Amazon Watch
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| Founded | 1996 |
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| Type of business | Non-governmental organization |
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| ID | 1279401 |
About Amazon Watch
Amazon Watch is a nonprofit organization founded in 1996, and based in Oakland, California, it works to protect the rainforest and advance the rights of indigenous peoples in the Amazon Basin.
Goldman Prize honours indigenous woman who stopped mining giant
... With the help of the Coalition of Indigenous Peoples of Brazil (APIB) and pressure groups Amazon Watch and Greenpeace, Alessandra drafted an open letter calling for Anglo American to withdraw the permits to conduct mining research inside indigenous territories in the Brazilian Amazon...
Climate change: the Amazon-oil-boom under fire at the UN talks
... oil production in the Amazon was associated with serious environmental problems The region is home to about 500,000 indigenous people from 20 nationalities, and is a hotspot of biodiversity But a report that says the action group, Amazon Watch, that Ecuador and Peru are active to extend to the planning, extraction and auction of new oil blocks in the area...
Amazon fires: What's the latest in Brazil?
... The fires in the Amazon might have slowed after Brazil s firefighting response, but this short-term response is not enough, says Christian Poirier, programme director of US-based non-profit group Amazon Watch...
