Real :: Quicktime

Ecuador's Black Plague Environmental Disaster in the Amazon Basin

Accion Ecologica
Investigates the environmental impacts of mining, shrimp farming, forestry, biotechnology, and biopiracy in Ecuador. Accion Ecologica also analyzes larger themes of the environmental impact of urbanization and globalization, Amazon Watch works with indigenous and environmental organizations in the Amazon Basin to defend the environment and advance indigenous peoples' rights in the face of large-scale industrial development-oil and gas pipelines, power lines, roads, and other mega-projects.

Amazon Watch

CEDHU (Comision Ecumenica de Derechos Humanos)
CEDHU is a Human Rights organization based out of Quito, Ecuador. Contact: Ana Elsie Monge Aptdo: 1703720 Quito, Ecuador tel: 011-593-22-570-619 http://www.derechos.net/cedhu/

Center for Economic and Social Rights
The Center for Economic and Social Rights is one of the first organizations to challenge economic injustice as a violation of international human rights law. Through its projects abroad and in the United States, CESR has developed an effective strategy that combines research, advocacy, collaboration, and education. CESR believes that economic and social rights -- legally binding on all nations -- can provide a universally accepted framework for strengthening social justice activism. http://www.cesr.org/PROGRAMS/latam.htm

CONAIE- The Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador (CONAIE)
Since its formation in 1986, CONAIE has led the Indigenous peoples of Ecuador from relative isolation to a position at center stage of Ecuadorian society. CONAIE is the representative body that guarantees Indigenous people the political voice that has too long been denied them, and that expresses their needs and goals within a rapidly changing world.

FECUNAE
Quichua Indigenous Federation representing Quichua peoples and communities of the lower Napo region based out of Coca, Orellana, Ecuador. Inocencio Machanilla, president tel: 011-593-6-881-648. They can also be contacted through their legal advisor and friend Judith Kimerling in New York, author of Amazon Crude. She can be reached at jkimerling@igc.org or judith_kimerling@qc.edu.

Frente de Defensa de la Amazonia In Coca, Orellana
Contact: Luis Yanza, Legal Coordinator for the Case Against ChevronTexaco
Avenida Monseñor Alejandro Labaka y Eloy Alfaro
tel:011-593-6-882-274 cell: 011-593-97-565-193 e-mail: toxico@ecuanex.net.ec
In Lago Agrio, Sucumbios
Contact: Ermel Chavez, President of the Frente de Defensa de la Amazonia
Avenida Colombia y Eloy Alfaro
tel: 011-593-6-831-021 telefax: 011-593-6-831-930
e-mail: admin@fda.ecuanex.net.ec

Sarayacu
The official website of the Sarayacu, a Kichwa community located in the Pastaza province in the Amazonian region of Ecuador. Because of the current problems with petrol companies, the site also functions as a campaign site for the defense of Saraycu territory.

TexacoRainforest
A website detailing the Chevron Texaco’s presence in Ecuador; site by Frente de Defensa de la Amazonia