Amazon Watch

Amazon Watch

Headquarters in Oakland
Founded	1996
Type	Non-governmental organization
Focus	Environmentalism Indigenous rights
Location	Oakland, United States
Area served	Amazon Basin
Key people	Leila Salazar-Lopez, executive director
Revenue	US$ 1,485,169 (2012)
Website	amazonwatch.org

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Amazon Watch is a nonprofit organization^[1] 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. It partners with indigenous and environmental organizations in Ecuador, Peru, Colombia and Brazil in campaigns for human rights, corporate accountability and the preservation of the Amazon's ecological systems.