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Power to the Protectors in Ecuador

Kichwa Communities Fight Fossil Fuel Expansion with Renewable Energy

July 11, 2019

This spring, we carried out the second install of our Power to the Protectors program in three Kichwa communities in the central Ecuadorian Amazon, all threatened by new oil expansion. The equipment and training provided will be essential tools to support the communities’ ability to monitor their territory, denounce rights violations, and share their vision and story with the world.

Amazon Leaders Tell GeoPark CEO James Park: Leave Our Territory

Eight Achuar and Wampis leaders from the Peruvian Amazon confronted GeoPark executives at the oil company’s annual shareholder meeting

July 1, 2019

Nelton Yankur Antich, president FENAP, which represents 45 communities located in both the Pastaza and Morona river basins, said, "We are here specifically to manifest our decision not to permit the entry of GeoPark into our territory."

Amazon Infrastructure Puts 68% of Indigenous Lands and Protected Areas at Risk: Report

June 28, 2019Mongabay

68 percent of the indigenous lands and protected natural areas in the nine nations encompassing the Amazon region are under pressure from roads, mining, dams, oil drilling, forest fires and deforestation, according to a new report.

Amazon Watch Statement on GeoPark's Withdrawal of Its Request for a Drilling Permit in the Peruvian Amazon

June 21, 2019

Late on Thursday, June 20th, the Chile-based oil company GeoPark withdrew its request for an environmental permit to begin oil drilling in a concession area known as Block 64, located in the northern Peruvian Amazon. The company's about-face came after a concerted campaign of protests from indigenous Achuar and Wampi communities opposed to oil drilling on their territories, including detailed critiques of the environmental impact study originally submitted for consideration in early July of 2018.

Chevron CEO Confronted by Human Rights and Environmental Movement and Shareholders at Annual Meeting

Five shareholder resolutions call on company to end its environmental destruction and rights abuses

May 29th, 2019

"We will continue to denounce the crime that Chevron committed until it takes responsibility for the environmental damage for which Texaco – which merged with Chevron in 2001 – is wholly responsible. We want you to understand that we – the affected indigenous and campesino communities will not falter until we have achieved our goal that your company pay for its crime and remediates our Amazon rainforest."

Amazon Deforestation Up 20% in Past Year, Environmental Watchdog Says

Analysts blame uncontrolled logging and land invasion as Brazilian president questions climate change

May 27, 2019Associated Press

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro and his environment minister have questioned the reality of climate change and spoken in favor of expanding mining and industrial farming, including in the Amazon and protected areas.

An (Even More) Inconvenient Truth

Why carbon credits for forest preservation may be worse than nothing

May 22, 2019ProPublica

The desperate hunger for carbon credit plans appears to have blinded many of their advocates to the mounting pile of evidence that they haven't – and won't – deliver the climate benefit they promise.

"Resisting to Exist"

Indigenous women unite against Brazil's far-right president

May 20, 2019Mongabay

"The policies adopted by the current government... violate all our rights and aim to destroy us," said Maria Eva Canoé. "But we are strong, we are resistant. And we are here in this... the 15th encampment, to show to the government, and to all society, that we are alive, that we are resisting to exist."

Amazon Watch Statement Regarding the Decision to Delay Licensing of Ecuadorian Oil Blocks 86 and 87

May 10th, 2019

"The decision to put a hold on auctioning blocks 86 and 87 shows that the advocacy made by Shiwiar, Sapara, and Kichwa indigenous peoples to protect their territories, that are part of the best preserved tropical forests in the country, has been successful. While we celebrate this victory, we know that the next step must not be further 'socializations.' It must instead be the permanent cancellation of these oil blocks, which communities have already roundly rejected."

Terra Livre Mobilization Propels Brazil's Indigenous Movement to the Forefront of Resistance to Bolsonaro

May 9, 2019

"The economic project of the Bolsonaro government answers to powerful financial interests, to private corporations, many of them international, including agribusiness and mining interests, among others. Therefore, it is a highly beholden government that is anti-national, predatory, ethnocidal, genocidal and ecocidal."