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"Although a step in the right direction, the changes fall far short of what is needed to prevent violations of Indigenous peoples’ rights & halt large scale destruction of critical ecosystems like the Amazon biome-accelerating toward a catastrophic tipping point." amazonwatch.org/news/2025/12...

As long as the financial system continues to back fossil fuel expansion in the Amazon, it remains complicit in environmental destruction and human rights violations. ➡️ Read the full article: https://www.thebanker.com/content/d9fefaaa-1c0e-43ac-a4ea-ca307a2f9bce

#BalanceAmbiental2025 Hablamos con científicos, ambientalistas, congresistas y comunidades locales sobre las deudas ambientales de México, Colombia, Perú, Ecuador, Chile, Argentina y Bolivia y el panorama es alarmante. es.mongabay.com/2025/12/bala...

From Self-Government to Climate Leadership: The Wampis Nation’s Story #AmazonCrime #EyeOnTheAmazon amazonwatch.org/news/2025/12...

Federico Borman, member of an Indigenous community impacted by oil operations, said his aunts, uncles, cousins, friends and father “have died or are dying of cancer tied to oil contamination.” “To think their own country—my country—has to pay the company that began it all makes me sick,” he added.

Colombia is the deadliest country in the world for environmental defenders, yet activists are still working to protect their ecosystems and communities. @sjgrattan.bsky.social reports on how ADISPA advocates in the Amazon Pearl reserve confront those risks: apnews.com/article/colo...

Take ACTION: Tell President Noboa to reject this unjust award and stand with the people of Ecuador, not Chevron - the corporation that poisoned them! #CleanUpEcuador amazonwatch.org/take-action/...

Ecuador MUST NOT pay corporate criminal Chevron a single dime. Chevron ADMITTED to polluting the Amazon and twisted the international arbitration system with false evidence and bribed witnessed to make the very people it poisoned pay for the "privilege". Completely disgusting! #EndChevron

Indigenous women leaders are key defenders of their territories, biodiversity and ancestral knowledge. Three women from Peru, Mexico and Colombia share how they restore ecosystems, care for communities and protect Amazonian life for future generations.

Jani Silva is a renowned environmental activist in Colombia’s Amazon, but she has been unable to live in her house for nearly a decade.

🌎 Más de 200 guardias de 15 pueblos indígenas de Colombia, Ecuador y Perú cruzaron bosques y ríos hasta la comunidad a’i cofán de Sinangoe. Su misión: fortalecerse frente al extractivismo y proteger sus territorios ancestrales. Estuvimos en el encuentro ⬇️ es.mongabay.com/2025/12/guar...

Faces of Amazon Resistance: See this @apnews.com profile of environmental defender Jani Silva and other social leaders who confront oil companies and illegal armed groups that issue threats of violence to repress legitimate protest. apnews.com/article/colo...

From Putumayo, I reported on one of Colombia’s most threatened environmental defenders: Jani Silva. She’s spent years protecting the Amazon despite constant threats, surveillance & security risks. Our new @apnews.com story shows what that reality looks like. apnews.com/article/colo...

In the Colombian Amazon, criminal groups like the Border Commandos are violently imposing themselves on communities. Violations include: * Selective killings of critics; * Prohibitions on protests vs. oil companies; and * Recruitment of minors Via @hrw.org www.hrw.org/news/2025/12....

En la Amazonía Colombiana, los Comandos de la Frontera y otros grupos criminales se están imponiendo a la fuerza. Violacions incluyen: * Asesinatos selectivos * Prohibición de protestas contra petroleros * Reclutamiento forzado de jóvenes @hrwespanol.bsky.social www.hrw.org/es/news/2025...

This Is What True Climate Leadership Looks Like Indigenous women and the grassroots Amazonian movement carried #COP30 on their shoulders. Amazon Watch at COP. #EyeOnTheAmazon amazonwatch.org/news/2025/12...

"No conflict for oil, no armed intervention, no war with Venezuela!" said Congressman Jim McGovern, who is leading the new war powers resolution with Reps. Joaquin Castro and Thomas Massie.

🇨🇴 El #BalanceAmbiental2025 de #Colombia es alarmante. Nuevamente, el país fue el más letal del mundo para los defensores ambientales. Mientras tanto, la deforestación, la presencia de grupos armados y sus economías ilegales no dan tregua. ⬇️ es.mongabay.com/2025/12/bala...

The climate crisis won’t wait and neither will we. With this team, we’ll meet it head-on.

This absurd pardon shows the murderous boat bombings were never about stopping drugs

"a single person of this demographic may have committed a crime, therefore we must punish the entire demographic" is a policy response you may recognize from fascist governments dedicated to ethnic cleansing elsewhere.

At COP30, powerful petrostates and large polluting nations succeeded in blocking inclusion of a roadmap away from fossil fuels in the summit’s concluding agreement.

