"Yesterday's announcement changes nothing on the ground. Indigenous nations have opposed oil extraction in these territories ...

"Regardless of the election outcome, decisions involving mining, oil, and infrastructure must respect Brazil’s sovereignty, environmental laws, and the rights of Indigenous peoples and traditional ...

I stand in solidarity with the Awajún Wampis Women’s Council Umukai Yawi (COMUAWUY) and amplify their call for protection and ...

The Waorani people took to the streets of Puyo to mark the three-year anniversary of Ecuador's historic Yasuní referendum and ...

The threat posed by Canadian mining company Belo Sun to the Volta Grande do Xingu has reached Brazil’s Federal Supreme Court (STF). Brazil’s Office of the Prosecutor General (PGR) has asked the Court ...

Yesterday, I participated in the inauguration of a monumental new mural in Rio de Janeiro celebrating Indigenous, Quilombola, and riverine women who defend the Amazon’s rivers and territories. At the ...

Today, August 20, 2026, we come together in the city of Puyuk¹ to denounce three years of non-compliance with the popular consultation to leave oil in the ground. The Yasuní mandate calls the peoples ...

In May, Indigenous leaders brought the Amazon’s organized crime crisis to the U.N. in New York, demanding a meaningful role in fighting illegal mining, logging, and trafficking. Since then, ...

This month, Amazon Watch and the Autonomous Territorial Government of the Chapra Nation (GTANCH) fulfilled a dream years in the making. Working alongside GTANCH president Olivia Bisa, we brought solar ...

More than two decades ago, helicopters, soldiers, and oil workers descended on the territory of the Kichwa people of Sarayaku, in the heart of the Ecuadorian Amazon. Backed by the Ecuadorian ...

This month, news broke that El Niño has officially begun. Scientists predict a strong likelihood that this year’s El Niño, a naturally-occurring climate phenomenon driven by warmer-than-average sea ...

Nearly three decades after communities in the Ecuadorian Amazon first brought global attention to Chevron’s crimes, and 13 years after activists launched the first Anti-Chevron Day in 20 countries, ...