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GRA#S.America CampaignsStatus
2/08 Stop Dams; Protect Patagonia's Rivers and Forests / ChileCurrent
1/06b Apoye a Pueblos Indígenas contra Minas de Carbón / Venezuela
1/06 Support Indigenous Peoples vs. Coal Mines / VenezuelaVictory
4/04 Support Indigenous Peoples vs. Oil Development / EcuadorArchived
1/03 Support Sarayacu People / EcuadorArchived
6/02 Stop Camisea Gas Pipeline / PeruVictory
5/02 Destructive vs. Sustainable Development / ChileVictory
5/01 Protect Rivers, Forests and Indigenous Peoples / BrazilVictory
4/01 Stop Gold Mine Expansion / PeruVictory
3/01 Protect Ancient Gondwana Forest / Tierra del FuegoVictory
1/00 Help the U'wa People Stop Oil Drilling / ColombiaVictory
2/99 Save Ancient Temperate Forests / ChileVictory
3/98 Protect Imataca Forest Reserve / VenezuelaArchived
6/97 Preserve Cloud Forest, Stop Mitsubishi Mine / EcuadorVictory
2/96 Protection of Coastal Rainforest / EcuadorArchived
8/94 Natural Resource Protection / GuyanaArchived
4/94 Rainforest, Water Resource Destruction / VenezuelaArchived
6/91 Wetlands / Endangered SpeciesVictory
5/91 PetroPeru / Texas Crude ContractVictory
4/90 Ecuadorian Amazon RainforestVictory
3/90 Peru Environmental CodeArchived

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In Chile’s southern Patagonian region, the local people have established a “Reserve of Life,” pledging to protect the area’s glaciers, wilderness, rivers, forests and endangered species. Multinational energy companies, however, want to dam at least 5 of Patagonia’s wild rivers and erect a colossal 1500-mile power line to carry electricity to Chile’s northern industrial zone. In support of the “Reserve of Life,” Global Response is writing letters to stop this dangerous project before it destroys Chile’s ancient and unique temperate rainforests.


La Sierra de Perija está en el punto norte de los Andes, a lo largo de la frontera entre Venezuela y Colombia. Rica en bosques primarios y diversidad biológica, la Sierra se ha transformado en un campo de batalla, en el cual el gobierno venezolano tiene que elegir entre los derechos de indígenas y la protección ambiental, de un lado, y del otro lado, la explotación de los masivos depósitos de carbón.
The Sierra de Perija is the northernmost range of the Andes mountains, reaching to the Caribbean along the Colombia-Venezuelan border. Rich in primary forests and biological diversity, the Sierra has become a battleground where the Venezuelan government must make a choice between indigenous rights and environmental protection on one hand, and exploiting the region’s massive coal deposits on the other.

The indigenous Shuar and Achuar peoples of the Ecuadorian Amazon need international support in their struggle to stop oil development in their territories. The Ecuadorian government threatens to back the oil companies with military force.


Cancel permit for oil explorations in home to many endangered species and sacred to the Sarayacu people.
Stop funding for Camisea Gas Pipeline which threatens indigenous peoples and rainforests. VICTORY!
Stop the building of a huge aluminum smelter in Chile, that would dam three watersheds, destroy temperate rainforests, and pollute air and water. VICTORY!
Stop dam construction and protect environmental activists in the Amazon Rainforest, Brazil. VICTORY!
Cajamarca region's water supply is threatened by Newmont's Yanacocha gold mine.
Stop logging in the lenga forests of Tierra del Fuego and create bi-national park for their permanent protection.
Stop Occidental Oil from drilling in U’wa traditional territory. VICTORY!
Cancel Boise Cascade's chip mill project in southern Chile to save the ancient temperate rainforests. VICTORY!
Challenge Presidential Decree 1850 which would open 40% of the Imataca Reserve in Venezuela to multinational mining companies.
Stop construction of a copper mine in an ecologically unique and important cloud forest region of Ecuador. VICTORY!
Preserve the coastal tropical rainforests of the Mache-Chindal Mountains in northwestern Ecuador.
Protect the undisturbed rainforests of Guyana from extractive resources exploitation.
Enforce laws protecting the rainforests, rivers, and indigenous people of southern Venezuela from gold-mining in the headwaters of the Caroni River.
Protect two of Venezuelas most important wetlands and flamingo feeding areas from development. VICTORY!
Preserve Pacaya-Samiria, Peru, from being opened to oil-drilling. VICTORY!
Stop oil development which threatens ecology and indigenous cultures in the biologically diverse Ecuadorian Amazon Rainforest. VICTORY!
Urge support for Peru's landmark environmental legislation.