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March 31, 2025 at 2:14 PM

Last chance to vote for Amazon Watch!

There's still time to help direct up to $30,000 to support Indigenous rights and solutions for the Amazon rainforest with just a few clicks! Amazon Watch is one of CREDO Mobile’s March grantees, which means voters like you get to decide how their generous funds will be donated at the end of the m…

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March 27, 2025 at 5:52 PM

🙋🏽‍♀️ Militant mothers of the movement

Indigenous women are at the forefront of the struggle to protect ancestral territories and our global climate. Along the Tapajós River in the Brazilian Amazon, Maria Leusa Munduruku has emerged as a powerful defender against dams, mining, illegal logging, and the Ferrogrão mega-railway. A mother …

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March 26, 2025 at 4:28 PM

Life-givers and leaders 🌱 Stand with Indigenous women

"Our role today is to take the lead, mainly to fight for the defense of our rights, our territory, and for the lives of our children." – Maria Leusa Munduruku --- Maria Leusa Munduruku is a mother, a law student, and a powerful leader from the Munduruku people of the Brazilian Amazon. Maria co…

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March 20, 2025 at 3:59 PM

🌈 Ingrid Mojanajinsoy's vision for her people

For generations, the Inga people of Putumayo, Colombia have protected their territory from pollution at the hands of extractive industries. Inga women play a central role in this work. They also cultivate chagras, farming systems – full of fruit trees, medicinal and artisanal plants, and tubers – th…

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March 17, 2025 at 5:07 PM

Raúl Grijalva: Rest in Power

Since the passing of U.S. Representative Raúl Grijalva of Arizona on March 13, tributes have poured in from fellow members of Congress, advocacy organizations, and individuals whose lives he touched through his tireless work for human rights, racial justice, Native American rights, and environmental…

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March 14, 2025 at 8:17 PM

🎥 Meet Women Defenders of the Colombian Amazon

To celebrate International Women’s Month, we spoke with Ingrid Mojanajinsoy, an Indigenous leader from the Colombian Amazon, about the crucial role women play in her community’s efforts to protect this vital ecosystem. Ingrid is the president of an organization established to advocate for the rig…

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March 11, 2025 at 5:26 PM

🤲🏽 Olivia Bisa's leadership uplifts us all

"To fight against all those who are threatening our territory, our forests, our rivers, our culture, our identity, we can only do so through unity. Unity strengthens all types of resistance. That is why women's opinions are now highly considered in all meetings." – Olivia Bisa Tirko --- Olivia…

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March 8, 2025 at 4:21 PM

Olivia Bisa Tirko's fight for land and culture

This International Women’s Month, we honor the Indigenous women championing their people, culture, and land. Throughout the Amazon, Indigenous women are not only protectors of the land but also keepers of ancestral knowledge, ensuring the survival of their culture, their people, and the Amazon. …

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March 4, 2025 at 9:03 PM

John: Your vote = a donation to Amazon Watch!

Right now, you can help direct up to $30,000 to support Indigenous rights and solutions for the Amazon rainforest, and it only takes a minute! Amazon Watch is one of CREDO Mobile’s March grantees, which means voters like you get to decide how their generous funds will be donated at the end of the…

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  Keala at Amazon Watch · [email protected]

February 27, 2025 at 9:23 PM

Rivers of resistance ✊🏿✊🏾 Black and Indigenous solidarity in Brazil

The Tapajós River is one of the largest in the world. Flowing through the heart of the Brazilian Amazon and spanning a staggering 190,000 square miles, it is teeming with immense biodiversity and essential to the health of the rainforest. Since time immemorial, the Tapajós River Basin has been st…

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February 25, 2025 at 10:32 PM

Big oil is trying to silence Standing Rock

From Richmond to Ecuador, powerful corporations are polluting our communities and threatening our collective future with impunity. When people organize and fight back, they use their endless resources to attack communities with Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation (SLAPPs) to drain their …

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February 20, 2025 at 9:05 PM

👋 LAST CHANCE: You gotta click if you want to keep getting our emails!

