Amazon Watch
WebsiteOakland, CA

Founding Year: 1996

Staff: 34

Budget: $4m (2019)

Leila Salazar-López (Executive Director)

A nonprofit organization working to “protect the rainforest and advance the rights of indigenous peoples in the Amazon Basin. It partners up with “indigenous and environmental organizations in campaigns for human rights, corporate accountability, and the preservation of the Amazon’s ecological systems.”

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Amazon Watch contributes to the following Sustainable Development Goals


  Organization Type

Non Profit

  Geographic Foci

Biomes|Forest

 Subjects

Indigenous Peoples

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