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    This Is What True Climate Leadership Looks Like

    Indigenous women and the grassroots Amazonian movement carried COP30 on their shoulders

    “We’re very happy that our lands advanced in the demarcation process, but there are so many lands that still need to be recognized and demarcated in Brazil.”

    December 4, 2025
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    Growth from the Grassroots: Brazil’s 21st Indigenous Free Land Camp

    Indigenous people and community organizers from across Brazil and the world gathered in the country’s capital, Brasília, to consolidate demands ahead of COP30

    “How are we going to eliminate illegal deforestation by 2030 with a project that demands more deforestation, legal or not? It's not possible to talk about being a leader against climate change with a project to destroy the Amazon."

    April 25, 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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    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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    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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    Coming Together to Demand the Amazon as a No-Go Zone at FOSPA

    Amazon Watch participation in the 11th Pan-Amazonian Social Forum strengthened a regional coalition for an Amazon free of mining

    "Their money will run out, but our territory will remain here. We're not going to sell ourselves or our land to be destroyed."

    July 2, 2024
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    Indigenous Women Leaders Took Center Stage at COP28

    Hope for the path to COP30 as Indigenous women demonstrate effective advocacy, leadership, and solidarity

    “There are reasons to be hopeful. Lula delivered what he promised as far as deforestation and has promised zero deforestation by 2030. And he is very focused on climate justice – bringing those most vulnerable to the table.”

    December 14, 2023
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    Indigenous Women Reforesting Hearts and Minds to Heal Mother Earth

    “The struggle for Mother Earth is the mother of all struggles!”

    “We are here to say that we are the healing of the Earth, we are the ancestral voice of the Earth speaking to us. It is not possible to think about valuing human rights if you kill the Earth."

    November 14, 2023
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    10th Annual Global Anti-Chevron Day

    From Australia to Argentina, Richmond to Ecuador, the Anti-Chevron community remains united

    Anti-Chevron Day is not just about drawing attention to Chevron’s misdeeds, but also pointing out how many affected communities and their allies continue to support one another in resistance.

    May 23, 2023
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    Amazon Watch at COP15 in Defense of Biodiversity and Indigenous Rights!

    Canadian mining company Belo Sun’s stock took a major hit as our new report exposed major risks to investors during COP

    Indigenous communities are uniquely qualified to speak on the intersections between mining and biodiversity: Indigenous lands make up around 20% of the Earth’s territory, containing 80% of the world’s remaining biodiversity, requiring Indigenous peoples to be at the forefront of all decision-making regarding any global climate commitments.

    December 15, 2022
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    Reflections on Human Rights and Hope from COP27

    After two weeks in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt for the Climate COP27 (The United Nations Conference of Parties on Climate Change), I’m reflecting on our purpose in attending and the outcomes.

    December 3, 2022
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    Sarayaku’s Kawsak Sacha Is What the World Needs Now!

    The Kawsak Sacha proposal aims to sustainably preserve and conserve territorial spaces, the material and spiritual relationship established there by native peoples with the living forest and the beings that inhabit it.

    Fall 2022
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    Indigenous Peoples Refuse to Be Ignored

    The Amazon and Indigenous rights were amplified, not ignored, at the Summit of the Americas

    "Oil drilling in our Amazon has brought contamination, disease, deforestation, destruction of our cultures, and the colonization of our territories. It is an existential threat for us and violates our fundamental rights as Indigenous peoples."

    June 17, 2022
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    Annual Indigenous Free Land Camp Occupies Brasília

    “The demarcation of lands of all Indigenous peoples in Brazil continues to be our main goal. But to guarantee the demarcation, the protection of our lands, we must also 'Indigenize politics' with the presence of diversity, of women occupying the positions of power and decision-making positions.”

    April 19, 2022
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    Inspiration, Healing, and Resistance from Amazonian Women Defenders!

    Executive Director Leila Salazar-López traveled to the Ecuadorian Amazon to show solidarity and amplify Indigenous women’s work against Amazon destruction

    On March 6, Indigenous women from across the Ecuadorian Amazon traveled to Puyo for the inauguration event of the Casa de Mujeres Amazónicas, a gathering and healing space for Indigenous women defenders of the Amazon. It is a safe space where women can strategize, create, share, and heal together, including work on programming to support women’s...

    March 28, 2022
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    2021 Was a Year to Reflect, Reclaim, and Reconnect

    2021 was full of highs and lows as we entered our second year in physical isolation from one another. We celebrated 25 years as an organization with our community, in deep solidarity with Indigenous peoples. We reflected on all that we have accomplished together and what challenges remain ahead.

    December 23, 2021
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    We Will Continue to Unite and Organize for the Amazon and Climate Justice, Despite COP26

    After two intense weeks in Glasgow for COP26, we are back home reflecting on the outcomes. While the Glasgow Pact does not meet the action needed to address the climate emergency, the civil society presence was truly inspiring. Indigenous peoples, frontline communities, women, and youth attended in full force organizing for climate justice and...

    November 22, 2021
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    Amazonian Women Mobilize to Demand Justice and Support for Earth Defenders

    The Amazonian women joined the march with the goal of amplifying their voices of resistance against extractivism

    Over 100 Amazonian women, representing multiple Indigenous nations across Ecuador, came together to march for the dignity of their peoples, to reclaim their songs and wisdom, to re-ignite their fight against extractivism, and to address social inequality and the rampant impunity for those who attack defenders of nature.

    March 19, 2020
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    Amplify! A Celebration of Voices from the Amazon

    Thank you to all our friends and supporters who joined us on October 5th, 2018 for our annual gala - Amplify! A celebration of voices from the Amazon.

    November 28, 2018
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    Amplify! A Celebration of Voices from the Amazon

    Thank you to all our friends and supporters who joined us on September 27th, 2017 for our annual gala - Amplify! A celebration of voices from the Amazon.

    September 28, 2017
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