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

We are at a decisive moment. The results of the first round showed that the threats to our territories and our rights may ...

Belém, Brazil – Brazil’s presidential race is heading to a runoff after Flávio Bolsonaro surprised many observers by finishing ahead of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in the first round – 47% to 45%. The ...

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 ...

More than 2,500 people from nine Amazonian countries gathered in Puyuk, the ancestral name for the city of Puyo in the Ecuadorian Amazon for the 12th Pan-Amazonian Social Forum (XII FOSPA). Indigenous ...

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 ...

We, the Indigenous Peoples and Nations of the countries of the Amazon Basin, organized through the Coordinator of Indigenous Organizations of the Amazon Basin (COICA) and its affiliated national ...

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 ...