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Amo Amazonia 2009 View photos Hundreds of people form a human banner in Peru to draw attention to plight of the Amazon. Click here to read a press release on this event.

Scenes from COP15 View photos Official delegations from 192 countries and a sizable number of non-governmental organizations and indigenous leaders gathered at the UN Climate Change Conference (COP15) in Copenhagen in an attempt to make progress toward a binding treaty to fight climate change. Amazon Watch joined others in calling for climate justice and the explicit recognition of indigenous peoples' rights in the new climate change agreement.

Meeting of Peoples Affected by Financing from Brazil's Development Bank (BNDES) View photos Photos from a November gathering of Brazilian and other South American community representatives negatively affected by projects financed by BNDES. The meeting was organized by the Plataforma BNDES, a network of civil society organizations that is working to democratize the bank and reform its lending practices.

Affected Communities March Against Chevron Corruption in Ecuador View photos Over 400 people from indigenous and farming communities around Lago Agrio, Ecuador, marched to a toxic dump site today to protest Chevron's on-going attempts to derail the $27 billion lawsuit that will soon come to a close after more than 16 years of courtroom struggle.

San Francisco Premiere of CRUDE View photos Photos from opening night of CRUDE in San Francisco.

Demonstrations and Repression of Protestors in Ecuador View photos The incident near the town of Macas in Southern Ecuadorian Amazon has reportedly left at least one Shuar indigenous protester dead, and dozens injured from both sides.

Los Angeles City Premiere of CRUDE View photos Photos from opening night of CRUDE in Los Angeles.

Contamination and failed cleanup by OXY and Pluspetrol in Corrientes, Peru View photos These photos show some sites in oil block 1-AB visited by E-Tech International to evaluate the effectiveness of Pluspetrol's cleanup of OXY's legacy. Often the contamination is buried and not visible to the eye, but the absence of plants in the lush rainforest environment is a visual indication of the problems in the soil. E-Tech's report found heavy metals, volatile organic compounds and hydrocarbons present at unsafe levels in many of the sites visited.

New York City Premiere of CRUDE View photos Photos from opening night of CRUDE in New York City.

The Madeira River Complex, Brazil and Bolivia 2009 View photos Photos from an Amazon Watch trip through the Madeira River basin to bring back stories of anguish and hope in the fight to stop the construction of two mega-hydroelectric dams on the Amazon's principal tributary.

Peruvian police fire on unarmed indigenous tribes' oil and gas protest View photos At approximately 5 am this morning, the Peruvian military police staged a violent raid on a group of indigenous people at a peaceful blockade on a road outside of Bagua, in a remote area of northern Peruvian Amazon. Several thousand Awajun and Wambis indigenous peoples were forcibly dispersed by tear gas and real bullets, among them are confirmed reports of at least 18 injured and 8 civilians confirmed dead, although the number of dead is likely to be several times higher.

Chevron AGM 2009 Action View photos Representatives of indigenous and farming communities from Ecuador's Amazon have brought their 15-year battle for justice to Chevron's doorstep. Luis Yanza, winner of the 2008 Goldman Environmental Prize, and Emergildo Criollo, a leader of the Cofán indigenous people who were decimated by oil operations on their territory are addressing CEO David O'Reilly before shareholders at the company Annual General Meeting today in San Ramon, California. A protest by a large coalition of human rights and environmental organizations is taking place outside the building.

Protests at Peru's UN Mission in New York View photos Indigenous leaders from around the world were joined by supporters in a demonstration today outside the Peuvian Mission to the United Nations, urging the Alan Garcia Government to respect indigenous peoples' rights and repeal a series of new laws passed under the pretext of implementing the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with the United States.

Protests in Peru - May 21st, 2009 View photos Awajun indigenous protesters in Bagua, northern Peru, where armed police put many of them into hospital in a May 10th attack on their peaceful blockade of the Corral Quemado Bridge

Protests in Peru - April 2009 View photos Bagua, Peru: Members of the Wampis and Awajun peoples protest government decrees affecting indigenous lands

Ecuador oil spill pollutes river in Amazon View photos A rupture in Ecuador's second largest oil pipeline polluted the Santa Rosa river in the lush Amazon jungle and shut off the flow of crude to a Pacific port in the city of Esmeraldas.

S.O.S. Amazon! View photos View photos of indigenous people from across Latin America leading over 1000 participants of the World Social Forum to form human banners, using their bodies to draw attention to the increasingly precarious situation of the Amazon rainforest.

