I'm deeply honored that @amazonwatch's Amazon Defenders Fund is making timely, potentially life-saving contributions to indigenous partners confronting the rising & deadly tide of #COVID19 in their communities.
Oxygen concentrators delivered to Brazil's Munduruku people.
Hoje a ssociação indígena Pariri e associação de mulheres Wakoborun (ambas Munduruku) receberam 40 concentradores de oxigênio doado pelo Amazon Watch, com a parceria com Dsei Tapajós, Saúde Alegria, Greenpeace e Expecionário da Saúde.
É assim que se faz @helderbarbalho 💪🏾
WATCH 📽️Oil Debt: Financing Amazon Destruction📽️ is a new documentary about the Achuar, Wampís & Chapra nations of the Peruvian Amazon as they fight to protect their territory against oil company @petroperu_sa & its financiers that enable its destruction.
https://t.co/1LfXvmhelE
On the 1st day of the Free Land Camp 2024, a delegation from The Alliance Against Ferrograo met with Brazil's Minister of Environment, Marina Silva, & the presidents of two main Brazilian institutes responsible for environmental protection. #MarcoAncestral#DemarcaçãoJá#atl2024
Waterways are the highways of local communities; low water levels leave them isolated and severely impacts the economy through loss of fish, food supplies and clean drinking water.
Christian Poirier, Senior Member Amazon Watch @cpeartree
Listen back: https://t.co/2Jcm3To7uD
.@Cargill shortens timeline to end deforestation in Brazil. Is it enough?
Beka Munduruku traveled frm the Amazon to confront Cargill & these are results! We'll work to ensure they're more than just words. BIG step forward for Indigenous ppls & the Amazon! https://t.co/ejTI1YjFC9
📢 CANADA'S EXTRACTIVE PRACTICES ARE BEING EXPOSED at the @UN#UPRCanada. It will face the consequences of its corporate abuses linked to 37 Canadian projects in 9 Latin American countries. Protection of the Amazon & human rights must win over economic interests! #UnmaskingCanada
Today, we are #UnmaskingCanada & its extractive companies at the @UN Human Rights Council for its corporate abuses linked to 37 Canadian projects across nine countries in Latin America & the Caribbean.
‘Our world hangs by a thread’: Indigenous activist @SawBeka asks US agri giant @Cargill to stop destroying Amazon rainforest
#BurningLegacy
Check out the article here:
https://t.co/fLRwg3ovAc
“Today we made history!
This consultation, born from the people, demonstrates the greatest national consensus in Ecuador. It is the first time that a country decides to defend life and leave oil underground.
It is a historic victory for Ecuador and for the planet!”
#SÍalYasuní
¡Hoy hicimos historia!
Esta consulta, nacida desde la ciudadanía, demuestra el mayor consenso nacional en Ecuador. Es la primera vez que un país decide defender la vida y dejar el petróleo bajo tierra.
¡Es una victoria histórica para Ecuador y para el planeta!
#SÍalYasuní
This Sunday, Ecuadorians will decide on a historic referendum to restrict oil in Yasuní National Park. A successful “yes” vote could protect 1M hectares of rainforest, and defend the rights of the Tagaeri, Taromenane, and Dugakaeri peoples. #SiAlYasuni https://t.co/0pIj5vRVcq
🧵Yasuní is a biodiverse & cultural treasure in the Ecuadorian Amazon that we must protect for the future of our planet. August 20 will mark a historic moment for #ClimateJustice & the end of fossil fuels. Ecuadorians will vote to keep the oil in the soil!
https://t.co/is9YbGTYfa
🧵Earlier this month, we joined a meeting in Leticia to support our Indigenous partners and work with @Avaaz towards the Amazonian President's Summit in Belem - an important space to advocate for Indigenous & territorial rights for the rainforest /1 https://t.co/e51D3HA4JX
On July 3, the world learned that a Yanomami child was shot and killed and 5 community members wounded in #Brazil, in violence related to illegal mining.
We need urgent action to dismantle the criminal networks plaguing these territories, says @cpeartree. https://t.co/rVeZ7q6lzO
This Friday, June 23, 2023, the Peruvian Congress might vote to modify the Indigenous Peoples in Isolation and Initial Contact (PIACI) law, leaving the door open for the genocide of dozens of cultures and the destruction of 13% of the Peruvian Amazon. https://t.co/oshSZhLnAZ