Hello everyone,

My name is Ricardo. As a member of the Amazon Watch team in Peru, I work directly with Amazonian Earth Defenders who are facing existential threats as leaders of their peoples’ struggle against illegal mining, drug trafficking, and land dispossession. It is an honor to work in close partnership with such courageous leaders in their daily fight to defend their ancestral homelands.

It's difficult to express how it feels when people you work with every day ask for help because they’ve just received threatening messages, or because they’re facing a new attempt to dispossess them of their land. I can’t tell you how much it means for Amazon Watch to be able to immediately and effectively respond with strategic advocacy, campaigning, and urgent security measures. Please consider a year-end gift in solidarity with Indigenous Earth Defenders protecting the rainforest for the sake of all life on Earth. Your gift will be doubled!

GIVE & GET MATCHED – FOR THE AMAZON AND ITS DEFENDERS:
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Thanks to anonymous donors, all gifts through December 31 will be matched up to $100,000.

I want to share my deep gratitude to everyone in our community who sustains our Amazon Defenders Fund (ADF). Your solidarity this year has been a lifeline, allowing us to stand with Indigenous Defenders and bring their voices to critical international forums. Together, we’ve placed their safety and security at the heart of the fight against transnational organized crime, an escalating threat to the Amazon and its peoples.

The ADF has helped keep us strong in this struggle and support the urgent security needs of Earth Defenders. When they take action to protect the rainforest from those seeking to destroy it, it heightens the risk they and their communities face. We have installed security cameras, coordinated security accompaniment, and funded patrols and territorial monitoring efforts. These life-saving security strategies would not have been possible without you.

Every day our commitment to Indigenous partners and to the Amazon grows stronger, and it’s all thanks to your support. Please donate today to have your gift matched and help us head into 2025 in strength and solidarity with Earth Defenders of the Amazon.

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For the Amazon,


Ricardo Pérez Bailón
Peru Communications Advisor


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