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    Defending the Amazon Against Illegal Economies

    The Wampís Nation’s fight to defend their territory against an invasion of illegal mining

    The Wampís’ fight is not just local, it’s global. Defending the Amazon means defending the planet.

    October 22, 2025
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    The Rainforest Spoke. Amazonian Legislators Listened.

    The Parliamentarians for a Fossil-Free Amazon call for a moratorium on new oil and mining projects – starting with Indigenous territories.

    In the face of inaction and paralysis of countries in making significant progress to address the climate crisis and its principal driver – fossil fuels – a worldwide coalition of legislative leaders has taken matters into their own hands, demonstrating what true climate leadership can look like.

    October 9, 2025
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    Defending Mocoa in Southern Colombia

    Art, culture, and children’s resistance against Giant Copper mining threat

    “Mocoa is the most conserved territory, where the mountains hold the winds of the ancestors, which descend to embrace the Amazon.”

    October 1, 2025
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    Recent Reports

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    Drilling Toward Disaster

    Amazon Crude and Ecuador’s Oil Gamble

    The Amazon is rapidly becoming a new frontier for oil production. This coincides with the Amazon biome reaching an existential tipping point. Amazon crude from Ecuador is a major contributor to this dangerous cycle.

    June 2025
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    In the Shadows of the State

    Illicit Economies and Armed Control in the Triple Border Region of Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru

    This report calls for a regional strategy centered on environmental protection, state-building, and community governance.

    August 2025
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    Drug Trafficking in Indigenous Territories of the Peruvian Amazon

    Routes, Impacts, and Failed Policies

    In Peru, drug trafficking is one of the main threats to the Amazon and Indigenous peoples. This report presents concrete proposals to reposition Indigenous peoples not only as victims, but as political actors who can help shape solutions.

    May 2025
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    News on Indigenous Rights, the Amazon, and Our Global Climate Crisis

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    Standing With the Kakataibo

    Resilience amid Peru’s crisis of corruption and organized crime

    The Kakataibo have made it clear to us: they will not give up. Their fight to reclaim and defend their ancestral lands has lasted more than two decades, and this is simply another chapter in a long struggle for survival and justice.

    October 22, 2025
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    Ecuador and Oil: A Challenge for Democracy and the Amazon

    Since the adoption of the Paris Agreement, more than 930,000 square kilometers have been opened for oil and gas exploration in Latin America and the Caribbean, an area larger than Venezuela

    El País | What is at stake is not only Ecuador’s Amazon. A just energy transition must begin from the principle of shared but differentiated responsibility.

    October 7, 2025
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    Ferrogrão Is a Shortcut to Collapse

    The railway is being sold as a logistical solution, but in practice it means more deforestation, land invasions, and poison

    O Globo | Ferrogrão is the backbone of a corridor that transforms the Amazon into a commodity export route and condemns Brazil to a subservient role.

    September 30, 2025
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    California Lawmakers Seek to Curb Oil Imports from Amazon

    Associated Press | “Consuming oil from the Amazon is incompatible with climate leadership. As the world’s fourth-largest economy, California is sending a powerful market signal by examining its crude footprint and role in Amazon destruction.”

    August 27, 2025
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    When Criminals Rule the Amazon Jungle and Time Runs Out

    The crisis of public security, environmental crime, and human rights must be on the agenda of the Summit of Amazonian Countries

    El País | Without coordinated action and meaningful inclusion of local voices, the region faces escalating violence and irreversible damage to one of the world’s most critical ecosystems.

    August 19, 2025
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