Founded | 1996 |
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Type | Non-governmental organization |
Focus | Environmentalism Indigenous rights |
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Area served | Amazon Basin |
Key people | Leila Salazar-Lopez, executive director |
Revenue | US$ 1,485,169 (2012) |
Website | amazonwatch.org |
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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.