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The Amazon

Is Not For Sale

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Ecuador is selling off the Amazon through nearly 50 oil projects.

If we don’t act now, an area the size of Belgium could be logged, drilled, and contaminated with oil, destroying the home of 7 Indigenous nationalities.

The government did not consult them, nor does it have their consent for these projects; that is illegal and unconstitutional.

Join the movement now! We need to gather thousands of voices to denounce the government and the companies involved, support Indigenous resistance, and stop this massacre in the Ecuadorian Amazon.

Join organizations and public figures from all over the world:

The Amazon is not for sale!

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Stop Selling the Amazon Rainforest to Big Oil!

Indigenous leaders in Ecuador are joining together to defend our right to decide what happens in our home.

Join the fight!

The government is auctioning away our lands to oil companies that will continue to destroy the earth. They do not have our consent. They never will. With your support we will build a massive global movement and an unstoppable Indigenous resistance. We will expose the lies of the government and oil companies, challenge every step of the oil auction in court, and defend this planet that is sacred to all of us.

Join the Indigenous resistance and Stop the Southeastern Oil Round!

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Join them

From across the globe, activists, artists, and organizations are standing up to Big Oil and uniting to support Indigenous communities and defend the lungs of the Earth.

Jane Fonda, Lupita Nyong’o, Emma Thompson, David Suzuki, Mark Ruffalo, Cate Blanchett, Gillian Anderson, Rosario Dawson, Viggo Mortensen, Eugenio Debrez, Gael García Bernal, Stephen Fry, Patricia Allison, Alan Cumming, Devery Jacobs, Jimmy Smits, James Cromwell, Paulina Jewel Alexis, Kristin Bauer, Livia Giuggioli Firth, Cameron Russell, Nikita Gill, Nathalie Mallqui, Gabriela Hearst, Dolores Huertas, Kumi Naidoo, Annie Leonard, Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim, Gerardo Ceballos, Aileen Getty, Gerald Torres, Valerie Rockefeller, Peter Rockefeller, David Rockefeller Jr, Susan Rockefeller, Rebecca Rockefeller Lambert, Rachael Knight, Branda Ortega, Miranda Kaiser.

  • Greenpeace
  • 350.org
  • Alliance for Indigenous People and Local Communities for Conservation in Africa
  • AMAN
  • Accion Ecologica
  • Aliansi Masyarakat Adat Nusantara / The Indigenous Peoples Alliance of the Archipelago
  • Amazon Watch
  • Asia Indigenous Peoples Pact (AIPP)
  • Asociación Americana de Juristas sede Ecuador
  • Association OKANI
  • AVAAZ
  • Awana Digital
  • BOLENA
  • Center for Constitutional Rights
  • Center for Indigenous Peoples’ Research and Development
  • CIPRED
  • Coalición Nacional por la Tierra y los Territorios Ecuador
  • Comité Permanente por la Defensa de los Derechos Humanos
  • Community Land Action Now
  • CONAPI
  • Consejo Regional Indígena del Cauca CRIC
  • Consorcio TICCA
  • Cultural Survival
  • Daughters for Earth
  • Forest Peoples Programme
  • Fundación ALDEA
  • Fundación Pachamama
  • Global Justice Ecology Project
  • Indigenous Climate Action
  • Instituto de Estudios Ecologistas del Tercer Mundo
  • Laudato SI
  • Leave it in the Ground Initiative (LINGO)
  • Misioneras Lauritas – Ecuador
  • Nareto Latia Indigenous Peoples’ Program
  • NDN Collective
  • Nia Tero
  • Observatorio Ciudadano
  • OMASNE
  • One Earth
  • POINT Myanmar
  • Rainforest Action Network
  • Rainforest Foundation US
  • Red Eclesial Panamazónica – REPAM
  • Red Iglesias y Minería Capítulo Ecuador
  • Red Territorios de Vida TICCA Latinoamérica
  • Surkuna Ecuador
  • Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana, México
  • WITNESS
  • Women’s Earth and Climate Action Network (WECAN)
Context

The Government Plan

The extraction and looting will affect:

An area 37,5 times
the size of New York City.

The equivalent area of a country like BELGIUM

And all of the oil extracted from the Southeastern Oil blocks will only be enough to cover 8 days of global oil consumption

Learn More

All seven Indigenous Nations of Pastaza Province request information from the Ecuadorian government about the Hydrocarbon Roadmap

The Waorani communities of Pastaza receive strong international support as they demand their right to decide on their territories

The Oil Spill that Blinded a Farmer—And Why We Must Stop Big Oil’s Expansion in the Amazon

Ecuador’s Strategy of Deceit in the Amazon

Factsheet

Andwa

The Andwa people, in the Ecuadorian Amazon, are threatened by oil blocks 80 and 81, which cover 100% of their territory along the Bobonaza River.

#TheAmazonIsNotForSale

Shuar

The second largest Indigenous nation in Ecuador. The Shuar live in the southern Amazon (Cordilleras del Cóndor and Trans-Kutukú). Their territory, already affected by mining, is now threatened by the auction of 7 oil blocks.

#TheAmazonIsNotForSale

Achuar

100% of Achuar territory in Ecuador, located in the provinces of Pastaza and Morona Santiago, is threatened by the auction of 9 oil blocks.

#TheAmazonIsNotForSale

Kichwa

The Kichwa territory has been superimposed with 10 oil blocks put up for auction.

#TheAmazonIsNotForSale

Sapara

The auction of 6 oil blocks threatens the entirety of Sapara territory, a people whose traditions were declared to be Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity by UNESCO in 2001.

#TheAmazonIsNotForSale

Shiwiar

The Shiwiar live in the province of Pastaza; their territory is superimposed by oil blocks 80, 81, 86, and 85.

#TheAmazonIsNotForSale

Waorani

The Waorani are the most recently contacted Indigenous people in Ecuador. Their communities are located in three Amazonian provinces, and for years, they have been fighting against the imposition of blocks 22 and 74 in Pastaza.

#TheAmazonIsNotForSale