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Paul Paz y Miño @paulpaz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Energy Transfer has sought to silence the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe by attacking Greenpeace and its allies. They have failed and will continue to fail. #NoDAPL! www.aptnnews.ca/videos/scath...
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Scathing report documents extensive due process violations in Greenpeace trial - APTN News
An independent committee of prominent advocates has issued a scathing report documenting extensive due process...
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Amazon Watch @amazonwatch.org · 24/09/2026
The committee found that Morton County, population roughly 33,000, was structurally incapable of providing an impartial jury. “It’s inconceivable that this jury could do anything other than ultimately enter a judgment on behalf of the plaintiff.” @greenpeace.org njtoday.news/2026/09/23/s...
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SLAPP lawsuit violated Greenpeace’s rights to a fair trial, lawyers say - NJTODAY.NEWS
An independent committee of human rights lawyers and scholars says the $667 million verdict against Greenpeace was the product of a fundamentally unfair trial, citing judicial bias, a tainted jury and...
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Amazon Watch @amazonwatch.org · 23/09/2026
For 30yrs, the U’wa people of Colombia & Amazon Watch have stood together– from resisting oil & gas extraction on U’wa lands to a historic human rights victory. U’wa leader Aura Tegría: “These are all places that we’ve walked together.” #StoriesOfSolidarity youtu.be/FN3axDzTEpA?...
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30 Years of Solidarity | Aura Tegría on Resistance, Friendship, and Defending Mother Earth
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Amazon Watch @amazonwatch.org · 23/09/2026
BREAKING: Juma Xipaia Denounces Canada’s Belo Sun Mining Corp in New York Event #ClimateWeek #DefendTheAmazon amazonwatch.org/news/2026/09...
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Juma Xipaia Denounces Canada’s Belo Sun Mining Corp in New York Event | Amazon Watch
“Listen to the Indigenous peoples who are saying no to this project of death,” said Juma Xipaia, founder of Instituto Juma.
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Amazon Watch @amazonwatch.org · 23/09/2026
$345 Million Verdict Against Greenpeace Should Be Overturned, Lawyers Say A group of civil-rights and free-speech lawyers accused the judge of bias and “general incompetence.” @greenpeace.org @greenpeaceusa.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/09/22/c...
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$345 Million Verdict Against Greenpeace Should Be Overturned, Lawyers Say (Gift Article)
A group of civil-rights and free-speech lawyers accused the judge of bias and “general incompetence.”
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Paul Paz y Miño @paulpaz.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I'm proud to be a part of the Trial Monitoring Committee & our report on Energy Transfer SLAPP suit against @greenpeace.org @greenpeaceusa.bsky.social. GP was entitled to an impartial jury & a meaningful opportunity to defend itself. This report concludes that it received neither. trialmonitors.org
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Amazon Watch @amazonwatch.org · 22/09/2026
BREAKING: Energy Transfer v @greenpeace.org @greenpeaceusa.bsky.social Trial Monitor final report by the Independent Monitoring Committee released: finds trial to be outragous miscarriage of justice. Read the findings, download the report & watch a recording here: www.trialmonitors.org
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Energy Transfer v. Greenpeace Trial Monitoring Committee
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Steven Grattan @sjgrattan.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
At least 124 land and environmental defenders were killed worldwide in 2025, according to Global Witness — and 85% of those deaths were in Latin America. Colombia remained the deadliest country for a fourth straight year, while killings in Brazil more than doubled from 2024. apnews/.com/article...
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Amazon Watch @amazonwatch.org · 15/09/2026
Amazon Watch will be at NY #ClimateWeek next week. Join us and take action for the climate, the Amazon, and Indigenous rights! Learn more about the events here: amazonwatch.org/get-involved...
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Events | Amazon Watch
Amazon Watch organizes and participates in local, national, and international events on a regular basis.
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Earthjustice @earthjustice.org · 14/09/2026
The AI data center boom is expected to be mostly powered by gas-fired power plants, putting our health at risk.​ Air pollution from gas-fired power plants for data centers is projected to contribute to roughly 600,000 asthma symptom cases and 1,300 premature deaths by 2028.​
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A.I. Boom Poses Growing Public Health Threat, Former E.P.A. Officials Warn (Gift Article)
Air pollution from gas-fired power plants to run data centers is expected to add at least $20 billion in annual health care costs by 2028, the group warns.
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Amazon Watch @amazonwatch.org · 14/09/2026
Indigenous peoples across the Amazon have delivered a mandate the world cannot ignore: protect their territories, respect their right to say no, and end fossil fuel extraction in the Amazon. Their rights are our collective future. #EyeOnTheAmazon #AmazonEmergency amazonwatch.org/news/2026/09...
