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Indigenous Brazilians Protest Amazon River Dredging for Grain Exports

AFP | Hundreds of Indigenous people have been protesting in northern Brazil for two weeks outside the port terminal of U.S. agribusiness giant Cargill, angered over the dredging and development of Amazonian rivers for grain exports.

February 4, 2026

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Indigenous Protesters Block Cargill Facility in Brazil Over President Lula’s Decree

Associated Press | Hundreds of Indigenous people have been protesting for almost a week at a Cargill facility in Brazil against a decree allowing the federal government to consider private concessions for waterways.

January 28, 2026

7,617 views

2 min read

The Amazon Does Not Need New Wars

U.S. security strategy revives a past the region is trying to overcome

El País | If history offers any lesson, it is this: every time the Amazon has been militarized in the name of order, the forest lost, its peoples lost, and democracy lost. Repeating that path is not a solution.

December 17, 2025

5,493 views

4 min read

Indigenous People Are Leading the End of the Fossil Fuel Era in the Amazon

Newsweek | The path forward is simple and urgent. Governments must declare the Amazon and Indigenous territories no-go zones for fossil fuels.

December 16, 2025

5,454 views

3 min read

“It’s Not Safe to Live Here.”

Colombia is deadliest country for environmental defenders

Associated Press | “We have to continue defending the future, and we need more and more people to join this cause.”

December 8, 2025

7,266 views

5 min read

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Ferrogrão Reignites Conflict Between the Government and Indigenous Peoples at COP30

AFP | “We are not going to allow it, because this is our home, our river, our forest.”

November 20, 2025

7,197 views

3 min read

Protect the Amazon, Tax the Polluters: Climate Activists Demand Action at COP30 in Belém, Brazil

Democracy Now! | The Brazilian government said, "We’re going to put a hold on Ferrogrão. We’re not going forward on this soy railway for Cargill and ADM and Bunge and all these multinational corporations to feed animals, not people. We’re not going forward with this without people’s consent.”

November 17, 2025

5,312 views

13 min read

The Fight Against Climate Change Is Also a Fight Against Organized Crime

Belém COP cannot succeed without taking decisive action

Open Global Rights | Belém can be remembered as a turning point – when the world stopped treating the Amazon as a victim and began dismantling the criminal economies driving its collapse.

November 6, 2025

5,081 views

4 min read

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

5,765 views

3 min read

Indigenous Caravan Departs from Sinop to Belém To Protest Against Ferrogrão

Folha de S.Paulo | “We will not allow the interests of large corporations, such as Cargill and Bunge, to destroy our rivers and forests."

October 1, 2025

7,082 views

2 min read

Ferrogrão Is a Shortcut to Collapse

The railway is being sold as a logistical solution, but in practice it means more deforestation, land invasions, and poison

O Globo | Ferrogrão is the backbone of a corridor that transforms the Amazon into a commodity export route and condemns Brazil to a subservient role.

September 30, 2025

7,630 views

3 min read

Indigenous Groups Criticize Ecuador’s $47 Billion Oil Expansion Plan in Amazon

Associated Press | “The Amazon is not for sale. We will defend our territories because we have not been consulted – this is our home."

September 24, 2025

5,319 views

3 min read

Interview With Chief Raoni: “Congressmen Only Think About Destruction, Not About Future Generations”

Indigenous leader says he is skeptical about the practical effects of COP30 and laments that, under the Lula administration, projects such as Marco Temporal and the Destruction Bill are moving forward

O Globo | On the eve of COP30, Raoni is also skeptical about the environmental meeting to be held in Belém.

September 11, 2025

6,521 views

5 min read

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

4,864 views

2 min read

Indigenous Groups Demand Action from South American Leaders at Amazon Summit

Associated Press | “There is no solution to any of the threats the Amazon is facing without its communities.”

August 19, 2025

4,950 views

2 min read

When Criminals Rule the Amazon Jungle and Time Runs Out

The crisis of public security, environmental crime, and human rights must be on the agenda of the Summit of Amazonian Countries

El País | Without coordinated action and meaningful inclusion of local voices, the region faces escalating violence and irreversible damage to one of the world’s most critical ecosystems.

August 19, 2025

5,466 views

4 min read

In Ecuador, Environmentalists Worry Noboa Is Unwinding Nation’s Green Reputation

Associated Press | “We are seeing a sweeping package of regressive reforms that are rolling back environmental protections, Indigenous rights guarantees, and threatening basic civil liberties like the freedom of speech and assembly,"

August 4, 2025

4,788 views

4 min read

Soy Dictates the Path: How Ferrogrão is Reshaping Life in the Amazon

Folha de S.Paulo | "Soy farming will increase a lot. When it rains, the pesticides flow into the river. We have no wells to rely on. There’s nowhere to run, and all our children get sick."

