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Protecting the rainforest and our climate in solidarity with Indigenous peoples since 1996. #EndAmazonCrude #MiningOutOfTheAmazon #DemarcationNow 🌿🦋🐒
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BREAKING: new report by Amazon Underworld & Amazon Watch reveals the mechanisms of control used by criminal networks, the capture of territories, & structural absence of effective state governance in the tri-border area between Colombia, Ecuador, & Peru. #AmazonCrime amazonwatch.org/news/2025/08...
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El Pais: A just energy transition must begin from the principle of shared but differentiated responsibility. COP30 in Brazil will be a decisive test: will govts commit to declaring the Amazon a fossil-free region, or allow it to become a sacrifice zone?- K. Koenig english.elpais.com/climate/2025...
Ecuador and oil: a challenge for democracy and the Amazon
Since the adoption of the Paris Agreement, more than 950,000 square kilometers have been opened for oil and gas exploration in Latin America and the Caribbean, an area larger than Venezuela
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#ChevronToxico #CleanUpEcuador #EndChevron
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A massive fire erupted last night at the Chevron refinery in El Segundo. This horrible disaster is yet another reminder of the grave dangers the fossil fuels economy poses to California communities.
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🌍 Around the world, people are rising to #DrawTheLine for a safer, fairer future.

We’re proud to partner with @ekoenergy.bsky.social
who champion renewable energy + climate justice alongside frontline communities.

Together, we’re building the future we need. 🌱

#PhaseOutFossilFuels #ClimateJustice
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📏 Today, in almost 100 countries, people are rising to #drawtheline – against fossil fuels, against greed, and for a safer, fairer future.

Here we are, drawing the line, together with @ilmastoisov.bsky.social and other participants in today's Fridays For Future demonstration.

#PhaseoutFossilFuels
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RIP to Jane Goodall. Grateful for all she did to help so many see, appreciate, and respect the natural world. #RIPJane
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The railway is being sold as a logistical solution, but in practice it means more deforestation, land invasions & poison.
The Munduruku already feel these impacts. In the Praia do Índio & Mangue lands in Itaituba soy ports contaminate the water & restrict fishing.
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Ferrogrão Is a Shortcut to Collapse | Amazon Watch
Ferrogrão is the backbone of a corridor that transforms the Amazon into a commodity export route and condemns Brazil to a subservient role.
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Congrats to Nina Gualinga, featured today as one of Time Magazine's 100 most influential "rising stars"!

"The forest has things to say, and Nina—always so wise, thoughtful, and observant—is one of her most powerful messengers."

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Nina Gualinga Is on the 2025 TIME100 Next
Find out why Nina Gualinga is on this year’s list
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“Ecuador’s plans to auction new oil blocks in the Amazon are doomed to fail. Indigenous resistance, civil society mobilization, & growing international pressure will continue to expose these projects as illegitimate, unlawful, & unfinanceable.”-Kevin Koenig of @AmazonWatch apnews.com/article/oil-...
Indigenous groups criticize Ecuador’s $47 billion oil expansion plan in Amazon
Ecuador’s plans to offer dozens of blocks of land for oil exploration for more than $47 billion has prompted opposition from seven Indigenous peoples in the Amazon.
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Our Dep. Dir. @paulpaz.bsky.social joined human rights lawyer Steven Donziger on Alec Baldwin's podcast to discuss Chevron, SLAPP suits (& the lawyers who enable them like Gibson Dunn) & the ETP v Greenpeace case. Lawfare & threats to free speech continue to grow: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p...
Paul Paz y Miño and Steven Donziger from Rainforests to Courtrooms
Podcast Episode · Here's The Thing with Alec Baldwin · 09/23/2025 · 45m
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"international human rights & civil society organizations express our deep concern about the climate of harassment & pressure currently facing the Constitutional Court of Ecuador, in the context of the govt’s announcement of a referendum for a Constituent Assembly..." amazonwatch.org/news/2025/09...
International Organizations Call for Judicial Independence and Respect for Fundamental Rights in Ecuador | Amazon Watch
The international human rights and civil society organizations that subscribe to this statement express our deep concern about the climate of harassment and pressure currently facing the Constitutiona...
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"Conservation dividends from community-based protection are unprecedented & deployed at a tiny fraction of the financial costs of traditional protection mechanisms... this makes local land managers true 'unsung heroes' in the cacophony of theoretical conservation discourse."
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Community management of protected areas in the Amazon offers 'unprecedented' results
New research reveals "unprecedented" conservation results of community-based management of protected areas in the Amazon—as many face a future in which they may become increasingly degraded due to low...
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Join us and other activists on Saturday, Sept. 20 for the Make Billionaires Pay March to rally for clean air, clean water, and justice for all.

This is the moment for us to demand a better world for people, wildlife, and the climate ➡️ makebillionairespay.us

#MakeBillionairesPay #StopBigOil
A flyer with the background image of a large crowd of people at a march or rally. White and black text with red and green backgrounds is overlaid on the image. It reads: "Make Billionaires Pay. Sept. 20,2025. NYC and everywhere. Shut down billionaires. Fund our future. Shut down Fascists. Protect migrants and the global majority. Shut down polluters. Defend mother earth."
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Today @globalwitness.org released their annual report on attacks on environmental defenders. Figures show 80% of land defenders killed or disappeared last year were in Latin America (120), w/ Colombia accounting for ~ 1/3 of the global total (48 of 146). Read the full report - gwitness.org/4mfM5Tu
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Andrew Miller said transnational criminal networks involved in drug, gold & timber trafficking have become a major force behind threats—& often deadly attacks—against enviro. defenders. "The security situation for defenders across the Amazon is increasingly precarious.” apnews.com/article/envi...
120 land and environmental defenders killed or disappeared in Latin America last year, report finds
A report by Global Witness reveals that at least 146 land and environmental defenders have been killed or gone missing worldwide in 2024.
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BREAKING: Amazon Watch Welcomes Historic Conviction of Former Brazilian President Bolsonaro for Coup Plot - “His arrest offers a welcome reprieve for the Amazon and its peoples by weakening the chance that his destructive agenda will return to the region." amazonwatch.org/news/2025/09...
Amazon Watch Welcomes Historic Conviction of Former Brazilian President Bolsonaro for Coup Plot | Amazon Watch
"His arrest offers a welcome reprieve for the Amazon and its peoples by weakening the chance that his destructive agenda will return to the region,”
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5yrs ago, we joined the Kakataibo in their fight to stop the invasion of illicit crops in their ancestral forests. That struggle is finally leading to land titles & boundary agreements.

Demand Peruvian govt complete the titling of Kakataibo communities. #AmazonCrime
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Stand With the Kakataibo Indigenous Guards! | Amazon Watch
Support the Kakataibo Indigenous Guards as they continue to put their bodies on the line to protect their territories and people.
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