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Indigenous Peoples Delivered a Mandate the World Cannot Ignore | Amazon Watch
At its core, the Mandate asserts that Indigenous peoples’ territories, their governance systems, and their knowledge are most effective for protecting the Amazon and their living territories.
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Amazon Watch @amazonwatch.org · 08/09/2026
BREAKING: Amazon Indigenous Community Turns Resistance to Illegal Gold Mining Into a Global Anthem “...what we must defend is life. And what is life? It is water. That is why we fight– because... we stand between life and death, above all for our children.” amazonwatch.org/news/2026/09...
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Amazon Indigenous Community Turns Resistance to Illegal Gold Mining Into a Global Anthem | Amazon Watch
"We are defending the life of the entire planet, that is why we ask ourselves: will we one day make a soup of gold or a soup of dollars?"
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Amazon Watch @amazonwatch.org · 03/09/2026
A mineral can be critical without every mine being justified. The Amazon’s rivers, forests & Indigenous territories are critical, too. A just energy transition must respect rights and consent – not turn “green mining” into resource colonialism. #AmazonFreeFromExtraction abcnews.com/Business/wir...
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Brazil’s Senate passes rare earth minerals regulation, paving the way for boosted exploration
Brazil’s Senate has approved a bill to regulate the exploration of critical minerals, including rare earths, marking a step toward exploiting its vast reserves
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Amazon Watch @amazonwatch.org · 03/09/2026
"Fire and drought risks will rise rapidly in the coming months, supercharged by the climate crisis and deforestation. Traditional communities and rural producers alike will be threatened, but the government also needs to consider small, remote settlements." sumauma.com/en/a-amazoni...
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The Amazon must brace for a “Godzilla” El Niño - SUMAÚMA
Fire and drought risks will rise rapidly in the coming months, supercharged by the climate crisis and deforestation. Traditional communities and rural producers alike will be threatened, but the gover...
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Amazon Watch @amazonwatch.org · 02/09/2026
Trump’s trade pressure and political intervention are emboldening the Bolsonaro movement and threatening Brazil’s 2026 election. New analysis from @WOLA_org: www.wola.org/analysis/bra...
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Trade Pressure and Political Intervention Converge in U.S.-Brazil Relations - WOLA
Just 47 days before Brazil’s first-round election, U.S.-Brazil relations have entered a particularly sensitive period. What was framed as a trade dispute has increasingly converged with Brazil’s 2026 ...
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Amazon Watch @amazonwatch.org · 01/09/2026
"Polls suggest a tight race and Trump and his secretary of state, Marco Rubio, have been accused of trying to tip the scales in Bolsonaro’s favour by launching an overt campaign of economic and diplomatic pressure against Lula." www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...
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Echoes of cold war as US accused of meddling in another Brazilian election
Claims that Trump and Rubio are trying to influence result have parallels with CIA intervention 64 years ago
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Amazon Watch @amazonwatch.org · 01/09/2026
BREAKING: 30ft Rio de Janeiro mural unveiled symbolizing the struggle of Indigenous, Quilombola & riverine women to defend Amazonian rivers frm industrial threats. "Defending territory means defending its waters, forests, people & all forms of life connected to them." amazonwatch.org/news/2026/09...
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Monumental Rio Mural Celebrates Women Defending Amazon Rivers | Amazon Watch
“When I look at these three women – Indigenous, riverine, and Quilombola – I also see a message about where many of the answers to the climate crisis lie: in the territories and in knowledge that gene...
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Amazon Watch @amazonwatch.org · 31/08/2026
In case anyone needed another reason... www.theguardian.com/food/2026/au...
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UK urged to ban imports of Brazilian meat over health concerns
Brazil has failed to prove compliance with EU rules on use of antibiotics in cattle and poultry farming
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Amazon Watch @amazonwatch.org · 28/08/2026
As Amazon Watch turns 30, we share stories from our partners and allies reflecting on the true meaning of solidarity and the connections that have endured many years to help defend the Amazon and Indigenous rights. #AmazonWatch30 WATCH at amazonwatch.org/stories-of-s...
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Stories of Solidarity | Amazon Watch
As Amazon Watch turns 30, we share stories from our partners and allies reflecting on the true meaning of solidarity and the connections that have endured many years to help defend the Amazon and Indi...
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Amazon Watch @amazonwatch.org · 28/08/2026
"Fujimori says she will expand fossil fuel production and mining across the country, as well as road, rail and port networks to facilitate extractive and productive projects." 🤦🤦🤦 news.mongabay.com/2026/08/plan...
