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    End Amazon Crude

    The Amazon is a no-go zone for oil drilling

    The western Amazon is one of the most biodiverse regions on Earth. This vital rainforest is under threat from previous and ongoing oil extraction – which pollutes rivers, harms wildlife and human health, and opens the forest to roads, deforestation, and further exploitation.

    Amazon Watch works in close partnership with Indigenous peoples to stop oil extraction at the source and reduce global demand for Amazon oil. Together, we are building pressure on governments, corporations, and consumers to phase out Amazon crude and protect the rainforest – before it’s too late.

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    The Rainforest Spoke. Amazonian Legislators Listened.

    The Parliamentarians for a Fossil-Free Amazon call for a moratorium on new oil and mining projects – starting with Indigenous territories.

    In the face of inaction and paralysis of countries in making significant progress to address the climate crisis and its principal driver – fossil fuels – a worldwide coalition of legislative leaders has taken matters into their own hands, demonstrating what true climate leadership can look like.

    October 9, 2025
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    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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    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 Watch is building on more than 28 years of radical and effective solidarity with Indigenous peoples across the Amazon Basin.

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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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    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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    Indigenous Amazonian Delegation Receives Honors in California Senate

    “California is complicit in violating our rights by continuing to consume crude that our courts and voters have said must stay in the ground. We are calling on California to take action to phase out its imports of oil that has come at a high price for our forests, our peoples, and our climate.”

    June 17, 2025
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    Drilling Toward Disaster

    Amazon Crude and Ecuador’s Oil Gamble

    The Amazon is rapidly becoming a new frontier for oil production. This coincides with the Amazon biome reaching an existential tipping point. Amazon crude from Ecuador is a major contributor to this dangerous cycle.

    June 2025
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    Chevron’s Toxic Empire on Trial

    Gross polluter and corporate criminal slammed at 2025 AGM as global protests mount

    “Chevron came in, extracted oil, poisoned the land and water, and then walked away."

    May 29, 2025
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    Toxic Empire on Trial: Chevron Faces Global Rejection from Shareholders

    Decades of damage spark a groundswell of resistance – from courtrooms to boardrooms

    “Shareholders need to understand they’re receiving dirty money – profits that are ill-gotten gains. This isn’t clean money generated by legitimate business practices. It comes from the suffering of people impacted by Chevron’s wrongdoing."

    May 28, 2025
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    2023-2024 Amazon Defenders Fund Report

    Stories of Solidarity

    The Amazon Defenders Fund (ADF) is an activist-led solidarity fund built upon Amazon Watch’s multi-decade track record as a trusted partner to Indigenous nations and local organizations.

    April 2025
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    Olivia Bisa Tirko’s Fight for Land and Culture

    By highlighting the importance of women’s leadership and the passing of ancestral knowledge to future generations, Olivia is ensuring the survival of her people and the protection of the Amazon. 

    March 8, 2025
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    2023-2024 Annual Report

    For 28 years, Amazon Watch has worked tirelessly to defend the Amazon rainforest in solidarity with Indigenous peoples. Reflecting on the past year, I am deeply moved by the courage of our Indigenous partners, and I am profoundly honored by the trust they continue to place in us.

    July 2024
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    2022-2023 Annual Report

    For 26 years, Amazon Watch has worked in solidarity with Indigenous peoples to advance their territorial land rights in the Amazon Basin, defending this extraordinary biome from a range of threats.

    July 2024
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    Investor Eye on the Amazon

    Updates for shareholders and activists concerned about rainforest protection and human rights

    The companies and banks behind Amazon destruction are feeling the heat as this year’s season of shareholder meetings comes to a close.

    June 2024
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    Amazon in Focus 2023

    Over the last year, hope and progress for the future of the Amazon and climate has been restored. With immense joy and pride, we celebrate recent victories to protect Indigenous land rights with the civil society consultation to keep oil in the ground in the Yasuní National Park in Ecuador and the Brazilian Supreme Court ruling declaring “Marco...

    Fall 2023
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    2021-2022 Annual Report

    Following years of multiple crises in the Amazon amid the COVID-19 pandemic, we began to see hope on the horizon in 2021-2022. It was a monumental year defending the Amazon and human rights!

    April 2023
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