Protecting the Amazon and our climate in solidarity with Indigenous peoples

Amazon Watch partners with Indigenous peoples through campaigns to defend their rights, resist extractive industries, and demand corporate accountability. Through our programs, we stand in deep solidarity with Indigenous peoples across the Amazon, advancing their leadership, security, and sovereignty to protect their rights, cultures, and rainforest territories.

For nearly 30 years, Amazon Watch has practiced radical and effective solidarity with Indigenous peoples across the Amazon Basin. Our unique expertise is a combination of on-the-ground experience and long-term relationships with Indigenous communities, in-depth reporting and media capacity, global advocacy, and campaigns to challenge and change the policies of the governments and corporations responsible for the Amazon’s destruction.

• Corporate campaigns targeting emblematic companies pursuing destructive projects, exposing legal, financial, and reputational risks for corporate shareholders and investors.
• Global communications and media support using media outreach, storytelling, nonviolent direct action, protests, delegations, and other mechanisms to elevate Indigenous solutions.
• Legal defense, strategic advice, and accompaniment supporting partners’ legal cases to address personal and community-level threats and to advance land rights, justice, and respect for human rights.
• Research and publications to expose threats to Indigenous rights and territories; propose solutions; and hold countries, companies, and investors accountable.
• Direct solidarity funding through the Amazon Defenders Fund to support frontline communities and advance their autonomy and self-determination.
• International advocacy and partner accompaniment at key spaces including the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, UN Human Rights Council, UN Conferences of the Parties (COP) for the Climate and Biodiversity, and the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights.