2002 Annual Report Amazon Watch Table of Contents

Message from the Executive Director 3

Mission & Programs 4

Program Achievements 5

Monitoring Mega-Projects 6

Geographic Focus Map 7

Supporting Rainforest Peoples 8

Influencing Investors 10

Amazon Communications Team 11

2002 Financial Statement 12

Amazon Watch Staff & Board 13

Acknowledgements 14

Volunteers, Collaborators & Allies 15

Cover Photo: The Panacocha Lagoon, pink dol- phin habitat in the Ecuadorian Amazon - 2002 Message From the Executive Director

t the core of Amazon Watch’s mission, are We organized investigative missions to the Amazon Athese basic realizations: The fate of the Earth’s and accompanied delegations of affected peoples wild places and indigenous peoples depends on to the U.S. the actions that we take or don’t take in our life- time. The Amazon, with 40 percent of the Earth’s We publicized how the Bush administration and remaining rainforests, serves a vital role in our the U.S. energy industry are teaming up to increase planet’s life support system. And, the forest’s oil and gas prospecting and exploitation in the indigenous inhabitants—the Amazon’s true Amazon, now identified as strategic to U.S. energy guardians, are engaged in critical initiatives to needs. We documented how a new wave of oil defend their lives, lands and cultures. concessions and their associated network of pipelines and roads pose a serious threat to the Despite daunting battles, these courageous and heart of the Amazon rainforest. caring people empower and inspire us each time we join together to fight for a river, a rainforest, or We delivered first hand information on emerging a community. More than ever, the indigenous peo- threats and enlisted the support of many interna- ples of the Amazon have come to trust and count tional advocacy organizations on priority cam- on Amazon Watch’s support. paigns. Our initiatives also benefited from the par- ticipation of celebrities and inspiring activists such In 2002, Amazon Watch’s seventh year, we worked as Martin Sheen, Esai Morales, Julia Butterfly Hill, hard to bring the voices of distant indigenous com- Cary Elwes, Joe Kane, and John Seed. munities to the doorstep of international decision- makers. In 2002, Amazon Watch established an office in the San Francisco Bay Area and launched a new cam- We partnered with indigenous and environmental paign to force ChevronTexaco to clean up the mas- organizations in Ecuador, Peru, Colombia, Brazil, sive contamination it left behind in the Ecuadorian and Bolivia to protect intact forest frontiers and Amazon. indigenous peoples’ territories. We drew main- stream media attention to previously unreported The following pages provide a snapshot of Amazon issues such as the OCP pipeline in Ecuador and the Watch’s major achievements in the past year. Camisea project in the Peru. The staff and board of Amazon Watch sincerely With your support, we celebrated several impor- thank you, our supporters, for your encourage- tant milestones. Occidental Petroleum abandoned ment and financial support. We invite you to con- plans to drill for oil on the U’wa people’s sacred tinue your involvement in the coming year. There lands in Colombia; while OPIC, a U.S. government is so much to be done. To protect the Amazon’s agency, cancelled a $200 million loan to Enron for endangered ecosystems and indigenous peoples, the Bolivia-Cuiaba pipeline. we need your ongoing support and involvement.

These victories send a clear message to investors Thank you for caring for the planet. involved in other oil and gas projects in pristine areas. We were delighted that the Ecuadorian gov- For the Earth and Future Generations, ernment once again postponed auctions for new oil concessions that cover some 5 millions acres of intact rainforest and encompass the territories of our partners, the Shuar, Achuar and Zapara peo- ples.

At the request of local communities, Amazon Watch delivered support directly to the front lines in form of computer and camera equipment, Atossa Soltani media and communications training, and funding. Founder and Executive Director Mission Statement

mazon Watch works in partnership with forest peoples in the Amazon Ato defend their rights and protect the environment. We investigate and challenge industrial projects that threaten pristine Amazon rainforests, and work to strengthen and support forest peoples’ organizations.

Programs

Amazon Watch has four key programs:

Monitoring Mega-Projects. Track, investigate, and publicize controversial mega- projects in early planning stages to catalyze local and international response.

Supporting Rainforest Peoples. Mobilize direct support to affected communities and generate media and public attention to pressure key decision-makers.

Influencing Investors. Pressure financial institutions and corporations to shift their investments out of projects that are destructive and into more sustainable alter- natives.

Amazon Communication Team. Provide media and communications training and equipment to increase the capacity of our Amazonian partners to defend their rights.

Page 4 Achievements Monitoring Mega-Projects

sing our extensive Latin American networks, Amazon Watch also conducted the following investiga- UAmazon Watch monitors controversial Latin tive missions during 2002: American resource extraction and infrastructure projects that are in the early planning stages. Our priority is to iden- Assessing Impacts of Peru’s Camisea Project: At tify decision-makers and key decision points. Based on this the request of local groups, Amazon Watch brought research, Amazon Watch publishes timely project profiles, together experts and conducted field missions to eval- action alerts, news releases, and directs campaign uate the environmental and social impacts of the mas- resources to where they can have the most impact. sive Camisea fossil fuel project. We brought attention to the threats facing Machiguenga communities as Major Achievements in 2002: well as the vulnerable and isolated populations who shun all contact with the outside world. U.S. Tracking Energy Sector Trends: Amazon Watch identi- Government’s Export Import Bank (Ex-Im) is consid- fied and analyzed the following broad trends in the energy ering a loan for drilling in the Indigenous Reserve. industry in the Amazon region: Exposed Unethical Company Conduct To • Increased oil exploration and production in Ecuador and Financiers: Amazon Watch documented oil compa- Peru in territories of isolated and vulnerable indigenous nies’ harmful activities including Pluspetrol and Hunt populations and in national parks Oil’s practice of sending search parties to forcibly • Increased oil exports from the Andean/Amazon for con- seek uncontacted indigenous groups in the area of sumption in U.S. West Coast markets. the gas concession. Our monitoring reports were sent regularly to the Ex-Im Bank, Inter-American • Proposed pipelines in Rondonia and Amazonas states of Development Bank (IDB), Andean Development the Brazilian Amazon Corporation (CAF) and Citigroup. • Plans for gas shipments in form of Liquified Natural Gas (LNG) to U.S. markets from Bolivia and Peru Field Investigation of Impacts of the Cuiabá pipeline: Amazon Watch joined our Bolivian part- Pivotal Energy Companies: Amazon Watch closely fol- ners in an investigative delegation to the lowed the activities of U.S. companies: Halliburton, El Chiquitano Forest to document the social and Paso, Hunt Oil, Enron, Occidental Petroleum, environmental impacts in the aftermath of Burlington Resources, and ChevronTexaco. the Bolivia-Cuiaba pipeline. The delega- tion gathered documentation showing Threats on the Horizon: Amazon Watch that the pipeline has opened up the researched and tracked proposed oil and gas Chiquitano to rampant logging investments including: Bolivia’s Pacific and mining. We prepared a Liquid Natural Gas (LNG) project, New report and video document- oil pipelines between Ecuador-Peru, ing the project’s long- Bolivia’s Gasyrg and Yabog pipelines, term consequences to and Ecuador’s proposed oil explo- serve as a case ration concessions covering study for similar nearly five million acres. projects.

Page 6 THE FOCUS OF AMAZON WATCH’S MONITORING & ADVOCACY PROGRAMS

1. Ecuador: New oil drilling in protected areas of lowland rainforests (Yasuni, Cuyabeno, Limoncocha, Pañacocha). 2. Ecuador: OCP pipeline route through Andean montane cloud forests (Mindo Nambillo, Guayllabamba Basin Reserve). 3. Ecuador: a) Oil Exploration in Achuar / Shuar Territories in pristine Southern Amazon rainforests. b) Oil exploration concessions (9th round) in pristine southern lowland rainforests. 4. Peru: Camisea Gas field & pipelines in isolated indigenous peoples’ reserves in intact Southwestern Amazon rainforest. 5. Peru: Cleanup of contamination in block 1AB and new oil exploration and drilling in block 64, territories of Achuar People. 6. Bolivia: Bi-Oceanic Highway and new gas pipelines through Chiquitano Forest (Dry Tropical) & Pantanal Wetlands. 7. Bolivia: Pacific LNG pipeline to export gas to the U.S, and also Gasyrg and Yabog pipeline expansion proj- ects through Chaco forests. 8. Brazil: Urucu-Porto Velho & Urucu-Manaus gas pipelines through isolated indigenous peoples’ area in intact lowland rainforests. 9. Brazil: Belo Monte hydroelectric dam on the Xingu River to flood tropical forests and affect indigenous reserves. 10. Brazil: An industrial waterway for shipping grains is proposed for Tocantins and Araguaia Rivers. 11. Colombia: Oil exploration in the U’wa Indigenous territory in the Cordillera Oriental Montane Forest. Page 7 Supporting Rainforest Peoples

