Amazonia

Activists and socio-environmental organisations from around the world demonstrated against the impunity of transnational oil corporation Chevron (formerly Texaco) and in solidarity with the affected Amazonian peoples and communities. It is estimated that more than 450,000 hectares of the Ecuadorian Amazon have been contaminated by crude oil and toxic waste dumped by the corporation from 1954 to 1990. In 1993,…

"How agribusiness and financial markets profit from the devastation of the world´s largest tropical forest". In this first part of a series of two audio-visual reports, Friends of the Earth Brazil unravels the forces behind the crimes that take place in Brazilian forests. In its second part, the organization analyzes, together with allied movements, the future of the affected communities…