Latin America
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A win for the Marañón? Energy company moves to terminate dam contract, but what will the Peruvian government do?
- By: Ellen Simon
- Clean Water Defense | News
One of the companies with a concession to build a mega dam on the Marañón River, the main hydrological source of the Amazon, has formally asked the Peruvian...
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Newly Released Video Shows Tranquil Villages That Would be Flooded if Marañón Dams are Built
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Clean Water Defense | Press Releases
Marañón Waterkeeper and Waterkeeper Alliance released a video that takes viewers to tranquil villages on the floor of Peru’s remote Marañón Canyon,...
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Ratificación del Acuerdo de Escazú y la protección de los ríos amazónicos
- By: Amazonas Perú Waterkeeper
- News
Por María Sembrero de Derecho, Ambiente y Recursos Naturales (DAR), Amazonas Perú Waterkeeper Los ríos amazónicos han sufrido terribles impactos, producidos...
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The Ratification of the Escazú Agreement and the protection of Amazon rivers
- By: Amazonas Perú Waterkeeper
- News
By María Sembrero of Derecho, Ambiente y Recursos Naturales (DAR) — parent organization of Amazonas Perú Waterkeeper The rivers of the Amazon have...
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The safety of environmental defenders depends on the Escazú Agreement
- By: Rafaela Iturralde
- News
“Last Friday, Roberto Carlos Pacheco Villanueva was assassinated. He and his father, Demetrio Pacheco, had been threatened by illegal miners and invaders...
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Waterkeeper Alliance Calls on Latin American, Caribbean Leaders to Ratify Treaty Protecting Environmental Defenders
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Press Releases
Read in Spanish / Leer en español Latin America has Become Most Dangerous Place in the World for Environmental Activists In response to an increase in...
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Sign to save the source of the Amazon!
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Clean Water Defense | News
Read in Spanish / Leer en español Planned dams on Peru’s Marañón River, the hydrological source of the Amazon, would flood farms and caves containing...
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Amazon Waterway: New risks for the river guardians under the pandemic
- By: Amazonas Perú Waterkeeper
- Clean Water Defense | News
By Liliana García & Verónica Portugal, Derecho, Ambiente y Recursos Naturales (DAR) Photos by Rolando Mondragón/DAR Deep in the Amazon, the people...
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New legal analysis: Dams that threaten the source of the Amazon can’t legally be built
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Clean Water Defense | Press Releases
The environmental impact assessments for two dams planned on Marañón River, the main tributary to the Amazon, have expired, meaning the dams can no longer...
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Peru’s planned dams would displace 1,000 and “decapitate” the Amazon
- By: Ellen Simon
- Clean Water Defense | News
Photos by Ben Webb Twenty hydroelectric dams are planned for Peru’s Marañón River, the primary tributary to the Amazon; two have been approved. These...
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Waterkeeper Alliance to Appear in The Visionaries Series on PBS
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- Press Releases
Waterkeeper Alliance will be profiled in the upcoming season of The Visionaries, the award-winning public television series hosted by acclaimed actor Sam...
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The people who will save the planet: Waterkeeper Warriors featured on Visionaries
- By: Tom Quinn
- News
On the first Earth Day fifty years ago today, April 22, 1970, Pete Seeger sailed the-one-year-old sloop Clearwater to Washington, D.C., with messages of...
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The Source of the Amazon River at Risk Because of Dam Projects
- By: Marañón Waterkeeper
- Clean Water Defense | News
By Bruno Monteferri, the Marañón Waterkeeper Photos by Ben Webb Help us protect this irreplaceable treasure. Sign up for our email updates today. Two...
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For Time Indoors | More Waterkeeper Content!
- By: Julia Widmann
- News
Wondering how you can stay in the fight for clean water from indoors? If you can, consider donating to your local Waterkeeper. Nonprofits depend on events...
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Waterkeeper Documentaries for Time Indoors
- By: Julia Widmann
- News
Wondering how you can stay in the fight for clean water from indoors? If you can, consider donating to your local Waterkeeper. Nonprofits depend on events...
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Our Work Continues
- By: Ellen Simon
- News
In the face of the global coronavirus pandemic, Waterkeeper Alliance is making plans to continue our important mission-driven work, strengthening and supporting...
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Roger Herrera Tapia is Keeping the Watershed Clean in Todos Santos
- By: Gary Wockner
- News
During my visit to Todos Santos in January of 2020, Roger Herrera Tapia was always smiling. It’s a miracle that he’s always smiling due to the amazing...
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20 Dams Put Peru’s Heritage at Risk
- By: Marañón Waterkeeper
- Clean Water Defense | News
By Ben Webb and Bruno Monteferri with Marañón River Waterkeeper Photos by Ben Webb Help us protect this irreplaceable treasure. Sign up for our email...
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Latin American Waterkeepers Tackle Climate Change
- By: Rafaela Iturralde
- News
Leer en español “Climate change is a clear and dire threat to Latin America and the Caribbean. A threat in which the region has had little or no role...
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How the Clean Water War is Won: Waterkeeper Alliance and Culture Trip Introduce “Waterkeeper Warriors”
- By: Waterkeeper Alliance
- News
The Waterkeeper Warriors campaign features photography of waterways around the world and the Waterkeepers who defend them, with stories voiced by Alec...
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3 Projects Making Strides in Human Health and Education
- By: ajcarapella
- News
By Georgia Lambrakis, Waterkeeper Alliance intern As we reflect on 20 years of our fight for drinkable, fishable, swimmable water, we celebrate the strides...
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9 Projects Preserving and Protecting your Waters
- By: ajcarapella
- News
By Georgia Lambrakis, Waterkeeper Alliance intern Whether it’s crafting policies to protect a waterway or advocating against a destructive development,...
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15 Pollution-Prevention Victories
- By: Ellen Simon
- News
Waterkeepers defend their waterways against every source of pollution, whether it’s toxic arsenic from a mine, oil that’s mixed into stormwater, or...
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Protecting the Peruvian Amazon: Indigenous groups fight bad environmental impact assessments
- By: Sharon Khan
- News
In northern Peru, a proposed massive project to dredge Peru’s four most critical Amazonian rivers, the Marañón, Ucayali, Huallaga, and Amazon, is threatening...
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Salmon Farming Stopped in Yelcho Lake, Patagonia Chile
- By: Futaleufú Riverkeeper
- News
Nearly 10 months have passed since the community of Chaitén received an alert that fishing cages had been installed in Yelcho Lake with the purpose of...
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Earth Day: Our Growing Water Crisis and the Water Warriors Fighting it
- By: Marc Yaggi
- News
When millions of people flooded the streets 49 years ago for the first Earth Day, they were making a path, a path that thousands of local activists have...
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20 Years of Clean Water Wins
- By: Marc Yaggi
- News
Today, on World Water Day, I can’t help but reflect on the billions of people around the world without access to clean and safe water. But there’s...
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In Awe of the Women of Waterkeeper Alliance
- By: ajcarapella
- News
By April Seymore, Executive Officer of Port Phillip EcoCentre/Port Phillip Baykeeper Feature image: The author (second from left) aboard the SV Pelican...