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    Eye on the Amazon

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    Hope Is a Practice: 30 Years Walking With the U’wa People

    In a time of repression and daily outrage, where do we find hope? For nearly 30 years, the U’wa people of Colombia have shown the world what spiritual, cultural, and political resistance looks like. Their struggle continues, and so does our commitment.

    January 13, 2026
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    Indigenous Leadership and Collective Power in 2025

    As climate denial gained renewed political traction and governments moved to restrict civic space, Indigenous peoples and grassroots movements across the Amazon advanced bold, collective visions for the future.

    December 26, 2025
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    Recent Reports

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    The Money Trail

    Behind fossil fuel expansion in Latin American and the Caribbean

    This report shines a spotlight on companies that are exploring and developing new fossil fuel reserves or building new fossil infrastructure, and it reveals which banks and investors are backing the expansion of this dirty and dangerous industry across Latin America and the Caribbean.

    September 2025
    1,960 views
    2 min read
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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
    6,858 views
    2 min read
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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
    7,977 views
    1 min read

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

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    Small Steps Made, Big Leaps Needed: JPMorgan Chase Reveals Policy Shifts

    World’s largest fossil financier responds following Indigenous-led bank advocacy against fossil fuel expansion in the Peruvian Amazon

    The changes fall far short of what is needed to prevent violations of Indigenous peoples' rights and to halt large scale destruction of critical ecosystems like the Amazon biome.

    December 19, 2025
    4,915 views
    3 min read
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    The Amazon Does Not Need New Wars

    U.S. security strategy revives a past the region is trying to overcome

    El País | If history offers any lesson, it is this: every time the Amazon has been militarized in the name of order, the forest lost, its peoples lost, and democracy lost. Repeating that path is not a solution.

    December 17, 2025
    5,299 views
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    “It’s Not Safe to Live Here.”

    Colombia is deadliest country for environmental defenders

    Associated Press | “We have to continue defending the future, and we need more and more people to join this cause.”

    December 8, 2025
    7,087 views
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    This Is What True Climate Leadership Looks Like

    Indigenous women and the grassroots Amazonian movement carried COP30 on their shoulders

    “We’re very happy that our lands advanced in the demarcation process, but there are so many lands that still need to be recognized and demarcated in Brazil.”

    December 4, 2025
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    Ecuadorians Vote Down Noboa’s Extractive Agenda

    The results of a recent national referendum delivered a major victory for the Amazon

    This victory belongs to the people of Ecuador. It is a reminder that democratic power still matters, even in times of crisis. But it is also a beginning, not an end.

    November 20, 2025
    8,143 views
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    The Fight Against Climate Change Is Also a Fight Against Organized Crime

    Belém COP cannot succeed without taking decisive action

    Open Global Rights | Belém can be remembered as a turning point – when the world stopped treating the Amazon as a victim and began dismantling the criminal economies driving its collapse.

    November 6, 2025
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