Learn more about the biggest issues facing the Amazon rainforest and its indigenous peoples in 2012 and how Amazon Watch is focusing on them.
Cofan
Driving the Company Off an $18 Billion Cliff
Ecuadoreans In Europe Highlight Chevron Management’s Misguided Litigation Strategy
SF Gate | Chevron was found guilty for environmental crimes in Ecuador in February of 2011 and fined upwards of $18 billion. Since that historic decision, Chevron’s litigation prospects have dimmed considerably.
Heck of a Job, Brownie!
Chevron revealed that CEO John Watson was paid about $25 million in 2011, up 52 percent from 2010. Last year was, of course, the year in which the company was ordered to pay $18 billion for oil spills in the Ecuadorian Amazon.
A Journey for Clean Water
Jungle Dispatch | The years have passed slowly. When Emergildo was a child he saw the Texaco helicopters hovering above the forest canopy and thought they were "metal birds." Then he saw the rivers run black.
A Day in Rumipamba
Jungle Dispatch | There was a Texaco oil spill in Rumipamba back in 1976. 35 years later, the Quichua convinced the state oil company to give them jobs, a pump, and some overalls and boots to clean up the decades-old spill. For booms, the Quichua use sticks from the forest.
Amazon Watch is building on more than 25 years of radical and effective solidarity with Indigenous peoples across the Amazon Basin.
It's Oil for Chocolate
Jungle Dispatch | Donald Moncayo has acted as the "fixer" for hundreds of journalists over the last decade on what has become known as "the toxic tour." He has been described in hundreds of articles, and he could possibly be the most photographed man in the northeastern Ecuadorian Amazon.
Dignity Incarnate
Inside Journey, Ecuador’s Cofán Still Standing Strong Against Chevron
Jungle Dispatch | I accompanied Emergildo Criollo from his home in Lago Agrio to a press conference in Quito. His voice trembles for a second, and then he says with strength: "I am Emergildo Criollo of the Cofán people, and I am proud to be here today."
Chevron's Leadership is an Oxymoron
The jury is no longer out: Chevron is a criminal – an unrepentant recidivist – not a leader. So why was it invited to speak at this year's BSR conference?
Indigenous Peoples Suffer Abuses in Race for Natural Resources: UN Rights Expert
UN News Service | Extraction of natural resources and other major development projects in or near the territories of indigenous peoples is one of the most significant sources of abuse of their human rights worldwide, an independent United Nations expert warned today.
18 Years of Fighting Chevron
Cofán elder Marina Aguinda Lucitante shares a song to mark the 18th anniversary of the monumental legal struggle against Chevron for massive environmental crimes in the Amazon rainforest.
Bad Oil: The Amazon's Toxic Mess
Sunday Night Show | When I first visited the area contaminated by Chevron in the Ecuadorian Amazon in my role as Amazon Watch Ambassador, I was not prepared to witness such destruction and contamination of the entire forest ecosystem.
