Today, August 20, 2026, we come together in the city of Puyuk to denounce three years of non-compliance with the popular consultation to leave oil in the ground. The Yasuní mandate calls the peoples of the Pan-Amazon together at this XII FOSPA.
“For us Indigenous Peoples, security is not about weapons. It is about taking care of our territories."
El País | We know another kind of wealth. It is in our rivers, in the animals and plants, in the knowledge passed down by our elders, and in the relationships that allow the world as we know it to continue to exist.
On the Jatunyaku River, community representatives unfurled two banners bearing the messages that have echoed for years: "Water is life” and "Love the Amazon."
We, the Indigenous Peoples and Nations, preexist the creation of States. Since ancestral times we have inhabited, governed, and protected our territories, exercising our own forms of government, knowledge, and life. Our collective, territorial, and self-determination rights do not originate from State recognition, but from our existence as Peoples.
In this video, Paty Gualinga looks back on one unforgettable chapter in Sarayaku and Amazon Watch's shared history.
El País | We are facing a scenario where extractive activities and illicit economies converge with highly adaptive armed actors and with states that are weak, absent, corrupt, or violent against their own populations. The recipe is dangerous.
Indigenous-led renewable energy solutions can strengthen self-determination, protect forests, and equip communities to defend their territories and build resilient futures.
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 volatile regions of the Amazon.
This report documents how dramatically the region's landscape has shifted in just one year: escalating U.S. military intervention, incoming hardline governments across all three countries, and a "war on narco-terrorism."
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.
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 Amazon, Indigenous peoples, and the planet.
Shareholders, Indigenous leaders, human rights defenders, and environmental justice advocates converged on Chevron's Annual General Meeting today.
For the 13th year running, Anti-Chevron Day brought frontline leaders from across the globe to the shadow of Chevron's Richmond refinery.
Community organizations, environmental justice advocates, and international frontline leaders will gather across the Bay Area next week for the 13th annual Anti-Chevron Day, May 13-17, 2026, culminating in a major public festival and march in Richmond.
Traveling back to Bogotá from the First Conference on Transitioning Away from Fossil Fuels in Santa Marta, Colombia, I struggled to name a feeling I had never experienced after a climate conference: hope!
Associated Press | “In light of this situation, it is essential that responses to organized crime and illicit economies do not translate into new processes of militarization, criminalization, or the subordination of Indigenous governance systems.”
Indigenous leaders who gathered at the U.N. Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues are demanding a decisive shift away from failed militarized responses toward rights-based approaches that center Indigenous territorial governance, autonomy, and community-led security systems in efforts to confront organized crime.
The First Conference on Transitioning Away From Fossil Fuels marks a turning point in climate diplomacy. It is the first time countries will explicitly address the root cause of the climate crisis: the unmitigated proliferation of fossil fuels.
In the context of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, Amazon Watch, together with allied organizations, presents the first report to analyze how illicit economies and repressive government responses threaten the rights, territories, and physical and cultural survival of Indigenous peoples.
An urgent message is traveling from the Amazon to the United Nations. This week, Amazon Watch will accompany a delegation of Indigenous leaders from Peru and Ecuador to New York for the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNPFII).
Este informe llama a una estrategia regional centrada en la protección ambiental, el fortalecimiento institucional del Estado y la gobernanza comunitaria.
This report calls for a regional strategy centered on environmental protection, state-building, and community governance.
A picture is worth a thousand tears. That was what I felt traveling to Ecuadorian Amazon with Amazon Watch on a woman donors delegation last month where we traveled from the Andes to the Amazon and deep into the remote Kichwa community of Sarayaku.
Indigenous peoples have demanded for decades that governments come together and commit to getting off fossil fuels. The First Conference on Transitioning Away from Fossil Fuels, taking place later this month in Santa Marta, Colombia, is a manifestation of that demand.
The Administration designated a dozen Latin American criminal cartels as terrorist organizations and launched Operation Southern Spear in September.
On International Women's Day, Indigenous women from across the Ecuadorian Amazon traveled by foot, car, and canoe to Puyo with a single, unified demand: No more oil in the Amazon.
Associated Press | “We want to live in a healthy environment and in harmony with the forest."
The Amazon has reached an ecological tipping point. What happens in 2026 will help determine whether climate justice remains possible or becomes an empty slogan.
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