mazon Watch assists front line communities through campaigns, technical and financial support. In 2002, we closely Acoordinated our efforts with our partners, specifically with the Achuar, Shuar, Zapara, the U’wa, the Chiquitano, and the Machiguenga peoples. We also formed alliances with communities and environmental organizations in vulnerable areas. Our campaigns enabled indigenous and local peoples to directly confront and engage international decision-makers such as shareholders, corporate executives, government officials, and financiers.

Achievements in 2002:

ECUADOR Supported Local Resistance to the New Oil Pipeline in Ecuador. Amazon Watch directed funding, equipment, train- ing, and generated media coverage in support of local communities affected by the OCP pipeline. Along with groups in Germany, Australia, and Canada, we focused public attention on the financiers of the pipeline. Amazon Watch helped commission two independent studies that documented the project’s failure to adhere to the minimum environmental stan- dards set by the World Bank or those of OCP’s main financier, the German Bank WestLB.

Shined International Spotlight on Ecuador. In July 2002, Amazon Watch accompanied the celebrated environmen- talist Julia ‘Butterfly’ Hill to Ecuador to express solidarity for anti-OCP activists. She visited local residents who had led protests and tree sits in the Mindo cloud forest reserve. Ms. Hill’s arrest during a peaceful demonstration in Quito and her subsequent deportation shone the international spotlight on the OCP project and the environmental destruction in the Amazon being perpetrated by North American oil companies.

Launched Clean Up Ecuador Campaign. Amazon Watch visited Ecuador in September 2002 to strategize with local partner groups about the newly created Clean Up Ecuador campaign focused on ChevronTexaco. Corporate accounta- bility, cleanup and community reparations form the main goals of the campaign which seeks solutions to the toxic legacy the company left behind after 20 years of oil drilling in the Ecuadorian Amazon. In December 2002, Amazon Watch launched the campaign timed with the U.S. visit of indigenous and community leaders from affected communities.

PERU Accompanied Communities Affected by the Camisea Project. Amazon Watch publicized the Camisea project’s impacts and accompanied delegations of people affected to Washington D.C. to meet with the project’s potential financiers including ExIm Bank, the IDB, and Citigroup. Decision-makers heard first hand about the project’s serious impacts. Project loans to Hunt Oil and Pluspetrol were subsequently delayed and Citigroup withdrew from the project. Strengthened Communities Affected by the Camisea Project. At the request of Peruvian partner groups, in August Amazon Watch helped convene workshops for local environmental and indigenous organizations in preparing for public hearings held by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) on the Camisea Project. The workshop provided insight into IDB’s policies and offered our Peruvian and Bolivian partner groups a space for exchanging experiences in dealing with pipeline projects.

Page 8 BOLIVIA Challenged Financing for New Gas Pipelines in Bolivia. Amazon Watch faciliated meetings for our Bolivian partner groups with the Inter-American Development Bank in Washington, D.C. to dissuade the bank from financ- ing new gas pipelines in Bolivia, in particular, Enron’s projects. We also held meetings with OPIC and presented information on the environmental and social impacts from the Bolivia-Cuiaba project.

COLOMBIA Publicized the U’wa People’s Story. Amazon Watch continued to support the U’wa people of Colombia in their valiant efforts to defend their territories and culture from oil drilling. We translated and disseminated U’wa commu- niqués and kept the U’wa story-–in particular the news of Occidental Petroleum’s withdrawal from the U’wa land-- in the international spotlight. We helped raise and channel funds directly to the U’wa for land recuperation and travel. Amazon Watch accompanied the U’wa on their US visits and recruited Hollywood celebrities in their support.

Informed OXY’s Shareholders on Company Abuses. Amazon Watch attended OXY’s May 2002 Annual Shareholder Meeting and held public rallies to bring attention to the company’s role in Colombia’s conflicts. We questioned OXY exec- utives on the company’s environmental and human rights abuses in Colombia and in northern Peru. OXY announced its withdrawal from the U’wa Peoples’ land at their AGM.

