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As the Amazon basin is increasingly subjected to industrial natural resource extraction, its rainforests and indigenous peoples are in ever greater need of our support. Oil and gas drilling, logging, poaching, road-building, damming and mining all have highly destructive impacts on the region's precious ecosystems and the indigenous communities that have lived in harmony with its rainforests for millennia. Amazon Watch works to prevent these impacts and, when impossible to stop, to minimize them. We do this in two ways: 1. By positively influencing the policies and practices of companies currently or potentially operating in the Amazon and the public sector banks that finance them; and 2. By empowering indigenous communities confronting industrial development projects on their ancestral territories. Amazon Watch uses a range of tactics including media outreach, direct dialogue with corporate and development bank management, mobilizing shareholder pressure, legal and media capacity-building among indigenous communities, monitoring, documenting and publicizing the negative impacts of specific projects, and calling for the establishment of rainforest reserves to protect the Amazon's biodiversity and rainforest communities. In this age of global climate change, fueled in part by the deforestation of the Amazon, we believe these indigenous communities are providing a service for all humanity. We are honored and humbled to partner with them.

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Sheyla Juruna and Dam-Affected People Demonstrate Against the Belo Monte Dam.
Secoya tribal leader Humberto Piaguaje confronts Chevron at their Annual General Shareholder Meeting.
U'wa leader speaking to a class of 150 students at UC Santa Cruz.
The rainforest in the Corrientes River basin from the Achuar community of Nueva Jerusalem, right in the middle of Oil Block 1-AB.
Indigenous leaders, environmentalists and activists joined forces to spell out the message "SALVE AMAZONIA" ("Save the Amazon" in Portuguese) around the massive silhouette of an indigenous warrior taking aim with his bow and arrow

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This project is a special opportunity to DOUBLE every donation to Amazon Watch in 2011 to defend the Amazon Rainforest and Stand for the rights of Indigenous Peoples.

We all depend upon the Amazon rainforest for the air we breath and the stability of our global climate. Please “stand for the Amazon” by joining Amazon Watch on Causes.com and supporting this project.

Double every dollar that you donate between now and the end of the year as your gift will be matched up to $25,000. That's $50,000 to support the lungs of the planet and our common future.

By supporting this Cause you will help protect the rainforest and stand for the rights of indigenous peoples who have been its rightful stewards for thousands of years.

We declare December 28th, “Stand4theAmazon Day”. Join us now through the 28th – tell your friends, support this great work, double your donation and stand with us ensure this great forest thrives for generations to come.

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