January 5, 2023 – In one of the first administrative measures of his administration, President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva repealed a series of executive orders dismantling human rights and socio-environmental policies instituted by his predecessor, Jair Bolsonaro. And prior to his January 1st inauguration, Lula nominated Marina Silva to lead Brazil’s Ministry of Environment […]
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COP15: Canadian Mining Corp Belo Sun Stock Takes Major Hit Before Finance Day at U.N. Biodiversity Summit
December 13, 2022 – As the United Nations’ 15th summit on biodiversity in Montreal, Québec enters its last week of negotiations for global targets, Canadian mining company Belo Sun has once again demonstrated the perils of investing in the destruction of the Amazon, as its share prices have dropped precipitously following protests and advocacy from […]
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Indigenous Peoples File Lawsuit Against Ecuador’s President To Halt New Extractive Conquest in the Amazon
Quito, Ecuador – On October 18th, 2021, hundreds of Indigenous elders, youth, and leaders arrived in the capital city of Quito, having journeyed from their communities deep in the Amazon rainforest, to file the first in a series of lawsuits against Ecuador’s President, Guillermo Lasso, a right-wing former banker. The lawsuits filed at Ecuador’s highest […]
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Amazon Fires Inspire Global Day of Action to Hold Politicians and Corporations Accountable
OAKLAND, CA, Sept. 10, 2019 – Following dozens of demonstrations across five continents advocating for the protection and preservation of the Amazon rainforest and its indigenous peoples, Amazon Watch today released a video with highlights from the Global Day of Action for the Amazon that took place on September 5th, and launched a challenge to the […]
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Forest Offsets Not a Solution to Brazil’s Fires, Says Amazon Watch
Oakland, CA, Aug. 29, 2019 – Amazon Watch today released the following statement condemning proposed guidelines that would allow polluters in California to supposedly “offset” their pollution under the guise of preserving trees in tropical forests, which proponents are now claiming as a solution to forest fires in the Brazilian Amazon. In reality, a decade’s […]
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Leila Salazar-López: Bolsonaro Wants to Plunder the Amazon. Don’t Let Him.
Jan. 30, 2019 – The rise of President Jair Bolsonaro of Brazil has put the environment and human rights in peril. His promises to open the Amazon for business could result in huge deforestation and the release of vast greenhouse-gas emissions. His threats to slash fundamental environmental and indigenous rights standards that help keep the […]
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Christian Poirier: Inauguration of right-wing zealot Jair Bolsonaro to Brazil’s presidency ushers in a dangerous era
Dec. 31, 2018 – Tomorrow Jair Bolsonaro will be inaugurated as president of Brazil. This extreme right-wing politician, and his scandal-ridden Cabinet, have close ties to Brazilian agribusiness and extractive industry, and Mr. Bolsonaro has pledged to “open the Amazon for business.” Brazil’s National Indigenous Movement is mounting resistance to the Bolsonaro administration by working […]
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Indigenous Leaders Deliver Letter to China to Abandon Oil Drilling in Their Territory as Ecuador Faces U.N. Review
NEW YORK, NY, May 1, 2017 – Indigenous leaders Manari and Gloria Ushigua from the Sápara nation of the Ecuadorian Amazon delivered a letter this morning addressed to the Permanent Mission of the People’s Republic of China before the United Nations in New York, in which they call on its state-run oil companies to abandon […]