Rights / February 4, 2023 The Sinangoe Precedent: An Instrument of Protection for Indigenous Rights and Lands Breakdown The climate and ecological crisis is worsening, in large part due to the expansion… Read more Amazon Frontlines
Chronicles / January 27, 2023 Feature: In the Upper Amazon, Waorani communities work to decolonize education Summary Education, the bedrock for building a diverse world, is indispensable for the cultural survival… Read more Amazon Frontlines
Media Coverage / December 15, 2022 These Indigenous Women Are Fighting Big Oil — And Winning This story was originally published in TIME. BY NEMONTE NENQUIMO AND NONHLE MBUTHUMA DECEMBER 15,… Read more Amazon Frontlines
Rights / December 12, 2022 Returning To Our Origins To Continue Being Siekopai What does it take to reclaim ancestral lands that you were systematically dispossessed of? And… Read more Amazon Frontlines
Chronicles / October 6, 2022 The First Line of Defense: Indigenous Guards of the Amazon They are the “eyes” of their communities. Watching over their forests and rivers and looking… Read more Amazon Frontlines
Rights / October 3, 2022 In Conversation: Nemonte Nenquimo & Vanessa Kirby on our climate crisis Tackling a challenge as big as climate change takes solidarity and action between people across… Read more Amazon Frontlines
Rights / September 8, 2022 Reclaiming Stolen Indigenous Land: The Siekopai’s Struggle for Survival For decades, Siekopai communities have fought to regain territorial rights over their ancestral homeland. This… Read more Amazon Frontlines
Rights / August 31, 2022 Deforestation Inside Conservation Areas: Ecuador’s Failure to Protect the Amazon For the past two hours we have been driving from the frontier town of Lago… Read more Nicolas Mainville
Rights / June 23, 2022 Ecuador’s National Strike: The Legitimate Right To Demand Change Last week, for the third time since 2019, tensions between Ecuador’s government and Indigenous communities… Read more Amazon Frontlines
New New / June 14, 2022 Media Alert – Ecuador National Strike & Leonidas Iza Salazar Arrest At dawn today, June 14th, 2022, Leonidas Iza Salazar of Kichwa panzaleo nationality, and current… Read more Amazon Frontlines
Rights / March 4, 2022 Siekopai Nation: Three Fronts for Territorial Reunification and Surviving Extermination Throughout 2021, the Siekopai Nation achieved the first important advances in its persistent struggle for… Read more Amazon Frontlines
Press Releases / February 4, 2022 Ecuador’s Supreme Court Makes Historic Ruling Recognizing Indigenous Right to Consent Over Oil and Mining Projects For more information, contact: Kelsey Flitter at +1.215.680.6191; Kelsey@amazonfrontlines.org Photos, video and spokespeople available upon request…. Read more Amazon Frontlines
