Josefina Tunki is the first woman president of Pueblo Shuar Arutam, an organization representing some 12,000 people in 47 communities across the Ecuadorian and Peruvian Amazon who are resisting mining in their territories.

Thanks in part to her advocacy, the UN recently adopted a groundbreaking set of recommendations to hold Chinese companies operating in the Amazon accountable. Josefina’s work will pave the way for further oversight of the corporations and governments most complicit in rainforest destruction.

Will you make a donation today to grow Indigenous women’s leadership and support their safety and well-being? Your gift will be matched by generous donors!

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Please leave a note of gratitude with your online donation, and we will send it directly to Josefina.

When you support Indigenous leaders like Josefina, you send a powerful message: Women Defenders of the Amazon have a global community dedicated to their security and visions for the Amazon. We will not back down — we will continue to amplify their voices and solutions.

Josefina has been defending her territory from mining since she was a child, facing serious threats and persecution for her resistance. But Josefina and the Shuar Arutam people are not backing down.

Your donation today, which will be matched, is a direct act of solidarity with Indigenous Women Defenders of the Amazon. Thank you for standing with Amazonian Earth Defenders for their rights and the rights of nature!

For the Amazon,

Leila Salazar-López
Executive Director