This scenario strengthens an anti-Indigenous agenda that is already operating within the National Congress and has our ...

"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 ...

Napo, Ecuador – Today, on World Amazon Rainforest Day and the International Day of the World’s Indigenous Women and Girls, the Kichwa community of Capirona, in collaboration with the Indigenous film ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...