Cattle, gold, oil, timber… The Amazon Rainforest is buckling under the pressures of powerful interests, taking us to an irreversible ecological tipping point. We must unite to respect and protect the Amazon rainforest, indigenous autonomy and territorial defense. It’s now or never.
Born into the Waorani tribe of Ecuador's Amazon rainforest, Nemonte Nenquimo has emerged as one of the most forceful voices in climate change activism after she spearheaded the alliance of Indigenous nations across the Upper Amazon and led her people to a landmark victory against Big Oil, protecting over a half million acres of primary rainforest.
In her book We Will Be Jaguars, she partners with her husband Mitch Anderson, co-founder of Amazon Frontlines, to dig into generations of oral history and uproot centuries of conquest.