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    Petroperú Minimizes Oil Spill in Piura: Damage Reported in 10 Thousand Square Meters of Sea and Four Beaches

    The state-owned company claimed the spill on the northern coast of Peru "was under control," but the Environmental Assessment and Oversight Agency and Municipality of Lobitos detect the spread of the environmental disaster

    Infobae | An oil spill resulting from an underwater terminal of Petroperú’s Talara Refinery has spread to four beaches in Lobitos on the northern coast of Peru, affecting approximately 10,000 cubic meters of the sea.

    December 22, 2024
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    The Kakataibo’s Fight for Survival Against Corruption and Amazon Crime

    A new, groundbreaking multimedia report exposes the perpetrators of land dispossession in the ancestral homelands of the last Kakataibo Indigenous peoples of Peru

    New multimedia report exposes the complex web of deforestation, drug trafficking, and state complicity threatening the ancestral homelands of the last Kakataibo Indigenous peoples of Peru.

    December 19, 2024
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    A Fossil-Free Amazon Has a Powerful New Ally

    A powerful new configuration of Parliamentarians for a Fossil-Free Future joined forces with Indigenous leaders at COP16 to usher in a new era of climate justice in the Amazon.

    November 7, 2024
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    Amazon Watch Statement on UN Biodiversity COP16

    Towards True Peace with Nature: Reflections and Urgent Actions Post-COP16

    On the path to the historic COP30 in 2025, it is imperative that the demands and vision of the global climate movement are front and center in negotiations to address the global climate crisis.

    November 1, 2024
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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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    Indigenous Peoples on the Front Lines of Criminal Economies in the Amazon Fight Back at COP16

    "Paper declarations, small projects, and militaristic approaches are failing to combat illegal mining and drug trafficking"

    "Prior consultation must be a key tool for implementing strategies to fight drug trafficking in the Amazon. Enough with empty declarations. We need real combined efforts between governments and our organizations if we want to defeat criminal economies."

    October 31, 2024
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    The Amazon Is in a State of Emergency: A Mandate for Action from Indigenous Peoples

    After participating in the COP on transnational organized crime in Vienna, and while the biodiversity summit is being held in Cali, two leaders from Peru show how criminal economies are the main threat to the rainforest and the people who care for it

    El País | The largest and most biodiverse rainforest in the world has become the most dangerous for those of us who protect it.

    October 23, 2024
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    Indigenous Leaders Confront Criminal Economies at the U.N.

    As transnational criminal economies increasingly threaten the Amazon rainforest, Indigenous rights, and our global climate, Peruvian Indigenous leaders Miguel Guimaraes and Herlín Odicio traveled to Vienna to make one thing clear: the world must act now

    “Indigenous leaders who protect the Amazon are being assassinated or live under constant threat. Criminal actors pollute our rivers, dispossess our territories, recruit our children, violate our peoples, and even threaten the survival of those in voluntary isolation.”

    October 22, 2024
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    Oil Over Life: The Cost of Petroperú's Environmental Catastrophe

    New oil spill from the North Peruvian Pipeline devastates frontline Indigenous communities amid talks of restructuring state-run oil company Petroperú

    Last week, the notorious North Peruvian Pipeline leaked at least 6,000 liters of oil, directly threatening the lives and livelihoods of the Indigenous Quechua and Achuar peoples of the north Peruvian Amazon.

    October 16, 2024
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    Murder of Peruvian Indigenous Earth Defender Underscores the Importance of Indigenous Land Rights

    The discovery of murdered Peruvian Indigenous leader Gerardo Keimari Enrique underscores the need to center land titling and Indigenous rights as key strategies to protect the Amazon and Indigenous peoples

    "This tragic incident is yet another case of an Indigenous leader who was targeted while advocating for a full land title for his community's territory in a contested area of the Peruvian Amazon."

    October 11, 2024
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    Indigenous Leadership at Climate Week: Amplifying Voices for Global Action

    At New York's Climate Week, Indigenous leaders from across the Amazon demanded urgent solutions to the climate crisis, highlighting the destruction of the rainforest and calling for an end to fossil fuel extraction

    The global shift in climate policy that we need will only happen if leaders listen to the voices of Indigenous and frontline communities, and if we collectively push for action.

    October 4, 2024
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    Staring Down the Barrel: What Peruvian Oil Company’s Crisis Means for the Public

    Fate of cash-strapped Petroperú holds major implications for national economy, Indigenous groups and the climate

    The Bureau of Investigative Journalism | “In the long term, PetroPerú has a big problem: it is billions of dollars in debt, its core business is oil – and the world is decarbonizing”

    October 3, 2024
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    Immediate Global Action Needed to Contain Amazon Fires Emergency

    Amazon Fire Response Fund established for immediate relief

    Amazon Watch stands with affected Indigenous peoples and traditional communities in calling on the governments of Amazon nations and the international community to take immediate action to address this crisis.

    September 17, 2024
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    From Crisis to Catastrophe: The Man-Made Inferno Devouring the Amazon

    The Amazon’s crippling drought and explosive fires are the result of human-induced climate change, with drastic implications for us all

    One commonality between Brazil and neighboring countries suffering from a scourge of drought and fires is a propensity to treat the symptom and not the illness.

    September 17, 2024
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    Oil Circuit and Human Rights

    Pipelines, spills and systematic violence against indigenous peoples in Peru

    This report analyzes the impacts generated by oil infrastructure in the northern Peruvian Amazon with emphasis on the human rights of Indigenous peoples.

    September 2024
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    Deforestation Declines, but Fires Rage On in the Amazon

    Why Peru's Amazon faces new fire patterns, and the urgent need to protect Indigenous lands for long-term survival

    This is how climate change operates: the warming climate is causing more frequent droughts, which dry out the forest, leading to deeper and more widespread fires – further intensifying climate change. It’s a destructive feedback loop.

    September 11, 2024
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    Terror and Cocaine in the Peruvian Jungle

    A new VICE documentary “Terror & Cocaine in the Peruvian Jungle” tells the story of Indigenous resistance to illegal economies in the Amazon. #AmazonUnderworld

    August 13, 2024
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    Solaris Stock Drops To an All Time Low After Misleading Statement

    “The company’s rosy and clear-cut description of its Warintza model is quickly falling apart in the eyes of investors and shareholders who have been fed inaccurate information for years. The share price plummeting to rock-bottom today is a testament to that.” 

    July 17, 2024
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    Kakataibo Indigenous Leaders Mobilize Against Coca Growers

    "Kakataibo organizations have intensified their territorial control and protection operations. This included seizures of illegal timber, destruction of clandestine laboratories, burning of coca fields, control of roads, community patrols, and reconnaissance overflights."

    July 12, 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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    Indigenous Women Denounce Violence and Call for Gender Justice in the Peruvian Amazon

    Peruvian authorities initially tried to minimize revelations of violence and sexual abuse at Indigenous public schools, but activists and civil society are not letting them cover it up

    In recent weeks, the Awajún and Wampís Women's Council made a shocking public denunciation of 524 cases of rape and abuse of children who attended public schools since 2010. 

    June 27, 2024
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