Amazon Frontlines

Indigenous leaders #NemonteNenquimo, #HindouIbrahimm & #RukkaSombolinggi demand a larger role at #COP30. "We welcome the ambition to protect the world’s forests. But protection without self-determination is just another form of control & colonialism."
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⚖️ Official Decision:

The Freeze on Ceibo Alliance’s Bank Accounts Was Unjustified

Judge orders that the accounts of Ceibo Alliance and other organizations be unfrozen and recognizes their actions as legal and legitimate.

Learn More Here 👇
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👁 Indigenous Guards are ancestral, community-based organizations that defend life and territory. They include Indigenous youth and elders, women and men, who protect their lands and show the world what Indigenous-led conservation truly means. ✊🏽

Indigenous Women Behind the Lens - Amazon Frontlines Indigenous Women Behind the Lens A visual journey through photography workshops with land defenders in...

📸Photography goes beyond images. “Stories in Territory” was developed by Johis Alarcon as part of the
@catchlight-io.bsky.social Global Fellowship in collaboration with photography students and Indigenous communities of the Upper Amazon.

🔗View the Exhibition- amazonfrontlines.org/chronicles/i...

Estamos contrando!🍃
#AmazonFrontlines busca un/a defensor/a de derechos humanos y abogado/a proactivo/a y comprometido/a para unirse a nuestro equipo.
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#Ecuador is selling off the Amazon through nearly 50 oil projects.
If we don’t act now, the extraction will affect
🌍 An area 37.5 times the size of New York
🇧🇪 The equivalent area of a country like Belgium will be devastated
📍 View the interactive map theamazonisnotforsale.org
#TheAmazonisNOTforSale

Paro en Ecuador 🇪🇨

En medio de violaciones a los derechos humanos y el avance del extractivismo, los pueblos indígenas defienden sus territorios y alzan la voz frente al avance de los proyectos extractivos. La lucha es por la vida y la justicia.

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On September 26th, a message, “Noboa: The Amazon is Not for Sale,” was projected on New York's Astor Place Tower. This reflects a growing global demand, joined by international celebrities, for Ecuador to halt its oil roadmap, which plans to offer over 50 blocks starting this year.
#futuroamazonas

🔴 International Statement on the Institutional and Political Crisis in #Ecuador

Ten human rights and civil society organizations warn of the serious risk facing judicial independence and fundamental rights in Ecuador.

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Defenders of the #AmazonRainforest
walking ancestral paths in Nemonpare, Ecuador.🦶🌳

The Amazon gives them life, and they sustain hers.

🎥 Amazon Frontlines/ Martin Kingman
🎵🗣 #Waorani Song “Ome Beye” by Nuestra Selva.

"I'm proud that my story, #WeWillBeJaguars, has found a place in so many people’s hearts & minds. Today, we celebrate the anniversary of its release in the US. Thank you to all who helped this story travel so far."

-Nemonte Nenquimo, Waorani Leader & Co-founder of Amazon Frontlines.

🏺“Clay is not just earth or mud; through it, a network of care and protection between women and territories is created.” - Yadira Ocoguaje, Siekopai leader.

Discover more about this ancestral art and its meaning — amazonfrontlines.org/chronicles/i... 🔗

Listen. 🌬🌿
This is what the lungs of Mother Earth sound like.
Indigenous Peoples and communities have been guarding, caring for, and coexisting with the #AmazonRainforest for millennia.
Their stewardship sustains the Amazon, and the Amazon sustains life for all of us. Protect it. 🎥Amazon Frontlines

#AmazonFrontlines and #CeiboAlliance
are training & equipping Indigenous communities across the Ecuadorian Amazon to help them pair their ancestral knowledge with #technology, using tools like drones, GPS, and camera traps to map and defend their rightful territories. 🛰️🌿

🛢️Abigail’s decision to fight against the expansion of the oil frontier started when she visited the places and people already touched by the #oilindustry ’s “promise of progress.” The evidence was clear: The promise of oil is a lie.