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Plans of Peru’s new administration spur concern among environmentalists
Keiko Sofía Fujimori Higuchi from the Popular Force Party was sworn in as the new president of Peru on July 28. Fujimori, who has pledged to tackle insecurity using greater force and militarization, n...
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Amazon Watch @amazonwatch.org · 26/08/2026
#StoriesofSolidarity When COVID reached the Brazilian Amazon Amazon Watch provided oxygen concentrators to the Munduruku ppl. Alessandra Korap shares what that support meant.. “It was at that moment I saw Amazon Watch as more than a partnership. It was a true friend." amazonwatch.org/stories-of-s...
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Amazon Watch @amazonwatch.org · 26/08/2026
BREAKING: In a key development, Brazil’s National Indigenous Peoples Foundation (FUNAI) has officially recognized 20 Indigenous communities in the Amazon's Volta Grande do Xingu as potentially affected by the Canadian company Belo Sun's proposed mega gold mine. #MiningOut
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Amazon Watch @amazonwatch.org · 25/08/2026
"A Peruvian court has convicted four men of murder-for-hire and sentenced them to between 15 and 35 years in prison for the 2023 killing of an Indigenous Kichwa leader and rainforest defender." #DefendEarthDefenders #EndImpunity www.usnews.com/news/world/a...
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Amazon Watch @amazonwatch.org · 21/08/2026
BREAKING: Amazonian Communities Move To Protect Tocantins River Fish Nursery Community-led heritage declaration and federal petition aim to protect a unique and biodiverse 43-kilometer rocky ecosystem threatened with destruction in 2027 amazonwatch.org/news/2026/08...
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Amazonian Communities Move To Protect Tocantins River Fish Nursery | Amazon Watch
“We learned to fish by knowing every rock, every eddy, and every path through the Pedral. You cannot separate our lives from the Pedral do Lourenção.”
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Amazon Watch @amazonwatch.org · 21/08/2026
BREAKING: Indigenous Communities and Social Movements Unite Against Mining in Ecuador’s Amazon The action, held on the Jatunyaku River in Napo, formed part of the official program of the XII Pan-Amazonian Social Forum amazonwatch.org/news/2026/08...
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Indigenous Communities and Social Movements Unite Against Mining in Ecuador’s Amazon | Amazon Watch
On the Jatunyaku River, community representatives unfurled two banners bearing the messages that have echoed for years: "Water is life” and "Love the Amazon."
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Amazon Watch @amazonwatch.org · 20/08/2026
TAKE ACTION TODAY! ✊ Regulators Must Investigate Canadian mining company Belo Sun. Help stop what could become the largest gold mine in the Amazon. Use @chilliapp.bsky.social to send your email today! #DefendTheAmazon #MiningOut app.chilli.club/a/f0254f6b-4...
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chilli | regulators must investigate belo sun
Push Canadian regulators to examine Belo Sun and its Volta Grande project 🔎 (Photo Credit: Kamikia Kisedje/APIB)
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Amazon Watch @amazonwatch.org · 20/08/2026
California is the top destination for crude from the western Amazon. Its lawmakers are investigating how to stop this, but like to many things CA is trying to do to support the environment - they are under attack by the trump administration. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/20/c...
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How Trump Is Trying to Crush California’s Climate Policies (Gift Article)
At least a half-dozen federal agencies have taken action against the state that has led the nation in environmental protections.
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Amazon Watch @amazonwatch.org · 19/08/2026
"The Amazon is not a reserve of resources: it is a territory of life" - Patricia Gualinga of Sarayaku, Ecuador. This week, Indigenous peoples & communities from the 9 countries of the Amazon basin gathered at the Pan-Amazonian Social Forum in Puyo, Ecuador. elpais.com/america-futu...
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La Amazonia no es una reserva de recursos: es un territorio de vida
Esta semana, pueblos indígenas y comunidades de los nueve países de la cuenca nos reunimos en el Foro Social Panamazónico en Puyo, Ecuador. El encuentro plantea cómo acelerar la transición fuera de lo...
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Amazon Watch @amazonwatch.org · 18/08/2026
Another important post from our friends at MAAP: "Implications of upcoming major El Niño event on Amazon fires" www.maapprogram.org/el-nino-amaz... (read more about El Niño and the Amazon here: amwt.ch/~1idi)
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MAAP #248: Implications of upcoming major El Niño event on Amazon fires - MAAP
In our annual series on forest loss trends in the Amazon (MAAP #244 & MAAP #229), we observed that the two most recent intense fire seasons, 2016 and 2024, immediately followed major El Niño events.  ...