2008 Urubamba River Peru Field Investigation View photos View photos of Amazon Watch campaigner, Andrew Miller's visit to the Machiguenga communities in the Lower Urubamba River in Peru. Amazon Watch and the local communities are deeply concerned that the impacts of the existing Camisea gas project are likely to be compounded by additional oil operations planned nearby by Spain's Repsol (Block 57) and Brazil's Petrobras (Block 58).

Chevron AGM 2008 Action View photos In a dramatic face-to-face showdown at Chevron's annual general meeting, victims of the company's grave human rights abuses from three continents today told shareholders and senior executives that the oil major must live up to its corporate rhetoric on human rights and the environment, and also take decisive action to make amends to the communities it has devastated.   Community representatives from Burma, Ecuador and Nigeria traveled for days to participate in the meeting as proxy shareholders, calling on Chevron CEO David O'Reilly to stop hiding behind lawyers and PR misinformation, and to recognize and rectify the suffering the company has caused.

A Toxic Legacy of Oil in Block 1ab View photos "Clean Up Operation" Launched at Occidental Petroleum Headquarters On May 1, 2008, Indigenous leaders from the Peruvian Amazon and environmentalists donned hazmat suits and staged a major "clean-up operation" outside the global headquarters of Occidental Petroleum (Oxy) to urge the company to remediate a toxic disaster it created in the Peruvian Amazon rainforest.

The Chevron Toxic Legacy View photos The plight of Ecuador's Amazon rainforest was in the spotlight during the Live Earth concerts on July7th, 2007 as celebrities rallied behind the cause. Pablo Fajardo, the lead Ecuadorian Lawyer in the Chevron case met with Sting, his wife Trudie Styler and members of The Police while in NYC for the concert. Daryl Hannah was interviewed on Bravo discussing her recent trip to Ecuador with Amazon Watch. Also see images of a 600-person protest in Lago last week where people formed giant words 'Justice' and 'SOS'.

Save the Yasuni Rainforest View photos The Ecuadorian government's offer to forgo oil development in the ITT portion of Yasuni would be a giant first step towards breaking Ecuador's dependence on oil. Ecologists and indigenous leaders in Ecuador join in formation to send a message to the World about Saving Yasuni Park.

The Chevron Toxic Legacy View photos San Ramon, CA, Chevron AGM 2007; Ecuador Disaster Dominates Chevron Shareholder Meeting, Chevron CEO Invited: Join Us: Put These Scandals behind You.

A Toxic Legacy of Oil in Block 1ab View photos 30 years of oil production in Block 1AB of the northern Peruvian Amazon has left indigenous peoples like the Peruvian Achuar, who have lived in the area since time immemorial, suffering malnutrition, sickness and social disruption.

The Chevron Toxic Legacy View photos Between 1971 and 1991, Texaco extracted more than 1.5 billion barrels of oil from the Ecuadorian Amazon. In order to save millions of dollars, Texaco simply dumped the toxic wastes from its operations into the pristine rivers, forest streams and wetlands, ignoring industry standards.

ConocoPhillips Oil Projects vs. Indigenous Communities in the Amazon View photos CONOCOPHILLIPS in ECUADOR: The Shuar, Achuar, and Kichwa have denounced plans for oil extraction in Blocks 23 and 24 since the Ecuadorian government first awarded the concessions. Instead, they are calling for a plan to permanently protect the vast roadless rainforest region and promote sustainable development. Due to ConocoPhillips' recent acquisition of Burlington Resources, the company is now the owner and operator of Block 24, and holds a 50% share in Block 23 with Argentine partner CGC.

Camisea Natural Gas Project View photos Peru´s Camisea Gas Project is currently the most damaging project in the Amazon Basin. Located in the remote Urubamba Valley in the south-east Peruvian Amazon, the $1.6 billion project includes two pipelines to the Peruvian coast cutting through an Amazon biodiversity hotspot described by scientists as 'the last place on earth' to drill for fossil fuels.

Amazon Oil Expansion and the OCP Pipeline View photos Ignoring the devastating toll thirty years of reckless oil development has taken on the country, a consortium of multinational oil companies are near completion on a controversial new oil pipeline project known as the OCP (Oleoducto de Crudos Pesados).

Ecopetrol’s Siriri Oil Project View photos In 1992, Occidental Petroleum (OXY) and Royal Dutch Shell acquired oil exploration rights to U´wa ancestral land. In 1997, Royal Dutch Shell pulled out of the project. After a decade-long international solidarity campaign and $100 million spent fruitlessly on exploratory drilling, OXY also pulled out of the project in May 2002.