Last day to vote 🚨 The Amazon is one of the 🌎 greatest defenses against climate change & Indigenous peoples are its strongest defenders. Vote for Amazon Watch through the CREDO Donations program to unlock critical funding for Indigenous-led efforts to defend biodiversity & advance climate justice.

Illegal mining & pollution threaten the rivers surrounding the Kichwa community of Capirona in the Ecuadorian Amazon. We're proud to be collaborating with Capirona on a water tank installation project to help improve access to clean water while they continue defending their territory. #WaterIsLife

🌿 Today on #WorldRainforestDay, we honor the Amazon & its peoples. “Acontecer,” a new global collaboration from Playing For Change, brings together voices, including Manu Chao, to ask a powerful question: What will happen? 🎶 This song is a call to protect the Amazon & Indigenous rights.

Today, the Kichwa Indigenous People of Sarayaku return to the Inter-American Court of Human Rights to demand that the Ecuadorian State fully comply with the historic 2012 ruling in the Sarayaku vs. Ecuador case, a precedent that transformed the defense of Indigenous rights across the region. 🧵

“We deserve transparency, we need to know what’s coming next” - Seng So (@Apen4EJ) on KPFA. #SB1259, being heard in the Assembly today, will help protect Californians from footing the cost of Big Oil’s mess by requiring refineries to disclose closure and remediation costs.

You have a direct way to support Indigenous peoples protecting the Amazon by voting on CREDO. How it works: ✔️ It takes less than a minute ✔️ Your vote helps direct real funding ✔️ Every vote = more support for Indigenous-led solutions 👉 Vote now & share!

This World Environment Day, Chapra Nation President Olivia Bisa Tirko shares how Indigenous courage and global solidarity can challenge the systems driving destruction. 🎥 Watch her story and stand with Indigenous leadership. #WorldEnvironmentDay #DefendTheAmazon

Indigenous peoples are the best guardians of the Amazon & our shared future. Right now, you have a direct way to support them. Voting on CREDO is officially LIVE. Every vote = more support for Indigenous-led solutions. 👉 Vote now & share! www.credodonations.com/organization...

The fight to protect the Amazon and our planet, depends on truth. Join @Mongabay for a powerful webinar on how environmental journalism works, & how we can all better support stories that hold power accountable & uplift frontline voices. 🗓 Monday, June 1, 2026, 3 p.m. UTC 🌎 Live via Zoom, register

Chevron shareholders, Indigenous leaders, and human rights advocates confronted the company today at its AGM over ongoing environmental destruction and human rights abuses across its global operations.

New coverage from teleSUR highlights an Amazon Watch report exposing a dangerous alliance in Peru’s Amazon. 🌿 Drug trafficking and illegal gold mining now operate as one system, sharing routes, money, and control over Indigenous lands. This is a growing crisis of criminal power. Read & share.

Brazilian courts are pushing back on Canadian mining in the Amazon. Two rulings strengthened Indigenous resistance, calling out sham “consultations” & blocking agencies from defending corporate interests. From Mura territory to the Xingu, communities are asserting their right to decide. Read more:

From the Ecuadorian Amazon to Richmond, CA people are rising against decades of pollution, enviro racism, & corporate impunity. Chevron dumped billions of gallons of toxic waste, refuses to pay $9.5B judgment & continues its harm worldwide. It's time Chevron be held accountable. #AntiChevronDay

Today is Anti-Chevron Day! This weekend, at the gates of Chevron’s Richmond refinery, communities from the Amazon to CA gathered for the 13th annual #AntiChevronDay to demand justice, accountability & a fossil free future #CleanUpEcuador #EndChevron @amazonwatch.org amazonwatch.org/news/2026/05...

Criminal networks spread across the Amazon U.S. military response may increase violence, experts say

Hope after a climate conference? It’s rare. But that’s what Santa Marta delivered. For the first time, countries focused on the root of the crisis: fossil fuels, not just emissions. 🧵 What changed:

Indigenous Peoples in the Ecuadorian Amazon are saying NO to new oil rounds on their ancestral lands. The government is moving forward anyway. This is about land, rights, and our global climate. Stand in solidarity to stop oil expansion in the Amazon. ✊🌿 amazonwatch.org/take-action/...

