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The amazon rainforest is approaching an irreversible ecological tipping point.

We partner with indigenous peoples to protect the forest they call home and that we all depend on.

Our team of human right activists, land defenders and community leaders work on the frontlines to strengthen Indigenous guardianship.

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Our mission is to power a movement to protect the Amazon and our climate

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"When a tree falls in the forest, it makes a sound that the entire world should hear."

Nemonte Nenquimo, Waorani leader and Amazon Frontlines co-founder.

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Featured Stories

COP16 Biodiversity Summit: “They talked about our territories without us”

Global Recognition for Our Movement: Amazon Frontlines Receives the 2024 Hilton Humanitarian Prize

The dream of the Siekopai people: a future without borders

The Heart of Siekopai Territory: Getting our homeland back

The Tipping Point: Is the Amazon Rainforest Approaching a Point of No Return?

Our Third Binational Meeting: 25 years of Siekopai resistance and celebration

Amazon Fires Devastate Indigenous Territories and Protected Areas: A Crisis in Numbers

Indigenous Women’s Day: Guardians on the Frontlines, Defending Their Territories

Ecuador’s Government Is Failing to Comply with Yasuni Climate Victory

International Jury Selects Amazon Frontlines to Receive 2024 Hilton Humanitarian Prize

Indigenous Peoples’ Day: an invitation to listen to the Earth and its guardians

New studies reaffirm Indigenous-led conservation as key in tackling biodiversity and climate crisis

7 Reasons the Siekopai Won Big For Indigenous Land Back in the Amazon

Protecting the territory with technology

The right to education of indigenous boys and girls of the Amazon: The feeling from the struggle of the A’i Cofán de Sinangoe community

Indigenous nationalities of the Ecuadorian Amazon unite in the fight against the advance of oil companies

Community-led Education: Lessons Being Woven to Protect Indigenous Territories and the Largest Rainforest in the World

Amazonian Medicinal Plants: beings of healing and connection

Ecuador’s president won’t give up on oil drilling in the Amazon. We plan to stop him – again.

We Are a Weaving of Gazes

Media Coverage

/ May 27, 2024

‘I want people to wake up’: Nemonte Nenquimo on growing up in the rainforest and her fight to save it

The Indigenous campaigner won a historic legal victory to protect Waorani land in the Amazon rainforest. Now she has written a groundbreaking memoir

A Tapestry of Biodiversity: Guarding the Relations of the Amazon

A home for sacred species Imagine: the sharp song of the pëëriri (nocturnal curassow) travels…

For Us, By Us: Indigenous-Powered Solar Energy in the Amazon

For Us, By Us: Indigenous-Powered Solar Energy in the Amazon As Indigenous nations of the…

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Stand with indigenous peoples to protect the Amazon and our global climate

Stand with indigenous peoples to protect the Amazon and our global climate

The amazon rainforest is approaching an irreversible ecological tipping point.

We partner with indigenous peoples to protect the forest they call home and that we all depend on.

"When a tree falls in the forest, it makes a sound that the entire world should hear."

Every action matters
in our interconnected world.

Featured Stories

COP16 Biodiversity Summit: “They talked about our territories without us”

Global Recognition for Our Movement: Amazon Frontlines Receives the 2024 Hilton Humanitarian Prize

The dream of the Siekopai people: a future without borders

The Heart of Siekopai Territory: Getting our homeland back

The Tipping Point: Is the Amazon Rainforest Approaching a Point of No Return?

Our Third Binational Meeting: 25 years of Siekopai resistance and celebration

Amazon Fires Devastate Indigenous Territories and Protected Areas: A Crisis in Numbers

Indigenous Women’s Day: Guardians on the Frontlines, Defending Their Territories

Ecuador’s Government Is Failing to Comply with Yasuni Climate Victory

International Jury Selects Amazon Frontlines to Receive 2024 Hilton Humanitarian Prize

Indigenous Peoples’ Day: an invitation to listen to the Earth and its guardians

New studies reaffirm Indigenous-led conservation as key in tackling biodiversity and climate crisis

7 Reasons the Siekopai Won Big For Indigenous Land Back in the Amazon

Protecting the territory with technology

The right to education of indigenous boys and girls of the Amazon: The feeling from the struggle of the A’i Cofán de Sinangoe community

Indigenous nationalities of the Ecuadorian Amazon unite in the fight against the advance of oil companies

Community-led Education: Lessons Being Woven to Protect Indigenous Territories and the Largest Rainforest in the World

Amazonian Medicinal Plants: beings of healing and connection

Ecuador’s president won’t give up on oil drilling in the Amazon. We plan to stop him – again.

We Are a Weaving of Gazes

‘I want people to wake up’: Nemonte Nenquimo on growing up in the rainforest and her fight to save it

A Tapestry of Biodiversity: Guarding the Relations of the Amazon

For Us, By Us: Indigenous-Powered Solar Energy in the Amazon

Strengthen
our movement

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Whats Happens here matters everywhere

Stand with indigenous peoples to protect the Amazon and our global climate

Stand with indigenous peoples to protect the Amazon and our global climate

The amazon rainforest is approaching an irreversible ecological tipping point. We partner with indigenous peoples to protect the forest they call home and that we all depend on.

"When a tree falls in the forest, it makes a sound that the entire world should hear."

Every action matters in our interconnected world.

Featured Stories

COP16 Biodiversity Summit: “They talked about our territories without us”

Global Recognition for Our Movement: Amazon Frontlines Receives the 2024 Hilton Humanitarian Prize

The dream of the Siekopai people: a future without borders

The Heart of Siekopai Territory: Getting our homeland back

The Tipping Point: Is the Amazon Rainforest Approaching a Point of No Return?

Our Third Binational Meeting: 25 years of Siekopai resistance and celebration

Amazon Fires Devastate Indigenous Territories and Protected Areas: A Crisis in Numbers

Indigenous Women’s Day: Guardians on the Frontlines, Defending Their Territories

Ecuador’s Government Is Failing to Comply with Yasuni Climate Victory

International Jury Selects Amazon Frontlines to Receive 2024 Hilton Humanitarian Prize

Indigenous Peoples’ Day: an invitation to listen to the Earth and its guardians

New studies reaffirm Indigenous-led conservation as key in tackling biodiversity and climate crisis

7 Reasons the Siekopai Won Big For Indigenous Land Back in the Amazon

Protecting the territory with technology

The right to education of indigenous boys and girls of the Amazon: The feeling from the struggle of the A’i Cofán de Sinangoe community

Indigenous nationalities of the Ecuadorian Amazon unite in the fight against the advance of oil companies

Community-led Education: Lessons Being Woven to Protect Indigenous Territories and the Largest Rainforest in the World

Amazonian Medicinal Plants: beings of healing and connection

Ecuador’s president won’t give up on oil drilling in the Amazon. We plan to stop him – again.

We Are a Weaving of Gazes

‘I want people to wake up’: Nemonte Nenquimo on growing up in the rainforest and her fight to save it

A Tapestry of Biodiversity: Guarding the Relations of the Amazon

For Us, By Us: Indigenous-Powered Solar Energy in the Amazon

Strengthen our movement

The amazon rainforest is approaching an irreversible ecological tipping point.

We partner with indigenous peoples to protect the forest they call home and that we all depend on.

Every action matters
in our interconnected world.

Strengthen
our movement