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Amazon Watch, the Glossary

Amazon Watch is a nonprofit organization founded in 1996, and based in Oakland, California, it works to protect the rainforest and advance the rights of indigenous peoples in the Amazon Basin.^[1]

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Amazon basin
Amazon rainforest
Indigenous topics of the Amazon

Achuar

The Achuar are an Indigenous people of the Americas belonging to the Jivaroan family, alongside the Shuar, Shiwiar, Awajun, and Wampis (Perú).

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Agriculture

Agriculture encompasses crop and livestock production, aquaculture, fisheries, and forestry for food and non-food products.

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Aguinda v. Texaco, Inc.

Aguinda v. Texaco, Inc. was a class-action lawsuit against Texaco Petroleum.

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Amazon basin

The Amazon basin is the part of South America drained by the Amazon River and its tributaries.

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The Amazon rainforest, also called Amazon jungle or Amazonia, is a moist broadleaf tropical rainforest in the Amazon biome that covers most of the Amazon basin of South America. Amazon Watch and Amazon rainforest are Amazon basin.

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California

California is a state in the Western United States, lying on the American Pacific Coast.

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Chevron Corporation

Chevron Corporation is an American multinational energy corporation predominantly specializing in oil and gas.

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Corporate social responsibility (CSR) or corporate social impact is a form of international private business self-regulation which aims to contribute to societal goals of a philanthropic, activist, or charitable nature by engaging in, with, or supporting professional service volunteering through pro bono programs, community development, administering monetary grants to non-profit organizations for the public benefit, or to conduct ethically oriented business and investment practices.

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Cultural sensitivity

Cultural sensitivity, also referred to as cross-cultural sensitivity or cultural awareness, is the knowledge, awareness, and acceptance of other cultures and others' cultural identities.

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Deforestation

Deforestation or forest clearance is the removal and destruction of a forest or stand of trees from land that is then converted to non-forest use.

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Democracy Now!

Democracy Now! is an hour-long TV, radio, and Internet news program based in Manhattan and hosted by journalists Amy Goodman (who also acts as the show's executive producer), Juan González, and Nermeen Shaikh.

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Ecosystem

An ecosystem (or ecological system) is a system that environments and their organisms form through their interaction.

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Environmental remediation is the cleanup of hazardous substances dealing with the removal, treatment and containment of pollution or contaminants from environmental media such as soil, groundwater, sediment.

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Environmentalism

Environmentalism or environmental rights is a broad philosophy, ideology, and social movement about supporting life, habitats, and surroundings.

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Extinction Rebellion

Extinction Rebellion (abbreviated as XR) is a UK-founded global environmental movement, with the stated aim of using nonviolent civil disobedience to compel government action to avoid tipping points in the climate system, biodiversity loss, and the risk of social and ecological collapse.

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Exxon Valdez oil spill

The Exxon Valdez oil spill was a major environmental disaster that made worldwide headlines in the spring of 1989 and occurred in Alaska's Prince William Sound on March 24, 1989.

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Film International

Film International is a quarterly academic journal (with a companion site, FilmInt, containing exclusive content) covering film studies.

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Forum non conveniens

Forum non conveniens (Latin for "an inconvenient forum") (FNC) is a mostly common law legal doctrine through which a court acknowledges that another forum or court where the case might have been brought is a more appropriate venue for a legal case, and transfers the case to such a forum.

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Gulf Oil

Gulf Oil was a major global oil company in operation from 1901 to 1985.

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Human rights

Human rights are moral principles or normsJames Nickel, with assistance from Thomas Pogge, M.B.E. Smith, and Leif Wenar, 13 December 2013, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy,.

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Indigenous peoples in Brazil

Indigenous peoples once comprised an estimated 2,000 tribes and nations inhabiting what is now Brazil, prior to European contact around 1500 AD.

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Indigenous rights

Indigenous rights are those rights that exist in recognition of the specific condition of indigenous peoples.

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Lago Agrio oil field

The Lago Agrio oil field is an oil-rich area near the city of Nueva Loja in the province of Sucumbíos, Ecuador.

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Leila Salazar-Lopez

Leila Salazar-López has served as the executive director of the non-profit Amazon Watch since 2015.

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Lewis A. Kaplan

Lewis Avins Kaplan (born December 23, 1944) is an American lawyer and jurist who serves as a senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York.

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Mobilize Earth

Mobilize Earth is the public name of Project Earth 2025, Inc., a US environmental and nonprofit corporation.

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Non-governmental organization

A non-governmental organization (NGO) (see spelling differences) is an organization that generally is formed independent from government.

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Nonprofit organization

A nonprofit organization (NPO), also known as a nonbusiness entity, nonprofit institution, or simply a nonprofit (using the adjective as a noun), is a legal entity organized and operated for a collective, public or social benefit, as opposed to an entity that operates as a business aiming to generate a profit for its owners.

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Oakland, California

Oakland is a city in the San Francisco Bay Area in the U.S. state of California.

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Occidental Petroleum

Occidental Petroleum Corporation (often abbreviated Oxy in reference to its ticker symbol and logo) is an American company engaged in hydrocarbon exploration in the United States and the Middle East as well as petrochemical manufacturing in the United States, Canada, and Chile.

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Petroecuador

EP Petroecuador (Empresa Estatal Petróleos del Ecuador; Empresa Pública Petroecuador; meaning: State Petroleum Company of Ecuador) is the national oil company of Ecuador.

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Pipeline

A pipeline is a system of pipes for long-distance transportation of a liquid or gas, typically to a market area for consumption.

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Plaintiff

A plaintiff (Π in legal shorthand) is the party who initiates a lawsuit (also known as an action) before a court.

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Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act

The Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act is a United States federal law that provides for extended criminal penalties and a civil cause of action for acts performed as part of an ongoing criminal organization.

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Reuters

Reuters is a news agency owned by Thomson Reuters.

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Steven Donziger

Steven Robert Donziger (born September 14, 1961) is an American attorney known for his legal battles with Chevron, particularly Aguinda v. Texaco, Inc. and other cases in which he represented over 30,000 farmers and indigenous people who suffered environmental damage and health problems caused by oil drilling in the Lago Agrio oil field of Ecuador.

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Talisman Energy

Talisman Energy Inc. was a Canadian independent petroleum company that existed between 1993 and 2015.

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Texaco

Texaco, Inc. ("The Texas Company") is an American oil brand owned and operated by Chevron Corporation.

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United States

The United States of America (USA or U.S.A.), commonly known as the United States (US or U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America.

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United States dollar

The United States dollar (symbol: $; currency code: USD; also abbreviated US$ to distinguish it from other dollar-denominated currencies; referred to as the dollar, U.S. dollar, American dollar, or colloquially buck) is the official currency of the United States and several other countries.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Watch

Amazon Watch, the Glossary

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See also

Amazon basin

Amazon rainforest

Indigenous topics of the Amazon

References