The Waorani people took to the streets of Puyo to mark the three-year anniversary of Ecuador's historic Yasuní referendum and ...

I stand in solidarity with the Awajún Wampis Women’s Council Umukai Yawi (COMUAWUY) and amplify their call for protection and ...

This month, news broke that El Niño has officially begun. Scientists predict a strong likelihood that this year’s El Niño, a naturally-occurring climate phenomenon driven by warmer-than-average sea ...

In late October, Ecuador’s right-wing president Guillermo Lasso declared a state of emergency, citing rising violent crime. But the surprise move also conveniently suspended civil liberties just as ...

Last year, Indigenous leaders, climate defenders, and allied movements secured important advances in visibility, coordination, and political pressure during the 30th United Nations Climate Change ...

Dutch by birth but living in Latin America for two decades, Raphael Hoetmer has travelled the Amazon rivers alongside Indigenous defenders and peasants to collaborate in their struggles for territory ...

In February 2026, more than 60 Indigenous leaders from Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru gathered in the Peruvian Amazon to confront a rapidly growing threat: the expansion of organized crime and ...

In a powerful win for the protection of the Amazon, Indigenous-led opposition, and our End Amazon Crude campaign, state-run Petroperú has failed to attract a single bid for Block 64 – a site of ...

“The answer is us!” cried more than 300 Mura leaders, youth, and elders during the VIII Assembly of the Mura People, held last month in the Lago do Soares Indigenous Land, a traditional Mura territory ...

Potássio do Brasil, the Brazilian subsidiary of Canadian mining company Brazil Potash, exposed in the report Complicity in Destruction III, was fined US$ 20,000 (BR$ 100,000) by a Brazilian federal ...

Belém, Brazil – The arrest of the director of Brazil’s National Mining Agency (ANM) and a senior official of the Brazilian Geological Survey (SGB), along with 20 others targeted by the Federal ...

Last week, the notorious North Peruvian Pipeline leaked at least 6,000 liters of oil, directly threatening the lives and livelihoods of the Indigenous Quechua and Achuar peoples of the north Peruvian ...