Don't Drill the Amazon – Defend It!

Join us and call upon Pedro Merizalde, Ecuador's new Minister of Non-Renewable Natural Resources, to reconsider his plans to auction off the southern Ecuadorian Amazon, one of the most biodiverse places on the planet.

Tropical rainforests are a key natural defense against climate change, yet the world's rainforests are being destroyed for short-term profit and extractive industries at an alarming rate. In Ecuador, the government is proposing to keep oil in the ground beneath an 180,000-hectare swath of the Yasuní National Park, meanwhile auctioning off an area of forest over 16 times that size.

Last month, we saw the future of the Ecuadorian Amazon flash before our eyes with a massive oil spill that wreaked havoc on communities and ecosystems throughout the Amazon Basin. If the Ecuadorian government's oil round moves forward, oil spills could become a daily occurrence, threatening the sacred headwaters of the Amazon and the indigenous communities that depend on a clean and intact forest for survival.

We stand with the indigenous stewards of the Amazon in encouraging the Ecuadorian government to respect indigenous rights and find alternative solutions for development of the Ecuadorian Amazon. Our global climate and future depend on it!

Please TAKE ACTION NOW to urge the new Ecuadorian Minister of Non-Renewable Resources to respect indigenous rights and the rights of nature by not auctioning off the southern Ecuadorian Amazon.

For the Amazon,

Adam Zuckerman
Environmental and Human Rights Campaigner

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