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Publication: Amazon Watch

First reported Jun 18 2013 - Updated Jun 18 2013 - 1 reports

We Won't Stop Fighting

Facing enormous setbacks to indigenous rights in Brazil, 400 Kayapo leaders and warriors met on the Xingu River to discuss strategy for upholding their rightsJune 17, 2013 | Source: Kayapo Project, International Conservation Fund of Canada, Environmental ... [Published Amazon Watch - Jun 18 2013]

Entities: Threat, Belo Monte Dam, Brazilian Congress, Environmental Defense Fund

First reported Jun 18 2013 - Updated Jun 18 2013 - 1 reports

"Traditional Forest Knowledge Is not Folklore, but a Resource for Change"

esearchers and policymakers have a lot to learn in designing and implementing climate change adaptation strategies from smallholder farmers in the Amazon, says Miguel Pinedo-Vásquez, scientist with the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) ... [Published Amazon Watch - Jun 18 2013]

Entities: Adaptation, Global Warming/Climate Change, Agriculture, International Union of Forest Research Organiza...

First reported Jun 13 2013 - Updated Jun 13 2013 - 1 reports

Dilma Roussef

Eye on Brasília: Indigenous Resistance to Dams Persists

in the Amazon!Urge President Dilma to find a peaceful solution to the Belo Monte conflict and respect indigenous rights!Last week, indigenous groups that occupied the Belo Monte dam site and who traveled to Brasilia to meet with top representatives from ... [Published Amazon Watch - Jun 13 2013]

Entities: Brasilia, Dilma Roussef, Police

First reported Jun 11 2013 - Updated Jun 11 2013 - 1 reports

Texaco Inc

Ecuador Oil Spill Casts Shadow Over New Amazonian Drilling Plans

An oil spill from Ecuador's Trans-Andean pipeline last weekend has reached Amazonian tributaries and is wreaking havoc on local communities and ecosystems downstream.The 420,000-gallon spill came after a landslide wiped out a 100-meter stretch of the ... [Published Amazon Watch - Jun 11 2013]

Entities: Ecuador, Oil Spill, Texaco Inc

First reported Jun 07 2013 - Updated Jun 07 2013 - 1 reports

On Belo Monte, Live from Brasilia

Indigenous peoples gathered in Brasilia demand binding consultation process from governmentPeace and Respectin the Amazon!Urge President Dilma to find a peaceful solution to the Belo Monte conflict and respect indigenous rights!A new document calls for ... [Published Amazon Watch - Jun 07 2013]

Entities: Brasilia, Official Statement, Sao Luiz (Brazil), Arara (Brazil)

First reported Jun 05 2013 - Updated Jun 06 2013 - 2 reports

International Rivers Network

Indigenous Tribes Occupying Belo Monte Vow to Resist Amazon Dams

Indigenous peoples demand free, prior and informed consent following failed talks with Brazilian governmentAmazon Watch, International RiversFor more information, contact:Caroline Bennett, +1 415 487 9600, caroline@amazonwatch.orgBrent Milliken, +55 61 ... [Published Amazon Watch - Jun 06 2013]

Entities: Brasilia, Informed Consent, Tribe, Amazon Watch, International Rivers Network

First reported Jun 05 2013 - Updated Jun 05 2013 - 1 reports

Amazon Watch Fearless Founder Named Hillary Leadership Laureate

On this World Environment Day, Amazon Watch couldn't be more proud to celebrate our fearless founder and leader Atossa Soltani who has just been named the 2013 Global Hillary Leadership Laureate. From a global watch-list on leaders in mid-career whose ... [Published Amazon Watch - Jun 05 2013]

Entities: Edmund Hillary, Amazon Watch, Leadership, Climate, Anote Tong

First reported Jun 04 2013 - Updated Jun 04 2013 - 1 reports

Accompanying Servio to Chevron's "Alternate Reality"