You are a valued member of the Amazon Watch community and we appreciate your support for our work to protect the Amazon rainforest and advance the rights of Indigenous peoples. Maybe you don't use this email account anymore? Or you don't really use email at all? As far as we can tell, you haven't…

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February 18, 2025 at 9:57 PM

💰 Money and power can buy blood gold in the Amazon

Everywhere you look, political corruption and corporate greed are creating severe threats. Along the Xingu River in the Brazilian Amazon, Belo Sun’s long-stalled mega-mine is dangerously close to breaking ground, and the consequences could be catastrophic for our global climate. A recent cash inf…

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February 13, 2025 at 9:17 PM

A runoff election in Ecuador may be decisive for the Amazon

On February 9, Ecuador held presidential elections against the backdrop of a political, economic, security, and social crisis. Ecuadorians will head back to the polls on April 13 for a runoff that could prove decisive for the health of the Ecuadorian Amazon. Both of the leading candidates have en…

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February 11, 2025 at 6:40 PM

Get off the sidelines ✊🏽 Join the front lines

The Amazon is in crisis. And now, with the Trump administration freezing critical funding, Indigenous peoples on the front lines of this fight are being left without the resources they need to defend their lands and our planet. The situation is growing more urgent by the day. This is our moment t…

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February 6, 2025 at 8:17 PM

🛑 Stop Trump's racist mass deportations!

President Trump's anti-immigrant raids are devastating communities across the United States and exacerbating police and vigilante violence. No human being is illegal! We will always stand in solidarity with our immigrant friends, families, and neighbors and demand dignity, safety, and justice for…

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February 5, 2025 at 12:25 AM

🔥 The links between the LA fires and the Amazon rainforest

The catastrophic fires ravaging Los Angeles have become the most destructive in the state’s history, decimating native ecosystems, killing at least 29 people, destroying more than 12,000 structures and displacing over 150,000 people. As someone born and raised in southern California, I could have…

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  Andrew at Amazon Watch · [email protected]

January 30, 2025 at 6:02 PM

⚠️ Bracing ourselves for the fight ahead

The Amazon rainforest continues to reel from a devastating year, having suffered the worst fires in decades and a historic drought. With the onslaught of executive orders coming out of the Trump administration, many are questioning if his policies will push the Amazon rainforest past its ecological …

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January 28, 2025 at 6:02 PM

Tell big banks to divest from fossil fuels!

The Amazon rainforest – vital for our planet’s climate and biodiversity – is under constant threat. Major U.S. banks, including Citigroup, Bank of America, and Goldman Sachs, are fueling this destruction by investing hundreds of billions in the fossil fuel industry. Their reckless actions are dri…

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January 27, 2025 at 6:36 PM

ACT NOW: Keep getting news about the Amazon, Indigenous rights, and our climate!

Thank you for being a part of the Amazon Watch community and supporting our work to protect the Amazon rainforest and advance the rights of Indigenous peoples. As far as we can tell, you haven't opened anything that we've sent you in a very long time. Could it be that you no longer use this email…

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January 24, 2025 at 6:05 PM

✊🏽 We will not back down

We Will Not Back Down Affirming Our Commitment to Global Climate Justice ------ Trump's second administration is rapidly escalating existential threats to our climate, our human rights, and the future of our global climate justice movement. Amazon Watch will remain steadfast in our solidarity…

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January 23, 2025 at 6:07 PM

🐒🌴 A global climate victory is at risk in Ecuador 🐆🦜🪲

At the outset of 2025, one of the world's most significant climate victories hangs in the balance. Over a year and a half ago, the people of Ecuador overwhelmingly voted to keep one of its largest oil reserves in the ground. The historic first will keep millions of barrels of crude oil beneath Ya…

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January 21, 2025 at 11:40 PM

✊🏽 In the face of crisis, a moment to celebrate Leonard Peltier's freedom

“We shall overcome because the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice." – Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. ------ Yesterday, we learned the monumental news that Leonard Peltier, member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa and the longest-serving Native political prisoner …

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January 9, 2025 at 6:01 PM

Solidarity ✊🏽 and resistance ❤️‍🔥 in the Amazon Pearl

Last November, we traveled to Colombia to celebrate the 24th anniversary of the Amazon Pearl, a sustainable development area collectively managed by hundreds of campesino families. Culminating a year of solidarity and accompaniment of at-risk leaders from the region, we rejoiced in an all-night cele…

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January 7, 2025 at 9:07 PM

✊🏽 Our collective power grounds us ❣️

Through bold campaigns, strategic advocacy, and unwavering solidarity with our Indigenous and local community partners, we achieved groundbreaking victories in 2024. As we embrace the formidable challenges ahead in 2025, we ground ourselves in the power of our collective action. Together, we help…

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January 2, 2025 at 4:17 PM

🌳 Reforesting hearts and minds in the new year

Dear Friends of the Amazon, Happy New Year! I hope you’ve had time to rest and connect with loved ones as we move into 2025. Thanks to your incredible support, we met our end-of-year fundraising goal and are ready to embark on a pivotal year of action. Together, we’ll defend Indigenous rights,…

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January 1, 2025 at 1:00 AM

Make your tax-deductible donation before midnight to protect the Amazon!

