Amazon Watch works with indigenous and environmental organisations 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 Amazon Watch’s programmes include:
- Amazon Communications Team – equipping Amazonian indigenous groups with media skills and communications tools in order to increase their capacity to defend their lands from destructive mega-projects
- Monitoring Mega-Projects – documenting and disseminating information on the social and environmental impacts of proposed mega-projects in the Amazon basin
- Supporting Rainforest Peoples – mobilising technical, financial, legal and public relations support for indigenous organisations fighting destructive mega-projects.