Exposed the Chain of Complicity in Violence. Amazon Watch defended human rights in Colombia by exposing the complicity between U.S. military aid, Occidental Petroleum, the Colombian military and other armed groups behind mas- sacres and abuses of indigenous peoples. In March 2002, we published a report entitled Civil Conflict and Indigenous Peoples in Colombia that examines how the location of Colombia’s lucrative oil reserves beneath indigenous territories has increas- ingly put indigenous peoples directly in the crossfire of Colombia’s civil war. We also organized an U’wa delegation to Washington D.C. as part of the National Mobilization on Colombia in April 2002. Workshops, rallies and action alerts served to educate U’wa supporters about the human rights crisis being perpetuated by more U.S. military aid.

BRAZIL Investigated New Pipelines in the Brazilian Amazon. Amazon Watch embarked on a field mission to the communi- ties that would be affected by the proposed Urucu-Porto Velho gas pipeline to gather information and coordinate campaign strategies with local groups. The trip included visits to the Solimões gas plant and the town of Coari, which is heavily affect- ed by the existing Coari-Manaus pipeline. In Porto Velho, we met with indigenous organizations who are concerned about the uncontacted indigenous groups who will be affected by the new pipeline’s route. Following the trip, we presented our concerns to the project sponsors, the US-based company, El Paso Gas and Petrobras (Brazilian state-owned oil company) and warned them of the growing international opposition to the project.

Page 9 Influencing Investors

orth American investors and energy markets are Enron Pipeline Loan Cancelled. After 30 months Na major driving force behind the proliferation of of pressure by Amazon Watch and our allies, OPIC new oil and gas mega-projects in the Amazon. cancelled a $200 million loan to Enron for the Amazon Watch questions Bolivia-Cuiaba pipeline in the Chiquitano Dry Forest. the economic rationale We provided for fossil fuel exploitation detailed information that for the past 30 years about Enron’s non- has left massive contami- compliance with nation, cultural disinte- loan conditions. Our gration, violent conflict efforts contributed to and escalating debt a front-page exposé throughout the Amazon. on the pipeline in the We challenge interna- Washington Post in tional financial institu- May 2002. tions, private banks and Roberto Perez, U’wa President, Speaks at Oxy corporations to consider Ecuador’s OCP Annual Meeting the ecological and social Pipeline Delayed. Activists from Mindo stage a tree-sit in protest of the OCP Pipeline. risks of drilling in pristine or culturally sensitive rain- Amazon Watch pro- forests. Amazon Watch also monitors the projects vided critical support to local communities opposed and policies of international financial institutions like to Ecuador’s new OCP pipeline. The campaign gen- the World Bank and the Inter-American erated significant international media attention and Development Bank. We call on these institutions to resulted in $300 million in cost overruns, and sever- end lending to industrial projects in sensitive forests. al months’ delay in the construction schedule. The When necessary, we intervene to block financing for project has became a lightening rod for criticism harmful projects. focused on the German bank, WestLB which has since committed to adopt stronger policies. Major Achievements in 2002: Citibank Pulls out of the Camisea Fossil Fuel Occidental Petroleum Leaves U’wa Land. After Project. Amazon Watch worked directly with affect- nearly ten years of resistance led by the U’wa people ed communities to monitor the Camisea oil and gas and backed project in the Peruvian Amazon. Through extensive by Amazon research, analysis, documentation, we coordinated Watch and an international campaign focused on the issue. supporters Results at the end of 2002 were: a six-month delay in around the the approval process of the project’s loan by the world, in Inter-American Development Bank and ExIm Bank; May 2002, and the announcement by Citigroup, the Camisea Occidental project’s financial advisor that Citibank withdrew Petroleum from the project in late 2002. pulled out of the U’wa Urucu Pipelines Suspended. One of two gas land in pipelines proposed for the Brazilian Amazon, the northeast- Coari-Manaus pipeline, was suspended indefinitely as ernTexaco’s toxic legacy in the Ecuadorian Amazon a result of a pressure campaign led by Brazilian and Colombia. international environmental organizations. The envi- The Colombian Government continues to look for ronmental license for a second pipeline, the Urucu- other investors to take over the oil concession. Porto Velho, was first approved and then suspended Amazon Watch remains vigilant in support of the due to public outrage and pending further review of U’wa people. deficient environmental impact studies.