There are a few hours left before the new year to make a tax-deductible gift for the Amazon, Indigenous rights, and climate justice! All gifts will be matched up to $100,000 until midnight, and we’re almost to our goal. MATCH MY TAX-DEDUCTIBLE GIFT FOR THE AMAZON: [link removed] Our collectiv…

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December 31, 2024 at 3:00 PM

💕 Last chance to have your gift doubled for the Amazon!

As we close out 2024, we know that collective movements for our planet and communities will be our greatest strength and hope on the path ahead. Indigenous peoples show us that our unified movement can prevail against those who see only short-term “profit” in the Amazon’s rainforests, rivers, and th…

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December 26, 2024 at 3:00 PM

From my heart to yours 💚 A call to protect the Amazon

As a member of the board of directors and longtime partner of Amazon Watch, I am writing to ask you to join us in our vital work to protect Mother Earth. For over 20 years, Amazon Watch has been a trusted ally to my people, the Kichwa community of Sarayaku, Ecuador, as well as to many other Indig…

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December 24, 2024 at 3:00 PM

This life-saving work wouldn't happen without you

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 clo…

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December 19, 2024 at 9:03 PM

Fighting for survival against corruption and crime in the Amazon

The Kakataibo people have stewarded the rich tapestry of biodiversity of the Peruvian Amazon for generations. Yet, the Kakataibo are struggling for their survival as a people. A new, multimedia report uncovers a complex web of rampant illegal logging, coca plantations, and mineral concessions tha…

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December 17, 2024 at 9:21 PM

Hope shines for the Amazon 🌱 + your gift doubled!

Amid the fires, hope shines in the Amazon. The Munduruku people are celebrating a historic victory: the declaration of Sawré Muybu Indigenous Territory! This is a huge milestone in their decades-long fight to secure land rights and protect the rainforests that sustain life around the planet. A…

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December 14, 2024 at 4:17 PM

✊ TAKE ACTION: Tell the Senate to reject the "Nonprofit Killer" bill!

H.R. 9495 has been dubbed the “Nonprofit Killer” because it would give the Treasury Secretary unchecked power to revoke any U.S. nonprofit’s tax-exempt status by merely claiming – with no evidence or due process – that the organization is linked to terrorism. URGE YOUR SENATORS TO OPPOSE THIS DAN…

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December 12, 2024 at 9:08 PM

📸 PHOTOS: Indigenous communities celebrate another landmark win!

In a year of unprecedented challenges, a bright light emerged when Sawré Muybu – an embattled territory of the Munduruku people in the Brazilian Amazon – advanced to the final stage of its long demarcation process. To commemorate this momentous victory, the village hosted a major celebration, gat…

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December 10, 2024 at 4:33 PM

🎉 From victory to action: protect the Amazon today!

We did it! A historic win for the Amazon! We are celebrating a groundbreaking win in the fight to protect the Brazilian Amazon and our Mining Out of the Amazon campaign. Thanks to the unwavering efforts of Indigenous and local communities and supporters like you, last week, Belo Sun's destructive…

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December 5, 2024 at 10:54 PM

✊🏽 Major victory against mega-mine in the 💚 of the Brazilian Amazon!

In the heart of the Brazilian Amazon, Indigenous and riverine communities are celebrating a landmark victory. Last week, a federal court voided Belo Sun’s contract granting the Canadian company land rights in the region, in a major setback to its plans to carve Brazil’s largest open-pit gold mine…

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December 4, 2024 at 1:12 AM

So close to our goal 🌳 Get matched for the Amazon!

As the sun sets on this day of generosity, we want to thank you for being at the heart of our work. Every day, together, we defend the Amazon, its biodiversity, and its climate resilience. Thank you for choosing hope by supporting Indigenous visions and solutions that – no matter where political tid…

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December 3, 2024 at 6:39 PM

Major win for the Amazon! 🌱🌱 Double your impact!

