Thank you to all who joined Amazon Watch at our 10th Annual Luncheon at the gorgeous Bently Reserve in San Francisco. It was a special opportunity to celebrate our accomplishments, learn more about the plans for the coming year and support our work.
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Indigenous March to Quito
Yesterday, thousands of indigenous people marched to Quito and began a national strike against proposed constitutional amendments that would curtail indigenous rights and allow President Rafael Correa to stay in power indefinitely.
Amazon Watch's 9th Annual Luncheon
Thank you to all who joined Amazon Watch at our 9th Annual Luncheon in San Francisco yesterday – we were absolutely blown away by a packed house and all your support, ideas, inspiration and love. The event was a huge success thanks to the hundreds of friends who came to join us in person and or live online. What an incredible community we've...
Amazon Women on the Frontlines of Climate Change
A selection of photos from Amazon Women on the Frontlines of Climate Change, a traveling photography exhibit with written and live testimonies from indigenous women leading solutions on the frontlines of the Amazon as the region confronts the impacts of climate change.
People's Climate March in New York City
Over 310,000 people filled the streets of New York City to participate in the largest climate march in history. Amazon Watch accompanied indigenous leaders from the Ecuadorian rainforest and marched with thousands of others calling globally to Keep the Oil in the Ground in the Amazon.
Amazon Watch is building on more than 28 years of radical and effective solidarity with Indigenous peoples across the Amazon Basin.
National Indigenous Mobilization in Brasilia
In response to attacks on indigenous rights, Brazil's National Indigenous Association has called for a national mobilization. Thousands of indigenous peoples are marching across Brazil.
Photos from Our 2013 Annual Luncheon
Our special guest this year was Mayalu Txucarramãe, an indigenous woman leader from Brazil working to defend her people from the Belo Monte Dam.
Vigil to Preserve Yasuní-ITT
The vast majority of Ecuadorians want to preserve Yasuní-ITT, and many of them held a vigil in front of the Presidential Palace to show their support for the plan.
Photos from Our 2012 Annual Luncheon
Our honored guests this year were Kichwa leaders from the Sarayaku community in Ecuador, who made world news headlines recently by winning their case before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights.
Occupy Belo Monte
Scenes from the indigenous-led occupation of Pimental Island on the Xingu River. More than 300 people representing 21 indigenous villages and 9 different ethnicities are participting so far.
"Rivers for Life" Human Banner at Rio+20
Nearly 1500 people used Rio’s Flamengo Beach as a canvas. Their bodies formed the lines of an enormous image promoting the importance of free-running rivers, truly clean energy and including indigenous knowledge as part of the solution to climate issues.
What Bulldozers and Cynical Politics Do, Shovels and Grassroots Resistance Undo
300 indigenous people, small farmers, fisherfolk, and local residents occupied the Belo Monte Dam project, removing a strip to restore the Xingu's natural flow and "freeing the river."
The True Cost of Chevron
International coalition shakes things up at Chevron annual shareholder meeting
Each year Chevron faces opposition at its shareholder meeting, but this protest drew a larger and more diverse crowd galvanized by the oil giant's year of legal problems, oil spills and fines for reckless business practices.
Human Rights Court In Unprecedented Visit to Sarayaku
Top judges of the Inter-American Human Rights Court visited the Kichwa indigenous community of Sarayaku to investigate their long-running case against the Ecuadorian government over rights abuses.
Achuar Leaders Take Their Cause to Canada
Four Achuar leaders traveled from deep in the Amazon rainforest to Canada to confront Talisman Energy for drilling for oil in their ancestral territory.
Indigenous Peoples Reach Quito After 600-km March
Thousands of indigenous peoples led by CONAIE converged on Quito today, culminating a 15-day march demanding a new water law, land reform, and an end to open pit mining and new oil concessions.
Occupation of the Belo Monte Dam Construction Site
"Belo Monte will only succeed if we do nothing about it. We will not be silent. We will shout out loud and we will do it now,"
The site of the Belo Monte Dam was peacefully occupied today by hundreds of indigenous leaders, fishermen and riverine people.
Photos from Our 2011 Annual Luncheon
This year's luncheon was a celebration of fifteen years of achievements for the people and rainforests of the Amazon.
International Day of Action to Defend the Amazon
People in 22 cities spanning 16 countries held solidarity demonstrations to urge Brazil to cancel the Belo Monte Dam and to defend the forest code.
Sarayaku Delegation in Costa Rica
Long-time Amazon Watch counterparts from Sarayaku were in Costa Rica over the week of July 4th, bringing their own government before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights.
Last Stand for the Xingu
Called by the legendary elder Kayapó Chief Raoni Metyktire, the assembly in Piaraçu aimed to discuss the impending human rights and environmental disaster that is the Belo Monte Dam on the Lower Xingu.
Ecuadorian Plaintiffs' Delegation Confronts Chevron
Amazon Watch and RAN are supporting a delegation of courageous indigenous and campesino leaders as they journey from the Amazon all the way to the U.S.
James Cameron and Arnold Schwarzenegger Visit the Xingu
The two met with members of the Kayopo and other Amazonian communities before speaking events at the World Forum on Sustainability.
2011 Delegation to the Ecuadorian Amazon
A journey to the heart of the Ecuadorian rainforest to experience both Chevron's legacy of contamination and the pristine and breathtaking Yasuni National Forest.
Amazonian Indigenous Delegation's Actions in Paris and London
Indigenous leaders traveled to Paris and London to protest the construction of mega-dams in the Amazon.
Dozens of New Oil Spills in the Northern Peruvian Amazon
A new report by the Federation of Indigenous Communities of the Corrientes River reveals the devastating ongoing impacts of oil drilling.
Protesters Demand the Release of Pepe Acacho and Other Leaders
Protesters in front of the court house where Shuar Indigenous leader Pepe Acacho and others are being processed demand that the charges against them be dropped.
Hundreds Protest Against the Belo Monte Dam
Outside the Brazilian Congress and Presidential Palace, hundreds of people gathered in protest, including indigenous chiefs and community leaders from the Xingu River basin.
Cultural & Environmental Destruction in the Ecuadorian Amazon
This is the first in a series of photo essays documenting the cultural and environmental destruction in this region of Ecuador by Texaco (now Chevron).
