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BREAKING: Hundreds of Global Artists and Cultural Influencers Support Historic Indigenous Declaration Demanding Bold Action to Protect the Amazon at #COP30
#CrimateCrisis #DefendTheAmazon #AmazoniaCalling #IndigenousRights

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Hundreds of Global Artists and Cultural Influencers Support Historic Indigenous Declaration Demanding Bold Action to Protect the Amazon at COP30 | Amazon Watch
The peaceful protest was a powerful statement from Indigenous and traditional communities about the impacts of Brazil’s grain export corridors on rivers, fisheries, territories, and local livelihoods.
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November 10, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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The rainforest is at a dangerous tipping point. Indigenous Peoples are protecting life in the Amazon. It’s time for the world to stand with them. Add your name to support the call at #COP30 to declare Indigenous lands free from all extraction.

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Indigenous women from Brazil
November 6, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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This should scare the sh*t out of you. #EndDeforestation #DefendTheAmazon #ClimateCrisis www.socioambiental.org/en/noticias-...
The Amazon could lose 2,9 billion tons of carbon by 2030 without protecting Indigenous Lands and Protected Areas | ISA
RAISG scientists point out, heading into COP30, that protecting the most preserved forests in the Amazon is crucial to curbing global warming.
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October 28, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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The real risk isn’t only external. It’s perceptual. Once outsiders frame Indigenous lands as “unused” or “available”... the floodgates open. Extraction begins with narratives.
Perception is protection. 🌿

#EpistemicJustice #IndigenousKnowledge #DefendTheAmazon
October 23, 2025 at 9:39 AM
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Trump isn't the only president threatening life on Earth. Lemme introduce you to Ecuador's new President Noboa - he wants to DRILL FOR MORE OIL IN THE AMAZON AND VIOLATE INDIGENOUS RIGHTS TO DO IT! (Don't worry, we won't let him.) #resist #DefendTheAmazon apnews.com/article/oil-...
Indigenous groups criticize Ecuador’s $47 billion oil expansion plan in Amazon
Ecuador’s plans to offer dozens of blocks of land for oil exploration for more than $47 billion has prompted opposition from seven Indigenous peoples in the Amazon.
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September 24, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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#ClimateJustice #TerritoryIsLife #DefendTheAmazon #GlobalSolidarity #ForestJustice #StandWithIndigenousPeoples #ClimateAction
Photo of Oswaldo Muca speaking at a podium. Quote reads “As Indigenous Peoples of the great Amazon Basin, we reaffirm our commitment to care for life and nature. We need a better future for our children and grandchildren. We welcome the adoption of the MAPI and call for: legal security for our territories; recognition of our Indigenous knowledge systems; government-to- government coordination to build consensus; and territories free from oil and mining exploitation." Quote attribution to Oswaldo Muca, coordinator general of OPIAC. Arrow icon in bottom right corner. Photo of Gisela Hurtado at ACTO, standing in front of a banner for the event. Quote reads “It is up to Brazil, which will host COP30 in November, to take responsibility for presenting more ambitious proposals for the progressive phase-out of fossil fuels and for the creation of exclusion zones for extractive activities, in alignment with the unified demand of Indigenous Peoples and civil society, presented during the Presidential Summit. The future of the forest, its peoples, and the planet depends on the decisions we make now." Quote attribution to Gisela Hurtado, Senior Amazonía Campaigner, Stand.earth”
September 19, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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BREAKING: Indigenous Nations of Ecuador and Peru Reject Cross-Border Oil Deal, Urge California to End Amazon Crude Imports.

"This deal has no consent, no legitimacy, and will face legal and social resistance every step of the way."

#EndAmazonCrude #DefendTheAmazon

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Indigenous Nations of Ecuador and Peru Reject Cross-Border Oil Deal, Urge California to End Amazon Crude Imports | Amazon Watch
“This deal has no consent, no legitimacy, and will face legal and social resistance every step of the way.”
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August 19, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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BREAKING: Brazil’s partial veto of the “#DevastationBill” stops some setbacks but leaves critical loopholes that threaten Indigenous land rights & environmental protections ahead of #COP30.

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Brazil’s Partial Veto of “Devastation Bill” Stops Some Setbacks, but Critical Loopholes Remain | Amazon Watch
“This soy doesn’t feed our people. We don’t eat soy – it’s for export and corporate profit. Meanwhile, pesticides contaminate our water, our soil, and even the rain. It’s poisoning all of us, not just...
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August 8, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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You Can’t Kill a River

As the Amazon prepares to host COP30, the world must hear this message: you cannot kill a river. A forest is worth more than gold. And the peoples of the Xingu will not be silenced.

#StopBeloSun #DefendTheAmazon #EyeOnTheAmazon

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You Can’t Kill a River | Amazon Watch
In the Volta Grande do Xingu, the river still runs. Even with turbines and licenses strangling it, the Xingu endures because the peoples who protect it refuse to disappear.
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July 24, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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PLEASE ACT NOW! We can stop this if we fight together. #DefendTheAmazon #SupportIndigenousPeoples
July 22, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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"Fossil fuels are pushing the Amazon closer to collapse."

#Keepitinthegound #DefendTheAmazon #IndigenousRights #EndAmazonCrude

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The Amazon at Risk: Why Fossil Fuel Expansion and Exploration Must End Now
To defend the planet against the climate crisis, the use of fossil fuels must cease. With COP30 approaching, here’s why global action matters now.
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June 6, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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Waorani elder Omanca Enqueri has spent decades resisting oil exploitation in the Amazon. Now she's speaking out to protect her homelands once more.

The Amazon is not for sale!

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#DefendTheAmazon #IndigenousRights
June 3, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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Good News Friday: Amazonian communities in Peru rejoice as plan for oil drilling on ancestral land stalls

"The outcome underscores the mounting legal, environmental and reputational risks deterring investors from Amazon oil development."

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Amazonian communities in Peru rejoice as plan for oil drilling on ancestral land stalls
Peru’s state-run oil company failed to attract any bids to develop an oil field that overlaps ancestral territories of several Indigenous groups
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May 16, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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Really good video:

Explore the relationship between the Amazon rainforest and the rest of the planet, and what would happen if it disappeared.

#DefendTheAmazon #EndDeforestation #EndFossilFuels #ProtectIndigenousRights

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What would happen if the Amazon Rainforest disappeared? - Anna Rothschild
YouTube video by TED-Ed
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January 28, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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Humanity's Chance to Reverse Amazon's Slide Toward Tipping Point Is 'Shrinking'

The world's largest rainforest showed "ominous indicators," including wildfires and extreme drought, in 2024.

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Humanity's Chance to Reverse Amazon's Slide Toward Tipping Point Is 'Shrinking' | Common Dreams
The world's largest rainforest showed "ominous indicators," including wildfires and extreme drought, in 2024.
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January 1, 2025 at 5:36 PM