Amazon Watch
    Amazon Watch

    Kichwa

    Burlington Resources' Plans for Ecuador Run Into Opposition

    New York Times | Houston - Burlington Resources, a large independent energy company, has been seeking to drill for oil in a remote part of the Ecuadorean Amazon since the late 1990's, when it acquired an exploration property there. Pablo Tsere, an Indian leader from the same area, has been opposing the company's efforts for just as long.

    April 22, 2004
    6,040 views
    3 min read

    Tribe Delivers Message at Shareholder Meeting

    Houston Chronicle | Wearing his traditional headdress made of toucan feathers, tribal leader Pablo Tsere asked Houston-based Burlington Resources to stay out of his back yard — the Amazon rain forest.Tsere is chief of the 80,000-member Shuar tribe of southeastern Ecuador.

    April 22, 2004
    1,083 views
    3 min read

    Tribe from Ecuador Protests Burlington Oil Drilling Project in Amazon

    AP | The leader of a tribe in Ecuador traveled from the Amazon rainforest to Texas for a shareholders' meeting at a major oil and gas exploration company in order to express his people's opposition to an oil drilling project in theenvironmentally threatened region.Pablo Tsere, chief of the 80,000-member Shuar tribe

    April 22, 2004
    620 views
    2 min read

    Burlington Ecuador Oil Project Seen Facing Showdown

    Reuters | Houston - A long-running fight to halt oil exploration in the Ecuadorean Amazon by U.S. independent energy producer Burlington Resources (BR.N: Quote, Profile, Research) and its partner is is nearing potential conflict with the threat of military intervention looming, indigenous leaders said yesterday.

    April 21, 2004
    4,577 views
    3 min read

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

    DONATE NOW

    Burlington Urged to Exit Amazon Blocks

    International Oil Daily | An Amazonian Indian leader wearing a head-dress made of red, yellow and black Toucan feathers urged Burlington Resources on Wednesday to drop plans to explore for oil on two large tracts of land in the jungles of southeast Ecuador.

    April 21, 2004
    2,415 views
    2 min read

    Amazonian Indigenous Chief Addresses Burlington Resources Shareholders on Controversial Oil Projects “Immediately Withdraw from our Territory.” Investors Voice Concerns at Company Meeting --Recent footage of growing conflict, the indigenous commun

    Houston — Today at Burlington Resources’ annual meeting, shareholders were addressed directly by the chief of the Shuar people of the Ecuadorian Amazon who had traveled thousands of miles and several days to voice the adamant opposition of the region’s indigenous peoples to Burlington’s planned oil projects on their t

    April 21, 2004
    4,214 views
    2 min read

    Amazonian Indigenous Leaders Travel to Houston – Call on Burlington Resources to Immediately Abandon Controversial Oil Drilling Projects on Their Territories

    Burlington Investors to Raise Concern at Corporation’s Annual Meeting about Growing Tension around the Rainforest Projects10-Minute Video Exposé on the Threats from Burlington’s Ecuador Oil Projects to Premiere – Recent footage of growing conflict, the indigenous communities, rainforest, and oil

    April 15, 2004
    1,301 views
    3 min read

    Houston-based Burlington Resources Prepares to Use Ecuadorian Military to Forcibly Enter Amazon Indian Lands --- Military Invasion Expected As Early as Tomorrow --

    Indians Declares a State of Emergency and Call for Area to be Permanently ProtectedBurlington Investors Raise Concern about Growing Controversy and Rights Violations – Broadcast quality digital video and high-resolution stills of the community, rainforest, oil drilling and conflict available –

    January 28, 2004
    3,100 views
    1 min read

    Sarayaku Declares State of Emergency

    El Comercio | The community of Sarayaku (Pastaza) has declared a state ofemergency to defend its territories against oil exploration.The decision was the result of a visit by President Lucio Gutierrez and Minister of Energy and Mines Carlos Arboleda to Pastaza on January 18.

    January 25, 2004
    5,485 views
    3 min read

    Kapawi Journal-- Ecuador Indians Fend Off Oil Companies with Tourism

    New York Times | An Achuar Indian, Cristóbal Callera treads through the jungle like a child of the rain forest. But on a recent day he had a gaggle of heavy-footed tourists in tow, the rain falling in waves and the trail mired in mud. Mr.

    January 19, 2004
    5,713 views
    4 min read

    Seeking Balance: Growth vs. Culture in Amazon

    New York Times | Pumpuentsa, Ecuador — As international energy companies move into the Amazon basin to tap some of the last untouched oil and natural gas reserves, more and more natives are fighting to keep them out. Oil workers and contractors have been kidnapped, company officials say. Equipment has been vandalized.

    December 10, 2003
    5,810 views
    8 min read

    An Announcement by the Kichwa People of Sarayacu

    Puyo, Ecuador - The Kichwa People of Sarayacu, in fulfillment of its historic declaration that it will defend its ancestral territories and its absolute opposition to petroleum related exploitation on its lands, is now informing all authorities (whether they be at the local, provincial, national or international levels) as we

    December 4, 2003
    4,475 views
    2 min read

    Controversial Oil Projects in the Amazon Spark Shareholder Resolution for Houston-based Burlington Resources Inc. Investors Call on Oil Company to Adopt Policy on Indigenous Peoples Amazon Indigenous Peoples Reaffirm Opposition to Burlington’s Plans t

    Resolution Text at End.Boston - Today Boston Common Asset Management filed a shareholder resolution with Houston-based Burlington Resources Inc. calling on the company to adopt a policy on indigenous peoples. Boston Common filed the resolution on behalf of its client, the Brethren Benefit Trust, Inc.

    November 20, 2003
    5,515 views
    5 min read

    Indigenous Leaders Bring Message to U.S., Gain International Attention

    From the Pachamama Office in Ecuador:In early May, leaders from the Achuar, Shuar, and Zápara peoples arrived at the international headquarters of Burlington Resources to manifest their unified opposition to the multi-national oil company’s operations in ancestral indigenous territories.

    June 1, 2003
    2,197 views
    2 min read

    Indigenous Leaders from Ecuador and Peru Present “Eviction Notice” to Burlington Resources of Houston Call on Oil Company to Leave Amazonian Territories

    Houston – At 12:00 noon today seven indigenous leaders, representing 100,000 people living in approximately 4 million acres of pristine rainforest, accompanied by their lawyer and various supporters, appeared at the headquarters of the oil company Burlington Resources to deliver an “Eviction Notice” calling on the compa

    May 14, 2003
    5,471 views
    2 min read

    Makuma - Morona Santiago Ministerial Agreement N° 2881 - of December 27, 1996

    The Inter-Federation coordinating body announces to the national and international public the tragic loss of our friends and colleagues Joaquin Najamdey, President of FIPSE, Rodrigo Wampankit, Parliamentarian of FIPSE and Samuel Wampankit Head of Territorial Affairs of FIPSE.

    May 7, 2002
    1,502 views
    2 min read

    CDES Requests an Investigation into the Deaths of Shuar Leaders in an Air Accident

    The Center for Social and Economic Rights, CDES, demands an immediate and transparent investigation into a tragic plane crash in the Ecuadorian Amazon which caused the deaths of 3 high level leaders of the Shuar people who were engaged in the lawsuit that the Shuar are bringing against the oil company Burlington on grounds of

    May 7, 2002
    2,984 views
    2 min read