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Amazon Watch @amazonwatch.org · 17/08/2026
"Loreto is one of the Amazonian regions most affected by river-based mining activity. Mining dredges are a direct source of river contamination due to the substances used in the gold extraction process, most notably mercury." #AmazonCrime #NoAmazonMining www.maapprogram.org/gold-mining-...
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MAAP #247: River gold mining expansion in the northern Peruvian Amazon (Loreto region) - MAAP
Gold mining has been expanding in recent years across various regions of the Peruvian Amazon. Previous reports (for example, see MAAP #241) have shown the rapid expansion of gold mining deforestation ...
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Amazon Watch @amazonwatch.org · 14/08/2026
Paty Gualinga remembers Sarayaku’s journey bringing a canoe & powerful message to COP21 in Paris. For Amazon Watch, solidarity means demanding space for Indigenous voices in global climate talks & sometimes, it arrives by canoe. 📽️ #StoriesOfSolidarity amazonwatch.org/news/2026/08...
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From Sarayaku to Paris by Canoe | Amazon Watch
In this video, Paty Gualinga looks back on one unforgettable chapter in Sarayaku and Amazon Watch's shared history.
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Amazon Watch @amazonwatch.org · 09/08/2026
Today, on the International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples, we celebrate Indigenous leadership & recognize that celebration isn’t enough. We need to follow Indigenous leadership. The future is already being built. The world needs to listen. #IndigenousPeoplesDay2026 #IndigenousLeadership
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Amazon Watch @amazonwatch.org · 31/07/2026
In the Amazon, solar power is about safety, communication, food security, & the power for Indigenous peoples to protect the rainforest. Learn how Amazon Watch's #PowerToTheProtectors program, along with our renewable energy partners, is advancing Indigenous-led energy solutions. 🌞🌿
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Power to the Protectors: Indigenous-Led Energy for a Stronger Amazon | Amazon Watch
Indigenous-led renewable energy solutions can strengthen self-determination, protect forests, and equip communities to defend their territories and build resilient futures.
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Amazon Watch @amazonwatch.org · 29/07/2026
📣 @oilchange.org releases findings that Trump admin’s energy + AI dominance policies + hostility to renewables will make it harder for working families to afford their energy bills. Thanks to Trump, the wholesale price of fossil gas could DOUBLE over the next decade, outpacing inflation every year.
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Pay, Baby, Pay: Why Trump's Energy & AI Dominance Agenda Means Higher Bills For Everyone
Trump's energy and AI agenda could DOUBLE wholesale gas prices over the next decade, outpacing inflation and driving up energy bills.
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Amazon Watch @amazonwatch.org · 29/07/2026
🌿 Shoutout to our incredible Business Supporters & Artists! Protecting the Amazon, advancing climate justice & Indigenous rights takes all of us. We’re grateful to the businesses & creatives who stand in solidarity with Indigenous-led movements & support the solutions protecting our planet 💚
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Amazon Watch Business Supporters | Amazon Watch
Amazon Watch is grateful to the businesses and artists who support our mission to protect the rainforest and our climate in solidarity with Indigenous peoples.
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Amazon Watch @amazonwatch.org · 23/07/2026
For 30 years, Amazon Watch has shown up for our partners in the deeply human spaces where grief, resilience, & hope coexist.⁠ In this #VoicesOfSolidarity story, Donald Moncayo, president of @udapt.bsky.social, reflects on years of a shared commitment to justice & #IndigenousRights.
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Voices of Solidarity from the Amazon | Donald Moncayo, President of UDAPT
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Amazon Watch @amazonwatch.org · 14/07/2026
They didn't receive a favor. They won justice. After decades of struggle, the Kichwa community of Bajo Remanso secured legal title to 16,000+ hectares of their ancestral territory. Now Colombia must deliver accountability for the Remanso Massacre. Read more:
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They Delivered Justice, Not a Favor | Amazon Watch
The Remanso Massacre was not an isolated act. It is part of a wider pattern of violence sweeping across the Colombian Amazon and the tri-border zone where Colombia, Peru, and Ecuador converge.
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Amazon Watch @amazonwatch.org · 13/07/2026
Chevron spilled hydrocarbons into the SF Bay, again. They call it “less than a barrel,” like that makes it okay. This is a pattern: flaring, leaks, violations. Our communities & waters keep paying for their negligence. Enough is enough. #MakeChevronPay #NoMoreFossilFuels
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Chevron Reports Hydrocarbon Spill Into San Francisco Bay
Wednesday's leak adds to a series of refinery incidents that have drawn public attention in recent years.