Page 10 Amazon Communications Team

o enable our local partners to effectively reach Tinternational allies, decision-makers, and their own communities, the Amazon Communications Team (ACT) delivers cameras, computers, and 2- way radio equipment as well as facilitates training in media, public outreach, and campaign strategies. Since the program’s inception four years ago, Amazon Watch has provided more than $200,000 in equipment and funding to our partners. Achievements in 2002:

Financial and Technical Support

During the year, the Amazon Communications Team transferred nearly $13,500 in communications equipment (laptops, radios, cameras, field / rain Team members deliver much needed equipment and training to gear) and $27,000 in emergency funds to our part- indigenous organizations in the Amazon. ner groups. We helped raise additional funds by translating and forwarding grant proposals to US- based foundations and individual donors. Video Productions

ACT led missions to provide assistance to partner Based on footage we gathered on our mis- groups. The communications training and the sions, Amazon Watch produced and equipment has proven crucial and improved the released the following videos in 2002: internal communications of the indigenous groups. For example, Amazon Watch: •Produced a seven-minute documentary on • Delivered digital camera and audio-visual equip- Amazon Watch’s work and achievements ment for the Peruvian indigenous rights organiza- tion, Racimos de Ungurahui. narrated by Martin Sheen. • Delivered donated communications equipment •Produced a ten-minute video entitled (2-way radios) and conducted trainings of local “ChevronTexaco: Ecuador’s Black Plague” about communities threatened by oil development in the toxic legacy the company left behind after 30 Ecuador. years of operating in the Amazon. •Provided expert radio technician from Wave Bridge Communications Project who spent six • Disseminated select video footage (B-roll and tes- weeks training Achuar and Quichua communities timonies) about Peru’s Camisea project and dis- and activists in Mindo in equipment operation and tributed it to project financiers (Ex-Im, IDB, CAF, maintenance. Citigroup) and to the Washington Post. • Acquired funding and purchased a laptop com- puter for OPIAC, the indigenous organization of • Produced video entitled “Plundering the Forest: the Colombian Amazon. An Audit of Enron and Shell’s Bolivian Pipelines” . • Delivered equipment and financial support to • Produced B-roll on the OCP pipeline in Ecuador indigenous and environmental groups in Ecuador and distributed to CNN, German TV networks, affected by the OCP pipeline. and APTN. • Delivered donated laptops to the leader of National Council of Rubber Tappers (CNS) in • Assisted Acción Creativa, an Ecuadorian organi- Rondonia, Brazil. zation to produce, translate and disseminate a 30- • Provided digital camera gear to Associacao dos minute documentary entitled “Amazon Oil Seringueiros Kaxinawa do Rio Jordão (ASKARJ). Pipeline: Pollution, Corruption and Poverty.”

Page 11 Amazon Watch Financial Report

STATEMENT OF ACTIVITIES

January 1 to December 31

Revenues 2002 2001

Foundation Grants $ 285,000 $ 308,000

Individual Donors $ 20,379 $ 25,891

Non-profit Organizations and Business Donors $ 69,095 $ 6,121

Restricted Funds for Groups in the Amazon $ 30,377 $ 20,416

Total Income Restricted & Unrestricted $ 404,851 $ 360,428

YEAR 2002 YEAR 2002 REVENUES EXPENDITURES

Grants for Organizations & Amazon Groups Businesses 17% Program Services 8% 75%

Individuals Fundraising 5% 7%

Management 10%

Funds to Foundation Grants Amazon Groups 70% 8%

Expenditures 2002 2001

Program Services $ 350,231 $ 210,028

Funds to Groups in the Amazon $ 36,430 $ 28,509

Management & General Expenses $ 48,661 $ 47,830

Fundraising Expense $ 34,289 $ 20,460

Total Expenditures $ 469,611 $ 306,827

Net Income $ (64,761) $ 53,601 Net Assets, January 1 $ 154,570 $ 100,969 Net Assets, December 31 * $ 89,809 $ 154,570

* Year end net assets include $80,981 in cash accounts and $8,828 in property and equipment.