July 19, 2025

6,688 views

5 min read

Indigenous Wampis Are Ambushed in Peru After Government Backs Out of Anti-mining Joint Patrol

Associated Press | Indigenous leaders say the incident highlights the growing risks faced by land defenders and the government’s failure to uphold its promises.

July 16, 2025

4,078 views

2 min read

California Is to Examine Its Amazon Oil Ties Following Pleas from Indigenous Leaders from Ecuador

Associated Press | “Being here with our brothers and sisters, with the local communities also fighting – in the end, we feel that the struggle is the same.”

June 19, 2025

4,035 views

4 min read

Amazonian Communities in Peru Rejoice as Plan for Oil Drilling on Ancestral Land Stalls

Peru’s state-run oil company failed to attract any bids to develop an oil field that overlaps ancestral territories of several Indigenous groups

Associated Press | “Local communities and their allies will remain alert to this zombie project which has been killed multiple times but always attempts to return from the dead.”

May 16, 2025

3,360 views

2 min read

The Wisdom That Panduro Took With Him

Three years after the army perpetrated the Alto Remanso massacre, in which several civilians were killed, a community that almost disappeared is trying to recover from the absence of the leader who healed them and taught them their language

Voragine | Pablo Panduro was killed on March 28, 2022 during an army operation in which 11 people were killed, and which was carried out against the Border Command, a FARC dissident group that controls most of Putumayo.

April 8, 2025

2,559 views

15 min read

Survivors of Alto Remanso Massacre in Colombia Commemorate Their Dead

This past Friday, in Bajo Putumayo, another anniversary was held to remember the military operation that killed at least eight civilians. At the time, authorities tried to pass the victims off as guerrillas killed in combat

El País | On March 28, 2022, the Military Forces of Colombia carried out an operation by air, water and land. Eleven people died, four were wounded and around 350 were displaced.

April 2, 2025

3,841 views

9 min read

Foreign Investors in Peru’s State Oil Company Risk Nation’s Turbulent Politics

In a region notorious for political instability, the South American country presents an extreme case

Financial Times | “This debt crisis drives Petroperú’s renewed plans to expedite new domestic oil production in highly contested reserves.”

March 4, 2025

4,765 views

3 min read

Illegal Mining in the Amazon: “Criminal Governance Is Expanding and Becoming Increasingly Violent”

Mongabay | Raphael Hoetmer, director of Amazon Watch's Western Amazon Program, spoke with Mongabay Latam about the advance of mining in the Amazonian territory of Peru, Colombia, Bolivia, Ecuador and Venezuela.

March 2, 2025

3,117 views

12 min read

The Climate Crises in Los Angeles and the Amazon Rainforest Are Inextricably Linked

The Sacramento Bee | To address the root cause of these interconnected crises, we must unite our calls to keep oil in the ground, from California to the Amazon.

January 29, 2025

6,074 views

3 min read

Amazon’s Advocates Fear Trump’s Return Means Little U.S. Help to Protect Rainforest

Associated Press | “Trump 2.0 will offer Amazonian governments a permission structure to ignore or walk back climate commitments, precisely at the moment when protection of the rainforest demands greater ambition and regional coordination.”

January 28, 2025

6,075 views

5 min read

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

1,578 views

4 min read

President Biden: Stand Up to Chevron and Pardon Steven Donziger

Chevron spent billions trying to destroy him after he won the largest pollution case in history. It’s time for Biden to end this nightmare

The Guardian | Donziger’s story is nothing new. We all know that billion-dollar corporations wield their influence to silence critics. But what is so jarring about this case is the lengths to which Chevron has gone to manipulate the courts, corrupt the rule of law, and evade accountability.

December 13, 2024

6,325 views

4 min read

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All News Articles

U.S. security strategy revives a past the region is trying to overcome

Colombia is deadliest country for environmental defenders

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

Belém COP cannot succeed without taking decisive action

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

The railway is being sold as a logistical solution, but in practice it means more deforestation, land invasions, and poison

Indigenous leader says he is skeptical about the practical effects of COP30 and laments that, under the Lula administration, projects such as Marco Temporal and the Destruction Bill are moving forward

The crisis of public security, environmental crime, and human rights must be on the agenda of the Summit of Amazonian Countries

Peru’s state-run oil company failed to attract any bids to develop an oil field that overlaps ancestral territories of several Indigenous groups

Three years after the army perpetrated the Alto Remanso massacre, in which several civilians were killed, a community that almost disappeared is trying to recover from the absence of the leader who healed them and taught them their language

This past Friday, in Bajo Putumayo, another anniversary was held to remember the military operation that killed at least eight civilians. At the time, authorities tried to pass the victims off as guerrillas killed in combat

In a region notorious for political instability, the South American country presents an extreme case

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

Chevron spent billions trying to destroy him after he won the largest pollution case in history. It’s time for Biden to end this nightmare

"Your reports helped our foundation divest from companies whose practices destroy the Amazon rainforest. We're honored to support your work. Thank you for showing us a better way."

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