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https://amazonwatch.org/news/2025/0408-built-to-spill-ecuadors-pipeline-disaster-and-the-fight-to-stop-the-next-one?utm_source=Amazon+Watch+Newsletter+and+Updates&utm_campaign=2937779e6a-2025-04-10-built-to-spill&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_e6f929728b-2937779e6a-421555477&mc_cid=2937779e6a&mc_eid=3a134d2ca1
#EndFossilFuels #Environment #OilSpills #Climate #AmazonWatch #OilKills
#Amazonwatch was in the #courtroom for the #SLAPP trial against @greenpeace It was a sham: biased jurors, judicial misconduct, and #erasure of #Indigenous #voices.
Read why this matters for us all.
👉 https://amazonwatch.org/news/2025/0403-big-oils-lawfare-attacks-on-advocacy-and-accountability
#StandWithStandingRock #DefendFreeSpeech
Humanity's Chance to Reverse #AmazonRainforest's Slide Toward #TippingPoint Is 'Shrinking'
The world's largest #rainforest showed "ominous indicators," including #wildfires and #ExtremeDrought, in 2024.
The Amazon, sometimes called the '#LungsOfThePlanet,' this year showed signs of further inching toward a much-feared tipping point, threatening the very existence of the world's largest rainforest.
"Rampant wildfires and extreme drought ravaged large parts of the Amazon in 2024. The fires and dry conditions were fueled by deforestation and the El Niño weather pattern, and also made worse by climate change, according to the World Economic Forum. 'The number of fires reached its highest level in 14 years this September,' the group reported in October.
"#Drought has also impacted the #AmazonRiver, causing one of the river's main tributaries to drop to its lowest level ever recorded, according to October reporting from The Associated Press. The drop in the river has negatively impacted local economies and #FoodSupplies.
"Andrew Miller, advocacy director at #AmazonWatch, told the AP last week that the fires and droughts experienced across the Amazon in 2024 'could be ominous indicators that we are reaching the long-feared ecological tipping point.'
"'Humanity's window of opportunity to reverse this trend is shrinking, but still open,' he said.
"The Amazon plays a vital role in keeping the planet healthy. 150-200 billion tons of carbon are stored in the Amazon, and it also carries 20% of the earth's fresh water to sea.
"According to the World Economic Forum, if the Amazon tipping point is reached, 'it will release billions of tonnes of #CO2 into the atmosphere through fires and plants dying off. This would further exacerbate climate change and make the 1.5°C goal impossible to achieve. It would also alter weather patterns, which would impact agricultural productivity and global food supplies.'
"A paper published in the journal Nature in February indicates that up to half of the rainforest could hit a tipping point by the middle of the century. 'We estimate that by 2050, 10% to 47% of Amazonian forests will be exposed to compounding disturbances that may trigger unexpected ecosystem transitions and potentially exacerbate regional #ClimateChange,' explained the researchers behind the paper.
"However, it wasn't all bad news out of the Amazon in 2024. According to the AP, the amount of #deforestation in #Brazil and #Colombia declined in this year. In Brazil, which houses the largest chunk of the Amazon, forest loss dropped 30.6% compared to the year prior, bringing it to the lowest level of destruction in nearly a decade.
"The improvement is an about-face from a couple of years ago, when the country registered 15-year high of deforestation during the leadership of former #FarRight President #JairBolsonaro. Brazil is now led by the left-wing President Luiz Inácio #Lula da Silva, who—despite presiding over this drop in deforestation—has also come under scrutiny, as AP noted, by #environmentalists for backing projects that they argue could harm the environment."
Source:
https://www.commondreams.org/news/amazon-rainforest-tipping-point-2024
#ClimateCatastrophe #EnvironmentalEmergency #SouthAmerica #SaveTheForests
The #documentary film that I'm featured in is now available for #free viewing:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Rb4q_dXo7Bw
It includes footage & shared #deforestation issues with the #Amazon. It's all connected.
I'm holding back tears near the end of it. I was arrested a few days after doing the documentary film interview at gate to River & Landback resistance camps.
#DocFilms #EcoFlix #FreeDocumentary #DirectAction #ClimateAction #blockade #FairyCreekBlockade #Comrades #CorporateMercenaries #BritishColumbia #StopDeforestation #StopEcocide #SaveOldGrowth #WorthMoreStanding #VancouverIsland #PortRenfrew #VanIsle #PacificNorthwest #Activists #Protest #TreesOverGreed #PNW #StandEarth #EcoJustice #AbolishRCMPCIRG #BCpoli #BCNewDeathParty #BCForestryReform #FuckTheBCGovernment #CDNpoli #BigotsWithBadges #KKKanada #ACAB #BritishColumbia #ColonialResistance #FuckTheRCMP #FlashbackFriday #AmazonWatch
These efforts, including a proposed amendment to #Brazil 's Constitution that would legalize Marco Temporal, threaten to undermine #IndigenousLandRights and accelerate environmental destruction in the #Amazon.
As Brazil stands at a crossroads, the international community’s support and vigilance are crucial in ensuring that Indigenous rights are upheld and the Amazon rainforest is preserved for future generations.
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The Brazilian Senate is trying to push through a radical change to the country’s Constitution that would strip many #IndigenousPeoples of the right to their #AncestralLands.
In collaboration with #agribusiness and #mining interests, the Senate is rushing to nullify Indigenous land rights before going on vacation, bypassing normal congressional process and debate.