Page 12 Amazon Watch Staff & Board of Directors

REGULAR STAFF

Atossa Soltani, Executive Director Janet Lloyd, Anthropologist, Research & Policy Analyst Kevin Koenig, Amazon Oil Campaign Coordinator Leila Salazar, Cleanup Ecuador Campaign Organizer Thomas Cavanagh, Operations Manager Greg Bernstein, Digital Media Specialist Natalie van Zelm, Website Coordinator

CONTRACT & PROJECT STAFF BOARD OF DIRECTORS * Member of the Amazon Communications Team Celia Alario* Board President: Atossa Soltani- Lucy Braham* Founder/Executive Director of Amazon Watch, Anael Bonsorte, ABC Design Steering Council Member, Amazon Alliance Stephanie Boyd Erick Brownstein Board Secretary: Heather Rosmarin-J.D., candi- Robin Brandes date for the California bar Charlie Cardillo, Underground Ads Patricia Caffrey Board Treasurer: Jeanne Trombly-Board member David Edeli of Fiber Futures and Solar Living Center Tashia Hales Derrick Hindery* Andrew Beath-Founder/Executive Director of Hillary Hosta EarthWays Foundation; Founder & Board President Sean Karlin* of Social & Environmental Entrepreneurs (SEE); and Ariel Lopez* author of Conscious Activism Dang Ngo* Julio Cesar Manosalva Delia Dominguez-Chairwoman of the Kitanemuk Andy Morris, Andy Morris and Company and Yokuts Tejon Indians (Elk Hills), CA Innosanto Nagara, Design Action John Parnell, Wavebridge Communications* Cary Elwes-Actor and human rights activist (Princess Jeremy Paster* Bride, Cradle Will Rock, X-Files) Ellena Ochoa Joseph Van Geffen, Element 23 Inc. Jonathan Frieman-Executive Director of JoMiJo Violeta Villacorta Foundation, Member of Threshold Foundation Peter Walbridge, Underground Ads Dan Ward Daniela Meltzer-Colombian activist, President of Shannon Wright Coptervision; Global Ecology Program Alumna

Page 13 Acknowledgements

We thank all of our donors including those who may have been ommitted here. Your generosity and support makes Amazon Watch’s work possible. Individual Donors:

Andrew Beath Michael Bell Greg Bernsterin Cary Elwes Peter Freitas Jonathan Frieman Al Gedicks Mimi Gitlin Ann Golob Kevin and Sylvia Gratt Eric Hoffman Marika Holmgren Jacob & David Horwitz Carl Howe Sean Karlin Peter Laffin Mary Stuart Masterson Machiguenga girl from the Peruvian Amazon David Matchett Daniela and Adam Meltzer Foundations Tom Mertes and Institutional Jonas Minton Donors: In-Kind Donors: Leslie Morava Nicholas Morgan Charles Stewart Mott Foundation Aeolia Organics Mary Ellen Nagle Circle of Life Foundation Allen Myerson Wine Dan Nord Environmental Defense Aunt Vi’s Garden Woodward Payne Environmental Media Services Big Sur Flower Essences Bonnie Raitt Foundation for Deep Ecology Bodhi Bars Genevieve Raymond Free Speech T.V. Dagoba Roger Richman Friends of the Earth Organic Mailynn Alper Ritter Future Forests Chocolate Bars Bruce Robertson Global Green Grants Dr. Hauschka Skin Care David Rosenstein Groundspring Gear for Good Heather Rosmarin Institute for Policy Studies Go Solar Karen Rosmarin Kohn, Swift, and Graf Guayaki Sustainable Rainforest Nancy Rudolph Mental Insight Foundation Products John Seed The Moriah Fund, Inc. Teresa Shaw National Wildlife Federation John and Magdalene Nirvana Candles Brandeis John Shurtz Oxfam America Beth Singer Paper Allied-Industrial, Chemical Kari Smith and Energy Workers’ Union LowePro Roxana Soltani Rainforest Action Network Mountain Hardware Oliver Stone Rainforest Information Center- Patagonia Jeanne Trombly Australia Rainforest Action Network Lynne Twist Richard & Rhoda Goldman Fund Spencer Wright Imports Sara Jane Villa Lobos Threshold Foundation Thom Hartmann Violeta Villacorta W. Alton Jones Foundation The Tropics Inc. Patricia Wolfe Page 14 Partners, Volunteers & Allies