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📸 Michelle Gachet

Seven Indigenous Nations from #Pastaza Ecuador—the Achuar, Shiwiar, Kichwa, Sapara, Andwa, Waorani, and Shuar—denounce Ecuadorian President #DanielNoboa 's so-called $47B ‘Hydrocarbon Roadmap’.

🔗Read the full statement by indigenous nations, amazonfrontlines.org/chronicles/a...

🛢 5+ años después de un devastador derrame de petróleo, hoy los Kichwa se vieron obligados a reiterar su caso en un diálogo intercultural convocado lejos del territorio afectado.

Una vez más, el juez se negó a visitar el lugar del derrame.

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🤝The partnership between #AmazonFrontlines and #AlianzaCeibo shows that lasting change comes from unity: #IndigenousPeoples leading the defense of their lands, and allies standing with them—listening, learning, and supporting their struggle for cultural survival.🍃

📽 Four films directed by Amazonian filmmakers from the #AlianzaCeibo & #AmazonFrontlines community will be presented in #France at #FestivalDouarnenez on August 21 & 22! The 2025 edition of #FestivalDouarnenez, “Peoples of the Amazon”, spotlights Indigenous resistance.

🔗 festival-douarnenez.com

🌳The #Yasuní rainforest is one of the most biodiverse places on the planet. Two years ago, Ecuadorians voted to stop oil drilling there.

The government defied them. Drilling continues, but the climate victory is as important as ever

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🌿 We’re hiring: Director of Communications & Campaigns!
📍Remote, strong preference for someone based in Ecuador or the Americas.
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#AmazonFrontlines seeks a visionary and strategic Communications Director to lead and strengthen our communications strategy.

🏫Necesitan una escuela y el gobierno llegó con papel de baño. 🧻

No se repara un daño histórico con suministros improvisados. La comunidad de #Sinangoe de Ecuador exige cumplimiento total de la sentencia ya.

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Indigenous & human rights organizations denounce the Protected Areas Law as unconstitutional due to its regressive nature & lack of consultation.

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Por regresiva e inconsulta, organizaciones indígenas y de DDHH denuncian que es inconstitucional la Ley de Áreas Protegidas en #Ecuador.

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Es hora de que la Corte Constitucional del Ecuador y el juez #RichardOrtiz escuchen a las comunidades #Waorani de Pastaza EN sus territorios. Ni la Corte ni el Juez han convocado una audiencia. No han mostrado voluntad de resolver con justicia y equidad intercultural #AudienciaYa #ResistenciaWaorani

URGENT- on 24 July, President Daniel Noboa eliminated Ecuador’s Ministry of #Environment, Water, and Ecological Transition, transferring its functions to the Ministry of Energy and Mines, the institution responsible for promoting oil drilling & mining.

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Abigail Mukucham, an Achuar and Shuar woman, shared her experience of touring oil sites in northern #Ecuador.

What struck her most? Oil extraction isn’t hidden underground; it’s a deadly and dangerous operation that puts the lives of people last. ⚠️

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❗In its session on July 18th, Ecuador’s Constitutional Court did not dismiss case 1296-19-JP, which concerns the #Waorani People of Pastaza, a recently contacted people facing heightened vulnerability.

We remain vigilant to ensure the case is not dismissed.

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Leer el comunicado- tinyurl.com/46u2uxry

🚨ALERTA: El caso histórico del pueblo Waorani para proteger la Amazonía de la extracción petrolera podría ser desechado por la Corte Constitucional del #Ecuador mañana.

¡Nos unimos a lxs #Waorani e indígenas en exigir que la Corte actúe con urgencia!

🌿We’re hiring! |¡Estamos contratando!

1️⃣ Head of Digital
🌎 Remote (preferably in Ecuador)
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2️⃣Técnico/a de Educación Propia
📍 Presencial – Lago Agrio, Ecuador
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🗓 Deadline to apply/ Fecha límite: 01.08.2025