As we’ve shared with you, an Indigenous uprising has been unfolding in Ecuador and among their main demands has been an end to Amazon crude.

Why has Citigroup, one of the world’s leading banks, invested $43.8 billion in companies with oil and gas operations in the Amazon, when Indigenous leaders have repeatedly called on banks to stop financing rainforest destruction? As we’ve shared with you, an Indigenous uprising has been unfolding in Ecuador and among their main demands has been an end to Amazon crude.

We’re giving you a sneak peak at a new video made in partnership with Stand.earth, Rainforest Action Network, and the Exit Amazon Oil and Gas campaign, calling on Citi and other enormous banks to adopt a formal “exclusion” policy — a pledge to never again finance projects that destroy the Amazon.

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Last year, Ecuador’s President Guillermo Lasso vowed to double oil production in the Ecuadorian Amazon, starting with Yasuní National Park, home to Indigenous peoples, including communities in voluntary isolation. This potential destruction is one of the reasons behind the recent protests. Ecuador usually averages two oil spills per week.

As Waorani leader Nemo Guiquita told NBC News last year: “These oil companies are destroying our land, and they leave only contamination, sickness, and death.”

Watch and share this new video, and help us call for big banks to adopt formal exclusion policies toward oil and gas drilling in the Amazon!


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