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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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    Amazon Watch is building on more than three decades of radical and effective solidarity with Indigenous peoples across the Amazon Basin.

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    A Historic Alliance for the Amazon

    “This deal has no consent, no legitimacy, and will face legal and social resistance every step of the way.”

    This united front builds on a track record of resistance: in more than 25 years, no new oil well has been drilled in Ecuador’s southeastern Amazon.

    August 19, 2025
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    Peru and Ecuador’s Crude Gamble Faces Indigenous Wall of Resistance

    Indigenous nations reject Boluarte’s announcement on binational oil pipeline between Petroperú and Petroecuador

    “Without our consent, this project has no legitimacy. Investors must be warned: any deal built on rights violations is built on quicksand.”

    July 31, 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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    The Risks of Investing in Petroperú

    This risk assessment describes the political, social, financial, environmental, and legal risks associated with investing in Petroperú. It also compiles the perspective of some communities that could be affected by the threat of oil operations by Petroperú, in particular, the Achuar People of the Pastaza River and the Autonomous Territorial...

    September 2022
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    Vanguard Funds Indigenous Rights Violations in Peru’s Amazon

    Asset manager Vanguard must stop investing in Indigenous rights violations and environmental destruction

    The Achuar and Wampis have good reason to oppose further oil extraction: The Northern Peruvian Oil Pipeline, which runs through their territories, has repeatedly ruptured, causing countless spills and constant threats to the environment and safety of their communities.

    September 9, 2022
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    Sarayaku’s Kawsak Sacha Is What the World Needs Now!

    The Kawsak Sacha proposal aims to sustainably preserve and conserve territorial spaces, the material and spiritual relationship established there by native peoples with the living forest and the beings that inhabit it.

    Fall 2022
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    Petroperú’s Ongoing Threat to the Amazon

    Intense market and supply chain conditions – due in part to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine – have led to increasing inflation around the world, and Peru has been no exception. Today, the controversial Talara oil refinery will be inaugurated and touted by the government as a solution to the current energy crisis. It is not.

    April 12, 2022
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    New Oil Company Enters Failed Block 64, Again

    Achuar and Wampis communities are mobilizing against Petroperú’s intention to exploit the northern Peruvian oil block

    If you have followed Amazon Watch’s campaigns over the years, the name Block 64 might ring a bell. Over the course of almost 30 years, the Peruvian government has encouraged a steady parade of international oil companies to explore and exploit the oil concession, located near the border with Ecuador. All have hit a major obstacle: the vehement...

    February 8, 2022
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    Blue-Washing? GeoPark Tries to Launder Its Image Through U.N. Collaboration

    Can the United Nations support human rights defenders with one hand, while receiving money from an oil company with the other? An emerging scandal in the Colombian Amazon is forcing the U.N. to deal with the fallout from this contradiction.

    "The oil companies are operating in the Amazon anyway, and we can help make sure they abide by human rights standards." Such was the rationale presented by the head of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in Colombia, Jessica Faieta. The UNDP managed to get itself into quite a pickle and found itself in the uncomfortable position of...

    May 6, 2021
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    #AdiosGeoPark: Peruvian Indigenous Peoples Expel Another Oil Company

    The Achuar People of the Pastaza and the Wampis Nation secure a new victory for the climate justice movement by defeating fossil fuel company GeoPark

    Today, we celebrate a major victory after years of collaboration and hard work to fend off another multinational oil company that was supported by the world's largest investment firms and powerful governments.

    July 21, 2020
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    Indigenous Resistance Expels Oil Company GeoPark from Peruvian Amazon

    The Chile-based oil company's announcement follows years of protests, lawsuits, outreach to major shareholders, and direct advocacy with the CEO

    "GeoPark's departure from Block 64 is a testament to the vision and persistence of the Achuar people and Wampis Nation. Let this be the final nail in Block 64's coffin," said Andrew Miller, Advocacy Director at Amazon Watch.

    July 17, 2020
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    Goldman Sachs' Climate Action Is Not Enough

    "If Goldman truly wants to be a 'sustainability' leader, it must end corporate financing for fossil fuel expansion in the Amazon and around the world – particularly when that expansion happens on Indigenous territories."

    April 29, 2020
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    Citi's New Environmental and Social Policy Falls Short

    Citigroup's unambitious new policy, released just before its annual general meeting of shareholders, ignores the climate and Indigenous rights risks of oil drilling in the Amazon

    "If Citi truly cares about being a leader on climate and Indigenous rights, it must end corporate financing for fossil fuel expansion in the Amazon and around the world – particularly when that expansion is planned for the territories of Indigenous peoples."

    April 21, 2020
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    Report: The Five Biggest Financiers of New Amazon Oil Boom

    BlackRock, Goldman Sachs, Citigroup, HSBC, and JP Morgan Chase defy their own commitments by backing dangerous oil and gas extraction in the western Amazon

    Oakland, CA – A report released today by Amazon Watch shows how five American and British financial institutions are actively accelerating climate change and human rights abuses by providing billions of dollars in debt and equity financing for crude oil extraction projects in the western Amazon. Already, millions of acres of the western Amazon...

    March 12, 2020
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    COP25: Amazonian Indigenous Leaders Share Conclusions on the Summit

    Hearing a contradiction between what is being said and what is being done, indigenous leaders call for global support to stop new oil drilling, mining exploration, and deforestation in the Amazon Sacred Headwaters

    Madrid, Spain – Indigenous leaders representing twenty nationalities from Ecuador and Peru called for global support to stop oil drilling and mining in the Amazon Sacred Headwaters region – the most biodiverse terrestrial ecosystem on the planet.

    December 12, 2019
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