Amazon Frontlines

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It started with water And community. A Letter from Our Founders We started Amazon Frontlines alongside diverse Indigenous peoples and international allies with the goal of securing access to clean water for 85 Indigenous communities affected by oil contamination at the headwaters of the rainforest. We accomplished this and immediately set out to do more. Over the last 13 years, Amazon Frontlines has become many things: a defender of human rights, a promoter of Indigenous autonomy and empowerment, a driver for conservation, a protector of biodiversity, and an organizer of formidable movements. Our action is focused on the Amazon and our purpose is focused on our planet. We unite peoples and p | Our story Begins with a question. How can we – people raised in the cities of western civilization – best support the struggles of indigenous peoples? LIVING downriver from oil operations, polluting their freshwater to fuel the automobiles of our civilization... DEFENDING their rainforest territo

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