#Brazil 🇧🇷
@MarkBrigham And for those NOT familiar with #StevenDonziger...
Steven Donziger, Lawyer Targeted by #Chevron, Appeals to #Biden for #Pardon
by Jessica Corbett
Mar 20, 2024
"A pardon would bring a measure of justice to a prosecution that has been widely criticized as a violation of international law... and as a grave threat to #FreeSpeech,' said 14 attorneys backing the #ClimateJustice lawyer's request.
"After exhausting his options in the judicial system, American attorney Steven Donziger on Wednesday launched a campaign seeking a pardon from U.S. President Joe Biden for his #misdemeanor conviction—the result of a process that experts worldwide have condemned as retaliatory for his climate justice work and an abuse of the nation's judiciary.
"'No matter where one stands on the political spectrum, we should all be able to agree that what happened to me in the United States should not happen to anybody in any country that adheres to the rule of law,' Donziger said in a statement announcing a letter to Biden signed by 14 prominent lawyers and a leader at the advocacy group #AmazonWatch.
"''#Corporations should not be allowed to take direct control of a public prosecution from the government and lock up their critics, as happened to me,' asserted Donziger, who spent 993 days in federal prison and on house arrest. 'It's an outrageous abuse of power that not only wrecked me and my family's life for three years but also embarrassed our country in the eyes of the world.'"
and the #people who live there.
The company’s efforts are the same #SLAPP suit strategy used by corporations in the U.S. and Europe, with even more chilling consequences in #Brazil. Amazon Watch is no stranger to being targeted in this way, which is why we are a part of the #ProtectTheProtest Task Force to stand together with allies fighting back against legal bullying. These tactics only serve to strengthen our resolve.
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of the #Amazon ’s Xingu River, the company seeks to criminalize #AmazonWatch, its partners at #InternationalRivers and #MovimentoXinguVivo, and local community representatives whose way of life is imperiled by the mine.
This region has already suffered massive impacts from the construction of the #BeloMonte mega-dam. Belo Sun’s opponents understand that the company’s plans would destroy what remains of a critically important and unique #ecosystem with dire implications for the #rainforest
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Demand the Protection of Ecuador’s Last Isolated Indigenous Peoples! | Please take action with #AmazonWatch https://amazonwatch.org/take-action/defend-the-rights-of-indigenous-peoples-in-voluntary-isolation?utm_source=Amazon+Watch+Newsletter+and+Updates&utm_campaign=82cc429992-2019-04-25-blk%2B_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_e6f929728b-82cc429992-339906342&mc_cid=82cc429992&mc_eid=46c2706e39
Demand the Protection of Ecuador’s Last Isolated Indigenous Peoples! | Please take action with #AmazonWatch https://amazonwatch.org/take-action/defend-the-rights-of-indigenous-peoples-in-voluntary-isolation?utm_source=Amazon+Watch+Newsletter+and+Updates&utm_campaign=e4470543e3-2019-04-25-blk%2B_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_e6f929728b-e4470543e3-339906342&mc_cid=e4470543e3&mc_eid=46c2706e39
The imposition of land-grabbing laws will directly threaten the safety of #communities in affected territories, increase the risk of further resource #exploitation, and exacerbate #ClimateChange.
#TheWrongAmazonIsBurning #Amazon #StandUpForForests #ProtectOurWildlife 🦜
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With support from #AmazonWatch, a delegation of #Munduruku leaders and representatives traveled to #Brasília to attend the Supreme Court ruling to voice their opposition, protest against the #Ferrogrão, and defend their constitutional rights.
“The railroad could be the end of the line for the #Amazon,” according to Alessandra Munduruku and #ChiefJuarezSoares.
Stop the Legalization of Land-Grabbing in Brazil! Please take action with #AmazonWatch https://amazonwatch.org/take-action/stop-the-legalization-of-land-grabbing-in-brazil?utm_source=Amazon+Watch+Newsletter+and+Updates&utm_campaign=5e4893a8c6-2019-04-25-blk%2B_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_e6f929728b-5e4893a8c6-339906342&mc_cid=5e4893a8c6&mc_eid=46c2706e39
Join the Call: Human Rights Over Corporate Profits in Ecuador! | #AmazonWatch https://amazonwatch.org/take-action/join-the-call-human-rights-over-corporate-profits-in-ecuador?utm_source=Amazon+Watch+Newsletter+and+Updates&utm_campaign=4518ef3409-2019-04-25-blk%2B_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_e6f929728b-4518ef3409-339906342&mc_cid=4518ef3409&mc_eid=46c2706e39
Major UN #Biodiversity Deal Recognizes #IndigenousRights But Lacks Critical Enforcement Measures
"The landmark agreement seeks to halt the Earth’s 6th major #MassExtinction event, & #IndigenousCommunities will have an increased role in protecting #wildlife as part of the deal. For more on the historic agreement, we speak with #LeilaSalazarLópez of #AmazonWatch & #ErielTchekwieDeranger with #IndigenousClimateAction."
#COP15 #IndigenousPeoples #FirstNations #DemocracyNow
https://www.democracynow.org/2022/12/21/almost_all_countries_in_the_world
What to Know Now That the N.Y.P.D. Is on Amazon’s Neighborhood Watch App
https://www.nytimes.com/article/nypd-ring-app-surveillance.html?smid=url-share
The nation’s largest police force recently joined the Ring Neighbors app and can now enlist the help of the city’s residents in investigations. Critics say it could lead to racial profiling. #amazon #amazonwatch
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