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The tensions left behind by oil in a key area of ​​the Colombian Amazon

By Catalina Sanabria

Almost the entire Ombú oil block, operated by Emerald Energy, overlaps Colombia’s Macarena Special Management Area, created to conserve connectivity between the Andean, Amazon and Orinoquía natural regions. The project, now suspended after social protests, exposes the tensions caused by hydrocarbon extraction in protected areas without clear regulations.

Eneva is authorized to drill the only active gas block on Indigenous Land in the Legal Amazon

By Fábio Bispo

Over 75% of the Krenyê territory, in the Brazilian Maranhão state, overlaps a block granted for fossil exploration where drilling could begin in 2026. Allegedly to help the energy transition, expansion of production at the Parnaíba Thermoelectric Complex bets on energy generation and the transformation of the MATOPIBA area into a logistics corridor for gas and grains, impacting quilombola territories and protected areas.

Fueling Ecocide: 7,000 protected areas are threatened by oil and gas projects worldwide

By Alexandre Brutelle, Daniela Sala and Yann Philippin

The “Fueling Ecocide” investigation, led by Environmental Investigative Forum (EIF) and European Investigative Collaborations (EIC), reveals that oil and gas licences overlap with 7,000 protected areas worldwide. The total overlap is 690,000 km², an area bigger than the size of France — despite existing regulations and ongoing efforts to safeguard key biodiversity zones.

The Critical Minerals Trade: The Illegal Route Connecting the Amazon with China

By Bram Ebus

A complex network of actors has emerged around the critical minerals of the Amazon. Some operate along contested river corridors, trading with guerrilla groups and corrupt security forces. Others, under a façade of legality, move massive quantities of material through large port cities connected to international trade routes. Together, these operations endanger the environment and the sovereignty of entire nations.

Chorrobocón’s Gamble: Betting on Critical Minerals

By Bram Ebus

In Colombia’s jungles, where the deep green of the Amazon collides with poverty and exclusion, a hidden and dangerous business flourishes. In the remote corners of Guainía, Indigenous communities such as the Puinave find themselves trapped in illegal mining, an activity that allows them to survive but threatens to destroy the land they inhabit. With the decline of gold, strategic minerals have risen as a promise for the future. However, this new mineral rush, which promises to be less polluting than gold mining, carries enormous environmental and social risks.

The Price of Progress: The Dark Side of Critical Minerals in the Amazon

By Bram Ebus

Based on extensive fieldwork and an investigation of supply chains, tracing minerals from extraction to international buyers, we reveal how the global race for the inputs of the energy transition is intensifying violent disputes along the Colombia–Venezuela border, where armed groups control the territory, commit systematic abuses, and destroy one of the planet’s most important carbon sinks.

As a sponsor of COP30, Vale buys carbon credits from an area in the Amazon accused of irregularities in timber management

By Fábio Bispo

A mining company presents the ABC Norte REDD project as its environmental trump card, but the Brazilian Institute of Environment and Renewable Natural Resources found problems with timber extraction within the climate compensation area — which formed the basis of a complaint filed by the Public Prosecutor’s Office against the timber company Madeireira J & Y. The territory in the Amazon region of Pará also registers deforestation, authorization for mineral exploration, and land conflicts with traditional communities.

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