Amazon Watch

Amazon Watch
Founded1996
TypeNon-governmental organization
FocusEnvironmentalism
Indigenous rights
Location
Area served
Amazon Basin
Key people
Leila Salazar-Lopez, executive director
Revenue
US$ 1,485,169 (2012)
Websiteamazonwatch.org

Amazon Watch is a nonprofit organization[1] founded in 1996, and based in Oakland, California, it works to protect the rainforest and advance the rights of Indigenous peoples in the Amazon Basin. It partners with indigenous and environmental organizations in Ecuador, Peru, Colombia and Brazil in campaigns for human rights, corporate accountability and the preservation of the Amazon's ecological systems.

  1. ^ "Amazon Watch | Protecting the rainforest and our climate in solidarity with Indigenous peoples".