AMAZON WATCH
Portraits: Women Defenders of the Amazon
For decades, oil companies have taken advantage of the resource-rich land of the western Amazon, violating the basic human rights of the Indigenous people while simultaneously inflicting harm and destroying the beautiful rainforest. Indigenous communities have responded with powerful messages, defending their land at all costs. At the forefront of this ongoing battle are the strong, resilient Indigenous women Earth Defenders.
AMAZON WATCH ARTICLE BY MOIRA BIRSS / PHOTOS BY SANTIAGO CORNEJO
NBC NEWS
Crude reality: One U.S. state consumes half the oil from the Amazon rainforest
As oil companies carve up more of the rainforest, a new study says no place in the world uses more oil from beneath the Amazon than California. By Rich Schapiro, Christine Romo and Santiago Cornejo
ORION MAGAZINE
The World Has Left Mujeres Amazónicas Waiting. Indigenous women rise up to protect the land
FOR MILLENNIA, the Indigenous peoples of the western Amazon have been living in balance with the rainforest and the beings and spirits that inhabit it. We have always defended our cultures and territories. First, from the arrival of the conquerors, and now from the threat of oil companies.
BY PATRICIA GUALINGA / PHOTOS BY SANTIAGO CORNEJO
REUTERS
From Ecuador's Amazon to president's palace, indigenous women demand end to drilling.
BOGOTA, March 23 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Indigenous women from Ecuador's Amazon rainforest have called on the country's president to end oil and mining projects on their ancestral lands, as the nation pushes to open up more of its rainforest to drillers.
REUTERS ARTICLE BY ANASTASIA MOLONEY / PHOTOS BY SANTIAGO CORNEJO
AMAZON FRONTLINES
A Message from Indigenous Women of the Ecuadorian Amazon
From the Ecuadorian Amazon we are witnessing with horror and pain the tragedy that is taking place in Brazil. We stand in solidarity with you. We are all fighting for the freedom of the forests, our people and our future generations to live in harmony and peace!
Photo credits: Santiago Cornejo, Melissa Cartagena, Amazon Frontlines
AMNISTÍA INTERNACIONAL
La defensa de la Amazonía tiene nombre de mujer
Amnistía Internacional denuncia la "falta de voluntad política del Estado" para investigar a fondo los ataques y amenazas contra las defensoras de la tierra, el territorio y el ambiente.
REPORTAJE AMNISTÍA INTERNACIONAL / PHOTOS BY SANTIAGO CORNEJO
Honorable Mention At Paris Photo Awards 2024
Mrs. Leticia Palacios prepares the green plantain to cook it on her wood stove.
- Pueblo Nuevo, Manabí, Ecuador. December 10, 2022 -
PATAGONIA ECO FILM FEST 2021 - Ganador mejor documental internacional
Inseguridad alimentaria, hambre, cambio climático, colapso de ecosistemas: el futuro depende de nosotros. Son retos urgentes, monumentales e interconectados. Caliata es una comunidad indígena milenaria del pueblo Kichwa-Puruwá, asentada en un notable sistema pre-Colombino de terrazas de cultivo. Sus habitantes son herederos de sabidurías y tecnologías ancestrales.
VIENNE 1900 - CD cover artwork for Alpha Classics and Outhere Music (Paris, France)
Daishin Kashimoto, Emmanuel Pahud, Paul Meyer, Zvi Plesser and Éric Le Sage, who have been close musical partners for years, joined forces once again at the Salon de Provence Chamber Music Festival to record this programme devoted to Viennese composers of the early twentieth century.