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Demanding an Amazon Free from Extraction at COP30

COP30 at the Crossroads: Indigenous Sovereignty or Climate Collapse

In a few days the 30th United Nations Climate Conference will take place – in the Amazon!

October 30, 2025

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Indigenous Caravan Departs from Sinop to Belém To Protest Against Ferrogrão

Folha de S.Paulo | “We will not allow the interests of large corporations, such as Cargill and Bunge, to destroy our rivers and forests."

October 1, 2025

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A River of Resistance: Witnessing the Launch of the Yaku Mama Amazon Flotilla

“We set out not to conquer, but to connect; so that the world, finally, will listen to the voices of the Amazon.”

October 16, 2025

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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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Built to Spill: Ecuador’s Pipeline Disaster and the Fight to Stop the Next One

Coastal communities in Ecuador are still reeling from a devastating oil spill on March 13, which dumped over 25,000 barrels of crude oil into rivers and protected areas in the northwestern province of Esmeraldas.

April 8, 2025

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Global Outcry and Indigenous Opposition Challenge Ecuador’s Amazon Oil Agenda

“Ecuador’s new oil auction is a direct threat to our territories. After 60 years of extraction, we’ve seen only death and destruction, not development.”

September 25, 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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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

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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

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

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

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Indigenous Amazon Groups Urge the U.N. To Curb Organized Crime, Not Militarize Territories

Associated Press | “In light of this situation, it is essential that responses to organized crime and illicit economies do not translate into new processes of militarization, criminalization, or the subordination of Indigenous governance systems.”

May 11, 2026

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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

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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

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Territorios Indígenas Bajo Amenaza

La doble presión del crimen organizado y la militarización en la Amazonía

Este informe llama a una estrategia regional centrada en la protección ambiental, el fortalecimiento institucional del Estado y la gobernanza comunitaria.

Abril 2026

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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

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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

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This Month Governments Meet to Plan a Fossil Fuel Phaseout. The Amazon Must Be Heard

Indigenous peoples have demanded for decades that governments come together and commit to getting off fossil fuels. The First Conference on Transitioning Away from Fossil Fuels, taking place later this month in Santa Marta, Colombia, is a manifestation of that demand.

April 7, 2026

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The Trump Doctrine in Latin America: Carry a Big Stick and Speak of “Total Extermination”

The Administration designated a dozen Latin American criminal cartels as terrorist organizations and launched Operation Southern Spear in September.

April 2, 2026

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Inter-American Commission on Human Rights: Peru Must Protect Kakataibo People in Isolation

The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) has issued a clear mandate, ordering the Peruvian State to protect the Kakataibo people living in voluntary isolation in the Kakataibo Indigenous Reserve.

March 31, 2026

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“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

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Bringing Down a Decree: Inside the Indigenous Victory on the Tapajós River

On January 30, I witnessed the inauguration of the Munduruku people’s Pariri Association headquarters at the Praia do Mangue Indigenous Reserve.

March 17, 2026

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Amazon Watch Turns 30

What began as a commitment to support frontline communities has grown into a global movement for rainforest protection, Indigenous rights, and climate justice.

March 12, 2026

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Justice for Indigenous Girls in the Peruvian Amazon

More than 800 cases of sexual abuse against Indigenous girls and boys remain unresolved in Condorcanqui. A growing health emergency compounds the crisis.

March 9, 2026

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When Criminal Networks Invade the Amazon, Indigenous Autonomy Resists

More than 60 Indigenous leaders from Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru gathered in the Peruvian Amazon to confront a rapidly growing threat.

March 4, 2026

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How Indigenous Women Forced Peru to Reverse a Dangerous Rollback of Justice

Awajún and Wampis women have transformed grief into organized power, compelling the state to reverse a dangerous rollback of justice services for survivors of sexual violence.

March 3, 2026

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‘The river won’: how campaigners in Brazilian Amazon stopped privatisation of waterway

The Guardian | "A victory for life.” That was the triumphal message from Indigenous campaigners in the Brazilian Amazon this week after they staved off a threat to the Tapajós River by occupying a grain terminal operated by Cargill, the biggest privately owned company in the United States.

February 27, 2026

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Pushing Back Against the “Donroe Doctrine”

When Petro met Trump on February 3rd, the stakes were high. The Trump Administration had decertified Colombia from receiving security assistance on grounds that it was not adequately addressing drug trafficking.

February 26, 2026

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From Pandora to the Amazon, Indigenous Leadership Is Protecting Life on Earth

More than a decade after Avatar brought global attention to the destruction of Indigenous lands, Amazon Watch has released a new short video.

February 20, 2026

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Indigenous Brazilians Protest Amazon River Dredging for Grain Exports

AFP | Hundreds of Indigenous people have been protesting in northern Brazil for two weeks outside the port terminal of U.S. agribusiness giant Cargill, angered over the dredging and development of Amazonian rivers for grain exports.

February 4, 2026

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Indigenous Protesters Block Cargill Facility in Brazil Over President Lula’s Decree

Associated Press | Hundreds of Indigenous people have been protesting for almost a week at a Cargill facility in Brazil against a decree allowing the federal government to consider private concessions for waterways.

January 28, 2026

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What Brazil’s New Legal Landscape Means for the Amazon and Its Peoples

Despite clear warnings from research institutions, Brazil is moving closer to licensing a mega-project based on incomplete and flawed environmental studies.

January 27, 2026

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Hope Is a Practice: 30 Years Walking With the U’wa People

In a time of repression and daily outrage, where do we find hope? For nearly 30 years, the U’wa people of Colombia have shown the world what spiritual, cultural, and political resistance looks like. Their struggle continues, and so does our commitment.

January 13, 2026

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Indigenous Leadership and Collective Power in 2025

As climate denial gained renewed political traction and governments moved to restrict civic space, Indigenous peoples and grassroots movements across the Amazon advanced bold, collective visions for the future.

December 26, 2025

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Demanding an Amazon Free from Extraction at COP30

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

Mining Out of the Amazon

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

Resilience amid Peru’s crisis of corruption and organized crime

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

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

End Amazon Crude

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

Recent Reports

Behind fossil fuel expansion in Latin American and the Caribbean

How Crime and Militarization Threaten Indigenous Peoples

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

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

As militarized responses fail, Indigenous territorial governance proves vital

La doble presión del crimen organizado y la militarización en la Amazonía

Testimonial from Women Defenders Delegation to the Amazon

Ecuador’s Indigenous Women March Against Oil

"Indigenous peoples face horrid state violence. Through you, we stand up to this violence and demand a better future. Thank you for your great work!"

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