We wish to thank all the follow- EarthRights International Oxfam America ing people and their organizations Friends of the Earth Pachamama Alliance for collaborating with us on our Global Exchange Pañachocha Foundation campaigns during 2002. Global Response Project Bandaloop Greenpeace-US and Germany Project Underground Collaborators and Heart Magic Rettet de Regenwald-Germany Volunteers: Hesperian Foundation Rainforest Action Network International Forum on Globalization Rainforest Information Center-Australia Rebecca Belletto International Rivers Network The Ruckus Society Antoine Bonsorte* Institute for Policy Studies / Sustainable Underground Advertising Molly Brown Energy and Economy Network The U’wa Defense Project Julia Butterfly Hill The National Lawyers Guild – Los Angeles West County Toxics Coalition Murray Cooper National Wildlife Federation Witness Lela Davida Joe Dibbee Brett Doran Amazonian Partner Groups Sharon Gelman, Artists for a New South Africa Amazon Watch works in partnership with dozens of local organizations. These groups play a Adam Goldstein lead role in defining our program priorities. In 2002, Amazon Watch worked closely with the Anne Hutchinson following partner organizations in the Amazon. We thank these organizations for their courage Joe Kane and commitment. Kim Kindersely, Heart Magic BOLIVIA Laurie Kaufman CPESC—Indigenous Peoples Organization of Santa Cruz, Bolivia Sharon Lungo CEADES—NGO supporting the indigenous organizations in Eastern Bolivia Adam Meltzer* OICH—Chiquitano Indigenous Peoples’ Organization Shanti Michaels CIDOB—The national indigenous organization of Bolivia Justine Moore Souheila Mouamar BRAZIL Ana Maria Murillo, U’wa Friends of the Earth Amazonia Pastoral Land Commission—environmental / human rights group and part of the catholic church Defense Project COIAB—Indigenous Organization of the Brazilian Amazon John Quigley CNS—National Council of Rubber Tappers Patrick Reinsborough Eduardo Ribeiro COLOMBIA Roxana Soltani ONIC—National Indigenous Organization of Colombia Ashkan Soltani U’wa Traditional Authorities—The organization of the U’wa people of northeastern Colombia Sarada Tangirala OPIAC—Indigenous Peoples’ Organization of the Colombian Amazon Efrain Toapanta ECUADOR Stephanie Wohl Gonzales Acción Ecológica—environmental organization based in Quito, Ecuador Organizational ONZAE—Zapara Indigenous Organization, Ecuadorian Amazon Allies: CDES—Center for Economic and Social Rights based in Ecuador and the United States CONAIE—The National Indigenous Organization of Ecuador FINAE—Achuar people’s indigenous organization, Ecuadorian Amazon Action Resource Center FIPSE—Shuar people’s indigenous organization, Ecuadorian Amazon Amazon Alliance Frente de la Defensa de la Amazonia—An umbrella organization of communities adversely Amnesty International affected by oil development in the northern Ecuadorian Amazon Art and Revolution Fundación Pachamama—Foundation supporting indigenous organizations in the Ecuadorian Amazon Bank Information Center Accion por la Vida—Environmental community organization from the Mindo region Circle of Life Foundation ONHAE—Organization of the Huaorani People of Ecuador, Ecuadorian Amazon Communities for a Better Environment PERU CorpWatch AIDESEP—Peru’s national organization for indigenous peoples of the Peruvian Amazon Creative Artists Agency CEDIA— environmental and social justice NGO Foundation COMARU—Machiguenga people’s indigenous organization, Peruvian Amazon The Data Center FENAMAD—indigenous organization representing the indigenous peoples of Madre de Dios Racimos de Ungurahui—organization defending the rights of Peru’s indigenous peoples Earth Communications Office Shinai Serjali—Support organization working on behalf of the Nahua people Earthways Foundation ORACH—The Achuar people’s indigenous organization Peruvian Amazon Environmental Defense Page 15 HEADQUARTERS 2350 CHUMASH ROAD MALIBU, CA 90265 TEL: (310) 456.9158 F AX: (310) 456.9138

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