"Given the threats facing Indigenous Peoples and the Amazon, we owe it to them and to future generations to move forward quickly.” ...

"Now we have gained time to organize, grow stronger, and show the world that what this mining company is saying is a lie: we were not consulted.” ...

Powerful global markets for gold and cocaine are threatening the heart of the world’s largest tropical forest, and the ...

"Safeguarding Indigenous defenders is our strongest defense against environmental crime, and they must not be left to fight ...

Quito, Ecuador – Ecuador’s government announced yesterday at the XXI Encuentro Anual de Petróleo y Gas (ENAEP 2026), the country’s premier oil and gas summit, that it would issue a tender for remote ...

Brasília, Brazil – Two days before the first round of Brazil’s presidential election, the U.S. government suspended consular services at its embassy and consulates across the country, citing “security ...

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 ...

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil – Yesterday, artists and organizers unveiled Confluence, a monumental new mural honoring women on the front lines of the fight to defend Amazonian rivers and territories.

For the Kichwa people of Sarayaku, defending their territory means defending the Amazon itself. Their struggle is deeply rooted in their ancestral territory in Ecuador, but the forces threatening the ...

Lima, Peru – A new investigation by Amazon Watch and Amazon Underworld reveals how organized crime, U.S.-led militarization, and extractive expansion are converging in the Colombia-Ecuador-Peru ...

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 ...