“I’m Not Going to Give Up”: Leonard Peltier on Indigenous Rights, His Half-Century in Prison & Coming Home https://www.democracynow.org/2025/11/27/i_m_not_going_to_give

After the close of a disappointing U.N. climate summit in Brazil, "I'm extremely angry," says @brandoncwu.bsky.social. "We need a fossil fuel phase-out. We need it as fast as possible. It has to start in the Global North." https://www.democracynow.org/2025/11/24/cop30_final_agreement_fossil_fuels

Despite clear—and powerful—calls from civil society for the #COP30 summit to take bolder steps on climate change and to uphold human rights, the summit failed to make any real progress on the two issues key to stabilising greenhouse gas concentrations: fossil fuels + deforestation.

🗣️ En la #COP30, #Colombia se consolidó como una de las voces más firmes a favor de la eliminación progresiva de los combustibles fósiles. La ministra Irene Vélez defendió la transición y lideró la Declaración de Belém, respaldada por 35 países. ⬇️ es.mongabay.com/2025/11/iren...

My latest: #COP30, global climate politics, and what happens next — for @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

"People that are most affected [by] the climate crisis are the people that did nothing to [contribute] this crisis. So, how can we act in terms to protect their lives and ensure that the rich polluters will pay for that?"

It is very hard to overstate the evil of the fossil fuel industry. When people finally do figure it out, it may be too late to undo the damage.

🚨 BIG NEWS from #COP30:🇨🇴Colombia and 🇳🇱the Netherlands will co-host the 1st International Conference on the Just Transition Away from Fossil Fuels in Santa Marta, Colombia – April 28–29, 2026.

At #COP30 climate talks in Brazil, Indigenous land defenders from the Amazon region are demanding greater control over their territories. "We are the ones that are saying what the forest is demanding. We are the ones that are saying what the river is asking for," says Alessandra Korap Munduruku.

“We are the ones that are saying what the forest is demanding. We are the ones that are saying what the river is asking for. We are going through a lot of violence in our territories," says Alessandra Korap Munduruku, an Indigenous leader from the Amazon.

More than 80 countries at #Cop30 join call for roadmap to fossil fuel phase-out. More than 80 countries at Cop30 join call for roadmap to fossil fuel phase-out www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Novo levantamento da Coiab e da Coica mostra que a expansão do petróleo, do gás e da mineração na bacia amazônica já afeta uma área indígena equivalente a todo o estado do Maranhão, em nove países da região. reporterbrasil.org.br/2025/11/amaz...

As the world comes together to tackle the climate crisis at #COP30 in Brazil, its Congress is considering proposals that would exacerbate it. Those measures could severely impact the Amazon, which is critical for global climate.

Colombia will no longer approve new oil or large-scale mining projects in its Amazon biome, which covers 42% of the nation’s territory. Acting Environment Minister Irene Vélez Torres said the entire Colombian Amazon will be made a reserve for renewable natural resources.

Brazil’s Contradictory Climate Policies: Lula Gov’t Reduces Deforestation, Boosts Oil & Gas Production

Ecuador’s Voters Protect Rights of Nature, Reject Proposal to Rewrite Constitution Ecuadorians handed their Trump-allied president a resounding defeat, choosing to maintain their “ecological constitution” & rejecting an attempt to allow foreign military bases insideclimatenews.org/news/1711202...

Indigenous communities in the Amazon are demanding protection of their rights at the U.N. Climate Change Conference.

Democracy Now! was on the streets in Belém, Brazil at the first major climate protest at a United Nations climate conference since 2021.

This Transgender Awareness Week, we celebrate the resilience, courage, and beauty of the trans community. Your lives matter, your stories matter, and your right to thrive and exist authentically is non-negotiable. We stand with you today and every day🏳️‍⚧️

Thousands of people took to the streets of Belém, Brazil, demanding urgent climate action at #COP30 negotiations.

200 boats. 5,000 people. Indigenous, quilombola, and riverine leaders filled the waters of Belém this week to say: NO to Ferrogrão. No more destruction. Their message to #COP30: Implementation without justice for Indigenous & frontline communities isn’t climate action. https://bit.ly/4pbqihP

Thousands of people marched through the streets of Brazil's Belem on Saturday to press for action from negotiators holding tough talks at the UN's COP30 climate conference in the Amazonian city ➡️ u.afp.com/Sn7d

Queues formed outside the venue as Indigenous people staged a peaceful protest at the entrance, before the COP30 Presidency and CEO came out to hear their concerns www.climatechangenews.com/2025/11/14/c...

Fear of 'Corporate Capture' at COP30 as Fossil Fuel Lobbyists Have 'Largest Ever Attendance Share'

LIVE: Indigenous activists block entrance to COP30 www.youtube.com/live/OOuqX-F...