As the new U.S. administration threatens to derail global efforts to combat climate change, the Amazon and its Indigenous stewards face mounting dangers, from oil drilling and mining to worsening climate events. This #GivingTuesday, you have the power to support Indigenous peoples who have defended …

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November 28, 2024 at 4:19 PM

Our futures are intertwined: Solidarity with Indigenous movements worldwide ✊🏽🌎

While for some today is a day of gratitude, for Native communities throughout Turtle Island, today is a National Day of Mourning. Since time immemorial, Indigenous peoples have stewarded and lived in deep reciprocity with the land. Enduring hundreds of years of ongoing colonization, land dispossessi…

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November 26, 2024 at 6:32 PM

🫶 What is more generous than the Amazon?

We're one week from #GivingTuesday! 🥳 Celebrate generosity by supporting a healthy, Indigenous-led future for the Amazon. Your gift will be matched up to $50,000! MATCH MY #GIVINGTUESDAY GIFT: [link removed] *** Anonymous donors are matching all gifts up to $50,000 through December 3! *** …

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November 21, 2024 at 8:56 PM

🚧 VIDEO: The battle to save the Tapajós River from the Ferrogrão mega-railway

“They are preventing us from fishing and killing the Tapajós River to export soybeans to China and Europe. The railway will heighten these impacts, and we have yet to even be consulted.” ------ As the sun rose over the vast Tapajós River in Brazil, 400 of us staged a powerful direct action. Al…

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November 19, 2024 at 7:48 PM

💕 Double your impact to save the Amazon's flying rivers!

Where the Amazon’s rainforests are healthy, life thrives. Abundant rainfall and “flying rivers” sustain ecosystems across South America. But right now, the Amazon and its communities face a historic drought and wildfires, driven by destructive human activities. Indigenous peoples are protecting t…

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November 14, 2024 at 9:56 PM

🌱 Uplifting Indigenous solutions at COP16 in Colombia!

The colorful streets of Cali, Colombia were enlivened by Indigenous and frontline communities from across the globe converging at COP16, a key United Nations meeting on biological diversity. They united to confront the corporate interests and extractivist economies that are driving both catastrop…

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November 12, 2024 at 7:08 PM

🌎 Our planet's future depends on our actions today

This week has affirmed what Indigenous wisdom has shown us since time immemorial – our futures are interdependent and intertwined. As we hold each other in our grief, we remain steadfast in our commitment to one another and the world we know is possible. In that spirit, from now until #GivingTues…

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November 7, 2024 at 10:26 PM

✊🏽 A beacon of hope: Powerful new ally emerges for a fossil-free Amazon

A powerful, new chorus of voices emerged in the global struggle to protect the Amazon and our climate as world leaders and civil society came together to address global threats to biodiversity at COP16. The Amazon and Indigenous communities who sustain and protect it will face increased violence …

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November 6, 2024 at 10:20 PM

Trump's fascism threatens to decimate climate justice – Join the fight!

Like many of you, we woke up today with profound feelings of dread and grief for the rights of women, immigrants, the LGBTQ+ community, and frontline communities in the U.S. who will face heightened threats and attacks under Project 2025. We reject and will resist any assaults on communities here an…

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November 2, 2024 at 5:06 PM

✊🏽 TAKE ACTION: Leonard Peltier must be free!

Native activists in the U.S. and Earth Defenders around the world face violence, threats, and criminalization for protecting our planet. In solidarity, we support the call to the release of Native American Earth Defender Leonard Peltier. [link removed] In 1973, Peltier and other activists from…

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October 31, 2024 at 10:08 PM

✊🏽 "A luta continua!"

“We know that if the constitution changes, it will only facilitate more invasions of our territories. We have already lived long enough with these invasions!" ------ As world leaders and civil society meet in Cali, Colombia to address global threats to biodiversity at COP16, Indigenous peoples…

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October 24, 2024 at 8:01 PM

🔥 Indigenous leaders warn: "Flames will reach you, too"

“Those flames will reach you, too.” Patricia Gualinga, Kichwa of Sarayaku, recently reminded the world that the current fires in the Amazon – the worst in 20 years – demand our urgent attention. As the heart of our planet burns, Indigenous peoples are on the front lines putting out the fires and …

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October 22, 2024 at 7:42 PM

🐒 "We are protecting the Amazon for all of us"

As transnational criminal economies increasingly threaten the Amazon rainforest, Indigenous rights, and our global climate, Peruvian Indigenous leaders traveled to Vienna to make one thing clear: the world must act now ------ As Peruvian Indigenous leader Miguel Guimaraes finishes his historic…

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