Across the Amazon, Indigenous Earth Defenders face severe, often deadly violence for resisting extractive industries in their territories. They are protecting the rainforest and our climate in areas with some of the highest rates of repression against environmental defenders.

We must defend the defenders from extractive industry-related violence. Will you protect Earth Defenders' rights with a donation today?

100% of your donation goes directly to our program work.

Oil, gas, and mining are pushing the Amazon to its ecological tipping point, and they also bring great risk to Amazonian leaders and communities. In January, Brazilian federal police opened an investigation into possible genocide linked to illegal mining and the immense harm it has brought to the Yanomami people's territory.

Through Amazon Watch’s Amazon Defenders Fund, we accompany Earth Defenders every step of the way. We demand justice for defenders and their families, but we also accompany our partners long before violence occurs, to support their ecological and political visions and prevent harm against Indigenous peoples and their lands.

Will you join us in defending Amazonian Earth Defenders? Your solidarity directly supports Indigenous peoples protecting the rainforest and our climate.

Thank you! Your support makes all the difference.

For the Amazon,

Leila Salazar-López
Executive Director

 
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