Amazon Watch
Amazon Watch Mission:
To work with indigenous and environmental organizations in the Amazon Basin to defend the environment and advance indigenous peoples’ rights in the face of large-scale industrial development – oil and gas pipelines, power lines, roads and other mega-projects.
Some of the Amazon Watch programs include:
Amazon Communications Team
Equipping Amazonian indigenous groups with media skills and communications tools in order to increase their capacity to defend there lands from destructive mega-projects.
Mega-Projects
Documenting and disseminating information on the social and environmental impacts of proposed mega-projects in the Amazon Basin.
Supporting Rainforest Peoples
Mobilizing technical, financial, legal and public relations support for indigenous organizations fighting destructive mega-projects.
Visit Amazon Watch to learn more, volunteer or to make a donation to their ongoing work.
Expedition Amazonas and Amazon Watch
The expedition has partnered with Amazon Watch to put it simply, lend a hand. To put a world-wide focus on their work in the Amazon Basin. Undertakings that have impacts far beyond the jungle, far beyond country borders. The issues that Amazon Watch tackle exist on a global level. Displacement of populations through conflict, deforestation through unchecked development, environmental pollution from mega-projects and of course everyone’s favourite punch line - “climate change”.
Expedition Amazonas is helping bring attention to these events in one of the earth’s most important and vulnerable regions. Highlighting a need for a balance between global, sustainable development and the protection of the earth’s natural environment, along with its most at risk populations.
Throughout the expedition the team is leaving the river to meet with, interview and film local representatives of Amazon Watch and current projects. Excerpts from these forays are posted to the expedition website on a regular basis.
Thomas Cavanagh:
“Our partnership with the Expedition Amazonas is an obvious one. The expedition’s aims, values and characteristics mirror those of Amazon Watch - an ongoing struggle to overcome seemingly insurmountable obstacles, with success being the only option. Their help to highlight the work of AW in the Amazon region is both welcome and highly valued. We wish them success and good fortune and look forward to regular contact with them over the course of the expedition”.
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