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

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 ...

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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 ...

Vila Tauiry, Pará, Brazil – Yesterday, in a symbolic ceremony, Amazonian riverine peoples, including fisherfolk, babassu nut breakers, and family farmers, declared the Pedral do Lourenção (Lourenção ...

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 ...

This month, Amazon Watch and the Autonomous Territorial Government of the Chapra Nation (GTANCH) fulfilled a dream years in the making. Working alongside GTANCH president Olivia Bisa, we brought solar ...