Eye on the Amazon

December 9, 2019 – "At a time when the world needs to be racing to protect the Amazon, a new oil boom in the headwaters of the mighty Amazon River in Ecuador and Peru puts this area, known as the Amazon Sacred Headwaters, in great peril."

Compelling ad in the Financial Times' special COP supplement names and shames those profiting from Amazon destruction

December 5, 2019 – Today the Association of Brazil's Indigenous Peoples published an ad in the Financial Times calling out the worst offenders that finance Amazon destruction and making clear that, “the fate of the Amazon is the fate of the world.”

November 26, 2019 – As the "lungs of the planet" burned and police attacked indigenous women and children, the world rose up to ACT for the Amazon. In immediate response to the crisis, your support provided over 65 emergency grants to fight both physical and political fires across the Amazon, including indigenous firefighters in Brazil and Bolivia, emergency relief to Ecuador, and sending a delegation of indigenous leaders to twelve European nations.

Brazil's indigenous movement builds resistance to Bolsonaro during European tour

November 22, 2019 – "We need to point our fingers in the face of our enemies," said Célia Xacriabá outside BlackRock, an institution that is backing industries responsible for this year's devastating forest fires.

Keynote address by Leila Salazar-López, Amazon Watch Executive Director, at the 2019 Bioneers Conference

November 14, 2019 – For thousands of years, indigenous peoples have protected their sacred ancestral territories. We all must stand with them to protect and restore the bio-cultural integrity of the Amazon, because our collective future depends on it.

November 7, 2019 – The decision from Ecuador's Energy Ministry comes on the heels of new momentum by the indigenous movement against extraction, attacks against indigenous earth defenders, and a global outcry over the destruction of the Amazon.