"After many years of struggles, mobilizations, and anxieties, this outcome dictates Brazil's future of Indigenous land demarcations. We shall indeed celebrate the strength of Brazil's Indigenous peoples."
– Sonia Guajajara, Brazil’s Minister of Indigenous Peoples, at Climate Week 2023

Last week in New York City, Indigenous women emerged as a beacon of hope with a clear call to action for advocates of climate justice worldwide. While the UN Climate Ambition Summit highlighted the urgent need to phase out fossil fuels and ramp up renewable energy, Amazon Watch accompanied Amazonian Indigenous leaders who also called for a just transition: one that will recognize Indigenous land rights and End Amazon Crude!

Your donation today is an act of solidarity with Indigenous peoples, and an act of resistance to the industries and financiers driving rainforest destruction. Your gift amplifies campaigns to stop all extraction in the Amazon and secure Indigenous land rights, the most effective way to protect the rainforest, for good.

At the end of the week, Brazil’s Indigenous movement and allies, including Amazon Watch, celebrateda huge victory. Brazil’s Supreme Court ruled the legal threat “Marco Temporal” unconstitutional, defeating this attempt to open Indigenous territories to destruction. Indigenous peoples protect the vast majority of Earth’s biodiversity, and securing their land rights is the strongest solution we have to combat climate change.

Even as the industries behind Marco Temporal seek other avenues to roll back Indigenous land rights, this victory shows the strength of Indigenous organizing and the power of our collective action for the rainforest. Your gift today continues to resist these threats and moves us toward a permanently protected Amazon.

Thank you, and onward!

Leila Salazar-López
Executive Director

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