisis: U.N. Backs Indigenous Demands

    U.N. Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues: governments and UNODC must include Indigenous Peoples in anti-crime and environmental policies

    Amazonian Indigenous leaders delivered a clear and urgent message: organized crime and illegal economies are devastating the Amazon and threatening the survival of Indigenous Peoples.

    July 1, 2025
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    Mura People Rise Against Mining Invasion in Brazil

    A powerful new alliance emerges to confront extractivism on Indigenous lands

    “What happened at this large meeting was not just a gathering of the Mura most directly affected by the Brazil Potash project. Rather, the significance of this event lies in the fact that this struggle has become, first and foremost, the struggle of all Indigenous peoples.”

    June 10, 2025
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    Chevron’s Toxic Empire on Trial

    Gross polluter and corporate criminal slammed at 2025 AGM as global protests mount

    “Chevron came in, extracted oil, poisoned the land and water, and then walked away."

    May 29, 2025
    3,845 views
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    Drug Trafficking in Indigenous Territories of the Peruvian Amazon

    Routes, Impacts, and Failed Policies

    In Peru, drug trafficking is one of the main threats to the Amazon and Indigenous peoples. This report presents concrete proposals to reposition Indigenous peoples not only as victims, but as political actors who can help shape solutions.

    May 2025
    5,870 views
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    The Amazon vs. Big Oil: Why Petroperú’s Latest Defeat Matters Globally

    This Indigenous-led victory to keep 55 million barrels of crude in the ground in Peru's Amazon is a blueprint for resisting oil expansion worldwide

    "Petroperú’s decision to cancel the tender for Block 64 is a great relief. However, we remain vigilant, knowing that it will likely continue seeking investors to exploit this block."

    May 20, 2025
    5,395 views
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