Cameron Joins Kayapo Chief Raoni and Other Indigenous Leaders in Advocating for Energy Alternatives to the Belo Monte Dam.
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Ecuadorian Court Orders Chevron to Pay $17 Billion for Oil Pollution in Amazon
Democracy Now! | The oil giant Chevron has been ordered to pay more than $17 billion in fines and punitive damages in a long-running case over environmental contamination in Ecuador.
Amazon Watch Elevates Indigenous Voices at UN Climate Talks
A short video featuring the voices of Indigenous leaders Marlon Santi, Sonia Guajajara, and Pablo Salon.
Belo Monte: It's Not Too Late!
The Brazilian government is on the eve of granting permission begin construction on the Belo Monte Dam, which would carve the world's third largest hydroelectric dam into the heart of the Amazon. We need to take action now before it's too late.
Defending the Rivers of the Amazon, with Sigourney Weaver
10-minute Tour in 3-D Highlights the Dam's Harmful Impacts on Xingu River and Greener Alternatives
Amazon Watch and International Rivers | Sigourney Weaver Narrates New Google Earth Animation on Brazil's Controversial Belo Monte Dam in the Amazon Rainforest.
Amazon Watch is building on more than 25 years of radical and effective solidarity with Indigenous peoples across the Amazon Basin.
A Message From Pandora Trailer
"A Message from Pandora" is a special feature produced by James Cameron about the battle to stop the Belo Monte Dam on the Xingu, one of the great tributaries of the Amazon River.
Peruvian Indigenous Leader Alberto Pizango Unjustly Arrested Upon His Return from Exile
Segundo Alberto Pizango Chota, president of the Peruvian national indigenous federation AIDESEP, was arrested immediately upon his return to Lima after several months in exile in Nicaragua.
James Cameron visits the Xingu River in Brazil with Amazon Watch
BROLL from Amazon Watch and James Cameron visiting communities that would be affected by the Belo Monte Dam Project in the Brazilian Amazon.
GDF Suez and the destruction of Brazil's Madeira River
The Madeira River in the Brazilian Amazon is under threat due to the construction of the Jirau dam by the French multinational corporation GDF Suez.
Message from Ecuador to Chevron CEO John Watson
A heartfelt message from the Amazon rainforest communities in Ecuador to new Chevron CEO John Watson: "We don't want to continue dying of cancer."
Battle for the Xingu
Iara Lee / Cultures of Resistance | Imagine if Hurricane Katrina was not a hurricane at all, but an event sponsored by the federal government, in collaboration with several multinational corporations. If your imagination fails you, then perhaps you'll get a clearer picture by learning about the people of the Xingu River.
Highlights from the LA Premiere of CRUDE
All tickets sold out hours before the event, and Sean Penn, Isla Fisher, Stuart Townsend, Q'orianka Kilcher, Armand Assante, Billy Wirth, and Rosanna Arquette were among the dozens of celebrities who attended.
Protests and Repression in Peru
For the past month, indigenous peoples have blockaded roads and rivers throughout the Amazon to protest new decrees which make it easier to transfer Amazon land and resource rights to oil, mining, logging and agricultural companies to the detriment of indigenous and campesino inhabitants.
Amazon Crude on 60 Minutes
This important documentary is entitled Amazon Crude and focuses on on the class action lawsuit against Chevron for deliberately contaminating the Ecuadorian Amazon and causing a wave of cancer and miscarriages in the region.
Occidental Petroleum in Achuar Territory: A Legacy of Harm
A short vignette of Occidental Petroleum's legacy of polluting the Peruvian Achuar territory. In support of the Achuar's campaign for justice, Amazon Watch is mobilizing an international campaign to force Occidental Petroleum to fund an environmental cleanup and to compensate affected communities.
S.O.S. Amazon!
Amazon Watch coordinated with indigenous organizations and other environmental organizations on this human banner at the World Social Forum in Belem, Brazil. The event was organized by Amazonian residents to draw attention to the crisis faced by massive deforestation of the rainforest - a crisis that affects us all.
Escuela Senen Soi
As a response to increasing threats from logging, oil and gas drilling, industrial agriculture, and mining, the Escuela Senen Soi was launched in 2007 as a training program by and for indigenous leaders of the Peruvian Amazon.
Chevron: The Real Human Story in Ecuador
Humberto, an Indigenous leader from Ecuador, describes the impacts of Chevron's oil exploration in the Ecuadorian Amazon Rainforest.
Cleaning Up Oxy
Indigenous leaders from the Peruvian Amazon and environmentalists today donned hazmat suits and staged a major "clean-up operation" outside the global headquarters of Occidental Petroleum (Oxy) to urge the company to remediate a toxic disaster it created in the Peruvian Amazon rainforest.
Chevron's inHumane Energy
The largest oil-related environmental disaster in the world - Chevron dumped over 18 billion gallons of toxic wastewater in the Ecuadorian Amazon. Now they are trying to hide their disaster and launching public relations campaigns about "human energy".
