🌿 Defending the Amazon means protecting those who defend their territories and rights. Across Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru, Indigenous Peoples and human rights and environmental defenders face serious risks amid a structural crisis driven by illicit economies, extractive expansion, weak state presence, and the erosion of civic space. Between July 2024 and May 2026, #AmazonFrontlines supported 39 urgent situations of risk through its rapid-response mechanism, responding to critical gaps in existing protection systems. The report highlights why protection must go beyond individual physical security. It must be a comprehensive, collective process that includes legal, psychosocial, spiritual, digital, and community-based support. ✊🏽 Defending rights is also an act of collective organising. Protecting those who defend the Amazon is essential to safeguarding its territories, biodiversity, and peoples. 📖 Read the report: Available in Spanish, with executive summaries in both Spanish and English. 🔗amazonfrontlines.org/chronic…

📢 [Mañana] RUEDA DE PRENSA: Grave situación de personas defensoras de pueblos indígenas Amazónicos en Colombia, Ecuador y Perú: presentación de informe 🗓️Martes 20 de Octubre 10h00 📍Muxeum #Quito, Ecuador ¿Cuáles son las principales agresiones? ¿Cuáles son las medidas adecuadas para defender su labor?¿De quién es la responsabilidad de asumir esa protección? Estas preguntas recibirán respuesta de la voz de los protagonistas del informe, líderes y lideresas que han vivido el hostigamiento por su labor de defensa: ▶️ María Espinosa, defensora de DDHH - Amazon Frontlines ▶️ Indira Vargas, Vicepresidenta. de PAKKIRU. ▶️ Viviana Calapucha, Defensora territorial de Tzawata-Ila-chukapi ▶️ Fanny Kaekat Utitiaj, comunidad Maikiaunts, del pueblo Shuar. ▶️ Oswando Nenquimo, presidente de la OWAP ▶️ Freddy Piaguaje: Dirigente de la ACIPS, Pueblo Siona en el Putumayo (#Colombia) ▶️ Apu Julio Cusurichi Palacios, miembro del Consejo Directivo de AIDESEP (#Perú) Conéctate a la rueda de prensa en este enlace: bit.ly/4BlETOK Les esperamos!

What does it take to cure the wounds colonialism left behind, so Indigenous educators can teach from a place of healing? #AmazonFrontlines and @AlianzaCeibo invited more than 20 future educators on a journey of healing and learning, part of the Community-Led Education Program, recovering ancestral memory to preserve cultural identity for future generations. Their journals offer a window into healing through ancestral memory and plant medicine, confronting wounds left by colonialism, extractivism, and conventional education, and reclaiming the knowledge needed to teach future generations in the northern Ecuadorean Amazon. At the Centro Takiwasi , master plants were used in therapeutic processes and ceremonies as participants worked through these struggles. This journey is part of a bigger effort to reclaim Indigenous education. Just last week, after six years of work, the Ecuadorian government officially recognized autonomous, community-led Indigenous educational systems and curricula — a historic step toward Indigenous peoples’ right to shape education in their own territories. 🔗 amazonfrontlines.org/chronic…

“The risk is that there are now three Trump-aligned presidents in the upper Amazon and Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, is flying around trying to cut reckless deals which are essentially about the wholesale extraction of minerals from the largest rainforest on earth, home to millions of Indigenous peoples, a cradle of biodiversity, and one of the last hopes for stemming the climate crisis,” Mitch Anderson, executive director of #AmazonFrontlines. Read the article via @insideclimate News insideclimatenews.org/news/0…

Schoolchildren from Yonkers New York connected with Indigenous students from the A'i Cofán nation in the Ecuadorian Amazon to foster new relationships, learn about Indigenous knowledge, and nurture a collective responsibility to take care of our planet. They made a short educational film to share their experience and help inspire positive change in the world. This project was brought to life by Liz Bonnin as part of the National Geographic Society as part of the Explorer-Educator Exchange programme, alongside #AmazonFrontlines and #AlianzaCeibo. Storytellers, educators, Indigenous communities and NGOs came together to tell the story of what's possible when we connect and collaborate across borders and cultures for the benefit of people and nature. 📽️ youtu.be/yDZPnYXc4iw?si=8Exf…

We are seeking a Finance Director for #AmazonFrontlines. 📍 Remote within the United States, with regular schedule overlap with Ecuador and Peru and occasional travel to country offices. 🕐 Full-time position 🗣️ English required. Working Spanish is a significant advantage. The Finance Director is our senior technical finance professional and chief accountant, responsible for the books, financial statements, annual audit, US tax and regulatory compliance, treasury, and the quality of every figure we report to leadership, our Board, and our funders. This role suits a hands-on finance professional who's comfortable with a lot of data, has an eye for detail, and enjoys building structural solutions rather than patching gaps. Scope includes: • Accounting management, monthly close, and financial statement quality • Internal controls, financial policy, and delegation of authority • Annual external audit and audit readiness • US tax and regulatory compliance, including Form 990 and state filings • Treasury, banking, and payment platform administration • Financial reporting to leadership and the Board Finance Committee • Financial oversight of re-granting to partner organizations and of operations in Ecuador and Peru • Supervision of the finance team and transition of accounting functions in-house apply today -> 🔗 amazonfrontlines.org/jobs/fi…

El caso del derrame petrolero de abril de 2020, que contaminó los ríos Coca y Napo en la Amazonía ecuatoriana, ha provocado un “daño psicosocial continuo, acumulativo y multidimensional” en la calidad de vida de al menos 27 mil personas #kichwas de alrededor de 109 comunidades que fueron afectadas, mismo que persiste en el presente. Esta es solo una parte de las conclusiones que destacan en el peritaje psicosocial, presentado este 28 de agosto de 2026 ante el juez de Orellana, Clemente Ildefonso Paz Lara, y con ello se refuta el argumento de que el derrame de petróleo de abril de 2020, que ocurrió en plena pandemia por el COVID-19, haya sido un incidente transitorio o superado. Más allá del daño ambiental cuantificable, este informe técnico documenta científicamente una herida invisible: la fractura del tejido comunitario, la pérdida de la seguridad alimentaria y el trauma intergeneracional de una población que durante seis años ha vivido y sigue viviendo en estado de alerta permanente. 🔗 amazonfrontlines.org/chronic…