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Amazon Watch @amazonwatch.org · 09/07/2026
🚨 NEW REPORT: The Colombia–Ecuador–Peru tri-border is at a dangerous point. Illegal gold is overtaking cocaine, militarization is expanding, and Indigenous communities are caught between armed groups and state violence. Read our latest investigation with Amazon Underworld.
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Triple Trouble: Geopolitics, Illicit Economies, and the Risks of the “War Against Narco-Terrorism” in the Colombia-Ecuador-Peru Tri-Border | Amazon Watch
A new report by Amazon Watch and Amazon Underworld documents how U.S.-backed militarization, expanding criminal economies, and incoming right-wing governments are converging in one of the most volatil...
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Amazon Watch @amazonwatch.org · 30/06/2026
Last day to vote 🚨 The Amazon is one of the 🌎 greatest defenses against climate change & Indigenous peoples are its strongest defenders. Vote for Amazon Watch through the CREDO Donations program to unlock critical funding for Indigenous-led efforts to defend biodiversity & advance climate justice.
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Amazon Watch @amazonwatch.org · 23/06/2026
Illegal mining & pollution threaten the rivers surrounding the Kichwa community of Capirona in the Ecuadorian Amazon. We're proud to be collaborating with Capirona on a water tank installation project to help improve access to clean water while they continue defending their territory. #WaterIsLife
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In Ecuador, an Indigenous community goes thirsty despite its two rivers
In the mining-plagued Ecuadorian Amazon, not even two rivers are enough to ensure safe water for an Indigenous community.
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Amazon Watch @amazonwatch.org · 22/06/2026
🌿 Today on #WorldRainforestDay, we honor the Amazon & its peoples. “Acontecer,” a new global collaboration from Playing For Change, brings together voices, including Manu Chao, to ask a powerful question: What will happen? 🎶 This song is a call to protect the Amazon & Indigenous rights.
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Playing For Change Brings Together Manu Chao and Alexandre Carlo in a Song for the Amazon | Amazon Watch
Today, Playing For Change, a global project known for bringing together musicians from different countries in collaborative videos, released the song “Acontecer,” an international call to protect the ...
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Amazon Watch @amazonwatch.org · 18/06/2026
At a time when the world must move toward a just energy transition, Sarayaku’s struggle represents far more than the defense of a territory. It is a global call to keep oil in the ground, respect Indigenous rights, and protect the Amazon for future generations.
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Amazon Watch @amazonwatch.org · 18/06/2026
Today, 14 years later, Sarayaku demands full compliance with that ruling: removal of explosives left by Compañía General de Combustibles, guarantees of non-repetition, & the end of new oil concessions on their territory & Kawsak Sacha, “the Living Forest.”
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Amazon Watch @amazonwatch.org · 18/06/2026
The historic victory before the Inter-American Court sent a clear message: governments cannot impose extractive projects on Indigenous territories while violating their collective rights and self-determination.
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Amazon Watch @amazonwatch.org · 18/06/2026
More than 20 years ago, Amazon Watch stood alongside Sarayaku in their resistance against the Ecuadorian State’s attempt to impose oil activities on their ancestral territory without their free, prior, and informed consent.
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Amazon Watch @amazonwatch.org · 18/06/2026
Today, the Kichwa Indigenous People of Sarayaku return to the Inter-American Court of Human Rights to demand that the Ecuadorian State fully comply with the historic 2012 ruling in the Sarayaku vs. Ecuador case, a precedent that transformed the defense of Indigenous rights across the region. 🧵
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Amazon Watch @amazonwatch.org · 17/06/2026
“We deserve transparency, we need to know what’s coming next” - Seng So (@Apen4EJ) on KPFA. #SB1259, being heard in the Assembly today, will help protect Californians from footing the cost of Big Oil’s mess by requiring refineries to disclose closure and remediation costs.
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Carson Refinery Cleanup & Rescued Beagles | KPFA
Asian Pacific Environmental Network’s Seng So & Animal Wellness Action and Center for a Humane Economy founder, Wayne Pacelle.
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Amazon Watch @amazonwatch.org · 15/06/2026
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Amazon Watch @amazonwatch.org · 05/06/2026
This World Environment Day, Chapra Nation President Olivia Bisa Tirko shares how Indigenous courage and global solidarity can challenge the systems driving destruction. 🎥 Watch her story and stand with Indigenous leadership. #WorldEnvironmentDay #DefendTheAmazon
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