Please help us reach our goal to support Servio's trip to confront Chevron CEO John WatsonI can't think of a better term to describe the world that the Chevron board and CEO John Watson are living in than "alternate reality." It certainly must seem that ... [Published Amazon Watch - Jun 04 2013]

Entities: John Watson, Chevron Corp, Ecuador

First reported Jun 01 2013 - Updated Jun 01 2013 - 1 reports

Forget WallyWorld, at Chevron They Live in WatsonWorld

Please help us reach our goal to support Servio's trip to confront Chevron CEO John WatsonThere are many ways to describe the experience of participating in a Chevron Annual Shareholder Meeting. One is often left wondering if those inside are as completely ... [Published Amazon Watch - Jun 01 2013]

Entities: Chevron Corp, John Watson, Ecuador, Texaco Inc, Refinery

First reported May 31 2013 - Updated May 31 2013 - 1 reports

Belo Monte Occupation Update

in the Amazon!Urge President Dilma to find a peaceful solution to the Belo Monte conflict and respect indigenous rights!A judicial eviction order and threat of violent removal notwithstanding, the Munduruku and other indigenous occupiers of the Belo Monte ... [Published Amazon Watch - May 31 2013]

Entities: Constructive Eviction, Protesters, Brazil, Roller Coaster, Brasilia

First reported May 30 2013 - Updated May 30 2013 - 1 reports

URGENT: "We will die. We will not leave without being heard."

in the Amazon!Urge President Dilma to find a peaceful solution to the Belo Monte conflict and respect indigenous rights!Only two days after the reoccupation of the Belo Monte Dam began, the fate of 170 indigenous people is at stake. Yesterday, the Federal ... [Published Amazon Watch - May 30 2013]

Entities: Belo Monte Dam, Massacre, Construction, Suspension, Shamanism

First reported May 29 2013 - Updated May 29 2013 - 1 reports

Indigenous People Occupy Belo Monte Again over Consultation Process

| Source: Xingu Alive Forever MovementPeace and Respectin the Amazon!Urge President Dilma to find a peaceful solution to the Belo Monte conflict and respect indigenous rights!About 170 indigenous people returned to occupy the main construction site of ... [Published Amazon Watch - May 29 2013]

Entities: Construction, Occupy, Hydroelectric Dams, Protesters

Quotes

Pinedo-Vásquez is speaking on "Traditional forest knowledge: An Amazonian resource for adaptation to climate change, market shifts and policies" at the Third Latin American Congress of the International Union of Forest Research Organizations (IUFRO-LA), in San José, Costa Rica, on 12–15 June

"Traditional Forest Knowledge Is not Folklore, but a Resource for Change" [Published Amazon Watch - Jun 18 2013]

Indigenous leader Josias Munduruku stated, "What kind of consultation is this when they have already made a decision that we cannot change? What then could come out of this so-called consultation?"

Eye on Brasília: Indigenous Resistance to Dams Persists [Published Amazon Watch - Jun 13 2013]

...Coca Mayor Ana Rivas told the Sonarama radio station that the spill "has left us without water because the river we take potable water from is contaminated. The people are indignant because there is no water to drink."

Ecuador Oil Spill Casts Shadow Over New Amazonian Drilling Plans [Published Amazon Watch - Jun 11 2013]

In a statement released on Tuesday, the group expressed their indignation with the talks and ongoing commitment to resist dams, "We came to Brasilia to demand the suspension of feasibility studies and the construction of dams on the Xingu, Tapajós, and Teles Pires Rivers. You are not only talking with the Mundurukú people. You are talking with Xipaya, Kayapó, Arara, Tupinambás, and with all the people who are together in this struggle, because this is a major struggle for us all. We did not bring wish lists. We are against dams. We demand the federal government's commitment to consult with us and to guarantee our right to veto projects that destroy us."

Indigenous Tribes Occupying Belo Monte Vow to Resist Amazon Dams [Published Amazon Watch - Jun 06 2013]