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Sapara

Mobilizing for Indigenous Rights and Climate Justice from the Arctic to the Amazon

Blog Mobilizing for Indigenous Rights and Climate Justice from the Arctic to the Amazon "Our participation in the Peoples Climate March was very important because we were able to bring the voice... May 2, 2017

Ecuadorian Indigenous Leaders Deliver Letter Calling on China to Abandon Oil Drilling in Their Territory as Ecuador Faces U.N. Review

Press Release Ecuadorian Indigenous Leaders Deliver Letter Calling on China to Abandon Oil Drilling in Their Territory as Ecuador Faces U.N. Review New York, NY – Indigenous leaders Manari and Gloria Ushigua from the Sápara nation of the Ecuadorian Amazon... May 1, 2017

Solar Power Lights Up Amazon Communities Fighting Dirty Energy

Blog Solar Power Lights Up Amazon Communities Fighting Dirty Energy "The government can't call us hypocrites for opposing oil extraction yet using dirty diesel generators. We've made the... April 18, 2017

Ecuador Election: No Good Option for the Amazon

Blog Ecuador Election: No Good Option for the Amazon Regardless of who wins, the response to the escalated social conflicts over extractive industry projects, rollback of indigenous... March 31, 2017

News The Controversy That Could Swing Ecuador’s Election Indigenous people make up as much as 30 percent of Ecuador's 16.5 million citizens, and their swing to... March 30, 2017

Community-Based Projects Are a Climate Change Solution and Need Our Support

Blog Community-Based Projects Are a Climate Change Solution and Need Our Support Throughout these years of peaceful resistance and advocating for the Amazon, I have grown to understand that a... March 29, 2017

Visiting Indigenous Communities in the Amazon Rainforest with Nahko of Medicine for the People

Blog Visiting Indigenous Communities in the Amazon Rainforest with Nahko of Medicine for the People Nahko has long been connecting his own indigenous roots – he is of Apache descent, as well Puerto... March 24, 2017

Musician and Activist Nahko Travels To the Amazon To Build Bridges of Indigenous Solidarity

Press Release Musician and Activist Nahko Travels To the Amazon To Build Bridges of Indigenous Solidarity Nahko, the musician and frontman of Medicine for the People, and his bandmate Patricio Zuñiga Labarca have just... March 23, 2017

Why We Rise and Resist for the Amazon

Blog Why We Rise and Resist for the Amazon Just a few weeks ago, I was in deep in the Amazon visiting our indigenous partners the Sápara... March 1, 2017

Reimagining Progress: Voices from the Ecuadorian Amazon

Blog Reimagining Progress: Voices from the Ecuadorian Amazon Developed jointly by the pair after experiencing first-hand the pressures faced by indigenous people in the Ecuadorian Amazon... October 24, 2016

Ecuadorian Indigenous Organization Resists Efforts To Divide and Undermine Its Work

Blog Ecuadorian Indigenous Organization Resists Efforts To Divide and Undermine Its Work Last Wednesday Amazon Watch received a very disturbing call: the headquarters of CONFENIAE, the regional organization of eleven... October 5, 2016

Global Solidarity from the Amazon to Standing Rock

Video Blog Global Solidarity from the Amazon to Standing Rock The Sioux fight is representative of other fights around the globe. If Standing Rock wins this, we will... September 22, 2016

Defend the Sacred: Making Indigenous Sacred Sites "No Go" Zones for Extractive Industries

Blog Defend the Sacred: Making Indigenous Sacred Sites "No Go" Zones for Extractive Industries "Whatever fine print comes out of the World Conservation Congress, Amazonian indigenous women will continue to protect our... September 8, 2016

Conservation Efforts Are Still Violating Indigenous Rights

Blog Conservation Efforts Are Still Violating Indigenous Rights With the recent centennial of the National Park Service, we've seen much publicity in favor of national parks... August 30, 2016

Press Release Historic Gathering of Indigenous Leaders Champion "No Go" Areas for Sacred Sites at IUCN World Conservation Congress A delegation of 25 powerful indigenous leaders from around the world will attend the quadrennial IUCN World Conservation... August 25, 2016

Unclean Hands: Corruption Plagues Ecuador’s Oil Deals with China

Blog Unclean Hands: Corruption Plagues Ecuador’s Oil Deals with China Ecuador is desperate to drill because it owes China billions as part of loan deals between the two... June 21, 2016

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