The Tapajós River is not a shipping route. It is life. In this powerful op-ed, Alessandra Korap Munduruku, Munduruku leader, shares how her people stopped the privatization of their river & why the fight is not over. Read & share this frontline account of what’s at stake in the Amazon.

Join us for the 13th annual Anti-Chevron Day. Rise for a future beyond Chevron, one rooted in justice, regeneration, & community power. 11am Indigenous Opening Ceremony at Keller Beach 12pm Festival at Judge Carroll Park 1pm Rolling Festival March There will be live music, art, & speakers.

Indigenous organizations across the Amazon are sending a letter to the U.N. today warning that organized crime is rapidly expanding, fueling violence, environmental destruction, and undermining Indigenous governance.

Indigenous leaders at the U.N. sounded the alarm: organized crime is taking over the Amazon, and militarization is making it worse. The solution is Indigenous governance, rights, & community-led protection. A new report, Amazon Under Siege, shows what’s at stake & what works.

At the Peru–Brazil border, an abandoned checkpoint is now run by Indigenous communities, not as protest, but for survival. 🧵

Gold prices rise. So does violence in the Amazon. Indigenous leaders warn: global conflict is driving illegal mining, toxic rivers, and attacks on communities. This isn’t development, it’s destruction. 📖 Read & stand with those defending the forest ✊ amazonwatch.org/news/2026/05...

Belo Sun’s mega-mine is moving forward without Free, Prior & Informed Consent from Indigenous & riverine peoples. Hidden expansion plans & fragmented licensing weaken protections & increase risks in the Volta Grande do Xingu. The Amazon cannot afford this! #ForaBeloSun sumauma.com/en/belo-sun-...

"the global conversation has shifted from whether to phase out oil, gas and coal to how to do it, with financing emerging as one of the biggest obstacles." - @sjgrattan.bsky.social @apnews.com #EndFossilFuels apnews.com/article/clim...

Yesterday, the @stand.earth team together with @amazonwatch.org @banktrack.bsky.social @oilchange.org, Parliamentarians for Fossil Free Future & incredible frontline leaders from across Amazonia hosted a dialogue on how public & private finance could protect the Amazon from fossil fuel extraction

"In regions with few legal ways to earn a living, people are left with impossible choices. ‘It runs the entire economy.’ - Carlos Fernandez of Amazon Watch. A powerful reminder of the deeper realities behind drug policy." Read the article: www.nytimes.com/2026/04/17/w...

This #EarthDay, support Indigenous Earth defenders protecting the Amazon in the name of all of us on this planet. 🌱 Double your impact while the match lasts. For the Amazon. For its peoples. For Mother Earth. amazonwatch.org/donate

Will you be at the 37th Annual Bioneers Conference in Berkeley? 🌿 Amazon Watch will be there with partners from the Amazon — join us! 📅 Thursday, March 26 | 3–4:15pm Fossil Fuel Phase Out and a Just Transition from California to the Amazon 🎟️ Register and use code 360b20 for 20% off your ticket.

Hey! So, if I'm slow to respond (or maybe even absent) for a bit, it's bc I'm busy learnin' now that the @climatebase.bsky.social fellowship is under way! 🤓 The first week was clarifying + galvanizing. I'm so excited to meet many amazing fellows! Reflections: virtuistic.beehiiv.com/p/the-nerder...

“Ecuador should take immediate steps to suspend oil extraction in Block 43 and fully comply with the court’s ruling to respect the rights of Indigenous peoples in the Yasuní national park.” @hrw.org www.hrw.org/news/2026/03...

The Munduruku people of the Tapajós River have been fighting to protect their river and their territories for generations. Katô: Dreams of Dark Earth follows their struggle for land and clean water. Join the premier TOMORROW. 🎬 theeternalsong.org/kato/

We mourn the passing of Luis Francisco Yanza Angamarca — founder of the Amazon Defense Front, champion of justice for communities impacted by Chevron's toxic legacy in Ecuador, and our dear friend and colleague for over 40 years. May he rest in peace, power, respect, and dignity.

