from Achuar territory in Peru in 2012, and 2020, respectively compelled London-based mining giant Anglo American PLC to abandon research permits on Munduruku lands in the Amazon in 2021 and prevented construction of the São Luiz do Tapajós dam in the Amazonian Tapajós river basin in 2016. The group helped drive the now-defunct, Calgary-based Talisman Energy Inc. “Anyone looking to get involved with them will be shouldering serious risk and will be complicit in the continued threats to the Amazon rainforest, Indigenous and traditional peoples, and the global climate.”īelo Sun’s legal counsel, Kenny Choi, declined to comment on Amazon Watch’s allegations before this article was published.Īmazon Watch is a significant foe. “We are putting any institution or company looking to invest in or acquire Belo Sun on notice: this is a bad actor selling a dangerous project,” Christian Poirier, Amazon Watch program director, said in a statement. 9 that condemns the Big Bend project.Īmazon Watch alleged the company has misled investors, has inadequately consulted the local Indigenous communities, and that the company’s plan to use cyanide as a reagent will have detrimental impacts on the health of humans and wildlife in the area. Last year, the group asked the Ontario Securities Commission to investigate Belo Sun, and last week it used the UN’s COP15 conference on biodiversity in Montreal as a platform to launch its latest volley against the company, releasing a report on Dec. Standing in Belo Sun’s way is Amazon Watch, an Oakland, Calif.-based nonprofit with an established track record of pushing international miners out of Indigenous territory in South America by deploying a range of tactics.

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