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Indigenous peoples across the Amazon have delivered a mandate the world cannot ignore: protect their territories, respect their right to say no, and end fossil fuel extraction in the Amazon. Their rights are our collective future. #EyeOnTheAmazon #AmazonEmergency amazonwatch.org/news/2026/09...
Indigenous Peoples Delivered a Mandate the World Cannot Ignore | Amazon Watch
At its core, the Mandate asserts that Indigenous peoples’ territories, their governance systems, and their knowledge are most effective for protecting the Amazon and their living territories.
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September 14, 2026 at 6:20 PM
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This Is What True Climate Leadership Looks Like

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

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This Is What True Climate Leadership Looks Like | Amazon Watch
“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.”
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December 4, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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From Self-Government to Climate Leadership: The Wampis Nation’s Story

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From Self-Government to Climate Leadership: The Wampis Nation’s Story | Amazon Watch
“For us, the Wampis, autonomy means living in freedom and peace as we have inherited our territory. It means being free from pollution and deciding our own future, for ourselves, but also for all of h...
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December 11, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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#EyeOnTheAmazon from @amazonmiller.bsky.social critiques the “Donroe Doctrine” as US policy pushes deeper into the Amazon region & beyond, urging a foreign policy rooted in justice & solidarity, not interventionism. Read more:
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Pushing Back Against the “Donroe Doctrine” | Amazon Watch
When Petro met Trump on February 3rd, the stakes were high. The Trump Administration had decertified Colombia from receiving security assistance on grounds that it was not adequately addressing drug t...
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February 26, 2026 at 6:18 PM
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This is the Tapajós River speaking: "I lend the voice of the humans who live alongside me to ask for help from all of you. I want to continue being a river and not a dead waterway. I am a corridor of biodiversity, life, and ancestry!" #NaoFerrograo
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Ancestral Outcry: The Battle to Save the Tapajós River from the Ferrogrão Mega-Railway | Amazon Watch
Dozens of canoes lined with signs denouncing Ferrogrão formed a barrier blocking the traffic of barges transporting soy and other commodities.
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November 21, 2024 at 7:53 PM
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Indigenous Women Denounce Violence and Call for Gender Justice in the Peruvian Amazon amazonwatch.org/news/2024/06...
Indigenous Women Denounce Violence and Call for Gender Justice in the Peruvian Amazon | Amazon Watch
Indigenous women in the Peruvian Amazon are denouncing abuse in #awajún public schools and calling for gender justice. Amazon Watch stands with them. Learn how on #EyeOntheAmazon.
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July 1, 2024 at 8:17 PM
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You Can’t Kill a River

As the Amazon prepares to host COP30, the world must hear this message: you cannot kill a river. A forest is worth more than gold. And the peoples of the Xingu will not be silenced.

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You Can’t Kill a River | Amazon Watch
In the Volta Grande do Xingu, the river still runs. Even with turbines and licenses strangling it, the Xingu endures because the peoples who protect it refuse to disappear.
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July 24, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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Indigenous Women Denounce Violence and Call for Gender Justice in the Peruvian Amazon | Amazon Watch
Indigenous women in the Peruvian Amazon are denouncing abuse in #awajún public schools and calling for gender justice. Amazon Watch stands with them. Learn how on #EyeOntheAmazon.
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June 28, 2024 at 1:36 PM
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Indigenous Peoples Denounce Criminal Expansion in the Amazon at the U.N. and Call for Global Action - @amazonwatch.bsky.social #EyeOnTheAmazon amazonwatch.org/news/2025/05...
Indigenous Peoples Denounce Criminal Expansion in the Amazon at the U.N. and Call for Global Action | Amazon Watch
“The Permanent Forum must formally recognize that organized crime and illegal economies such as drug trafficking and illegal mining are an existential threat to our peoples."
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May 6, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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Indigenous Women Leaders Took Center Stage at COP28 #IndigenousPeoples #COP28 #ClimateAction amazonwatch.org/news/2023/12...
Indigenous Women Leaders Took Center Stage at COP28 | Amazon Watch
#COP28 did not accomplish what the world needed, but there is hope for the path to COP30 as Indigenous women demonstrated effective advocacy, leadership, and solidarity in Dubai. #EyeOnTheAmazon
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December 14, 2023 at 9:56 PM
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Indigenous Women Leaders Took Center Stage at COP28

Hope for the path to COP30 as Indigenous women demonstrate effective advocacy, leadership, and solidarity
Indigenous Women Leaders Took Center Stage at COP28 | Amazon Watch
#COP28 did not accomplish what the world needed, but there is hope for the path to COP30 as Indigenous women demonstrated effective advocacy, leadership, and solidarity in Dubai. #EyeOnTheAmazon
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December 15, 2023 at 9:15 AM
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“The answer is us!” Over 300 Mura leaders united in defense of their land, joined by allies from the Munduruku. Together, they’re rising against mining and taking their fight global ahead of #COP30. Read more on #EyeOnTheAmazon amazonwatch.org/news/2025/06...
Mura People Rise Against Mining Invasion in Brazil | Amazon Watch
“What happened at this large meeting was not just a gathering of the Mura most directly affected by the Brazil Potash project. Rather, the significance of this event lies in the fact that this struggl...
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June 11, 2025 at 8:34 AM
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🚨 @Chevron just held its shareholder meeting — but couldn’t silence the global backlash.
🛢️ Protests in Ecuador.
📉 Divestment by the Swiss National bank.
💥 A quarter of shareholders demanding change.
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Chevron’s Toxic Empire on Trial | Amazon Watch
“Chevron came in, extracted oil, poisoned the land and water, and then walked away."
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May 29, 2025 at 10:42 PM
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🚨 Brazil is on the brink of environmental disaster. The Devastation Bill threatens Indigenous rights, biodiversity & global climate commitments. Civil society is rising. The world is watching. Lula:VETO IT ALL. Take action amazonwatch.org/news/2025/07... #VetaTudoLula #PLdaDevastacao #EyeOnTheAmazon
Lula, the World Is Watching: Veto the Devastation Bill Now! | Amazon Watch
“Our future will be condemned if President Lula doesn’t veto the Devastation Bill.”
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July 31, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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"During the blockade, Munduruku protestors were subjected to racism, verbal abuse, threats, and physical violence from truck drivers transporting agricultural commodities." @amazonwatch.bsky.social #EyeOnTheAmazon amazonwatch.org/news/2025/04...
Munduruku Protest for Indigenous Land Rights Reaches Brazil’s Supreme Court | Amazon Watch
“It was a struggle to get to this meeting. We spent days and nights under the sun and rain, blocking cargo transport on the highway. We had to hit agribusiness in the pocket to be heard by the Supreme...
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April 29, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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As President Bolsonaro Takes Power, Brazil's Indigenous Movement Prepares to Resist #EleNão #ComplicityInDestruction #LandRightsNow #EyeOnTheAmazon #Resista #DefendEarthDefenders http://amwt.ch/4380 via @AmazonWatch
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February 8, 2025 at 9:41 AM