30 Indigenous women from 7 Amazon nationalities traveled to Ecuador's northern oil region to witness the environmental damage left by decades of extraction — preparing their communities to resist further drilling. 📹 @sjgrattan.bsky.social @apnews.com apnews.com/video/indige...

🎉 Amazon Watch turns 30 today. For three decades, one truth has guided our work: the most effective way to protect the Amazon is to stand with Indigenous peoples who have defended these forests for generations. More voices and stories to come all year. 🌿

140+ Indigenous ppls occupied Brazil's federal agency FUNAI in Altamira, demanding suspension of Belo Sun's gold mine license on the Xingu River. ✊ amazonwatch.org/news/2026/0311-amazonian-indigenous-women-occupy-federal-agency-to-demand-suspension-of-belo-sun-minings-license

📣 In Condorcanqui, 800+ Indigenous girls & boys are survivors of sexual abuse. When the state tried to shut down the prosecutors' offices handling their cases, Awajún Wampís women marched — and forced a reversal. They are still waiting for justice. ⚖️✊ youtube.com/shorts/UGniJ...

Indigenous ppls warned that Belo Monte would cause social & ecological devastation — including deformed fish in the Xingu River. Regulators pushed ahead anyway. Now the dam faces a contentious license renewal as Amazon flows continue to fall. news.mongabay.com/2026/03/fall...

Criminal networks are invading the Amazon, displacing and threatening Indigenous communities. But resistance is alive. 🌿✊ Read the full story ⬇️ amazonwatch.org/news/2026/03...

For #WomensHistoryMonth, join us at the #WECAN Women’s Momentum Assembly for a Just Fossil Fuel Phaseout to strategize and generate momentum for phasing out oil, gas, and coal, and building a just world! 📅 March 31 | Virtual & Free 🔗 tinyurl.com/woma-2026

Awajún & Wampis women in Peru's Amazon turned grief into power — compelling the state to reverse a rollback of justice services for sexual violence survivors. A powerful story for #WomenHistorysMonth. 🌿 Read the full story ⬇️ amazonwatch.org/news/2026/03...

We support our friends at @greenpeaceusa.bsky.social who will challenge this outrageous decision in ETP's SLAPP suit against them. “Speaking out against corporations that cause environmental harm should never be deemed unlawful.” - Marco Simons, Greenpeace. www.greenpeace.org/usa/greenpea...

"A victory for life.” That was the triumphal message from Indigenous campaigners in the Brazilian Amazon this week after they staved off a threat to the Tapajós River by occupying a grain terminal operated by Cargill, the biggest privately owned company in the US www.theguardian.com/environment/...

#EyeOnTheAmazon from @amazonmiller.bsky.social critiques the “Donroe Doctrine” as US policy pushes deeper into the Amazon region & beyond, urging a foreign policy rooted in justice & solidarity, not interventionism. Read more: #ForeignPolicy #Amazon #ClimateJustice amazonwatch.org/news/2026/02...

Benicia has some of the highest cancer and asthma rates in the country. This is why we need a Make Polluters Pay super fund to support communities like Benicia to transition to clean industries. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

This baseless SLAPP suit will never stand up. Greenpeace did absolutely nothing wrong. The “evidence” in court was presented to a blatantly biased jury & the trial was mishandled. Energy Transfer’s CEO Warren confessed he just wanted to hurt GP. Shameful. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

BREAKING: Brazil Court Revives Belo Sun’s Controversial Amazon Gold Mine as Indigenous Communities File Misconduct Complaint amazonwatch.org/news/2026/02...

Illegal gold mining is poisoning the Amazon. Mercury contamination is devastating Indigenous communities in Peru, threatening health, rivers, and food systems. This is the real cost of unchecked extraction. apnews.com/article/peru...

🎉🎉After more than a month blockading Cargill's grain terminal, Indigenous peoples in Brazil have won a major victory. President Lula has revoked Decree 12,600/2025 🧵👇

“Rivers are not export channels: They are a source of life, sustenance, memory, and identity..” Indigenous peoples wrote in a letter, demanding Brazil revoke Decree 12,600, which would open Amazon rivers to dredging and threaten water and fisheries. www.reuters.com/world/americ...