Amazon Watch

Amazon Watch is a member of the Business Ethics Network and profiled in the WiserEarth database at: http://www.wiserearth.org/organization/view/0504cd98b80acd2372cbfae7abddd3f2

"To work with indigenous and environmental organizations in the Amazon Basin to defend the environment and advance indigenous peoples' rights in the face of large-scale industrial development-oil and gas pipelines, power lines, roads, and other mega-projects."

Corporations Targeted by Amazon Watch

 * Chevron

Major Funders (2006)
$100,000 and Up
 * Blue Moon Fund*
 * Charles Stewart Mott Foundation
 * Wallace Global Fund*

$50,000 to $99,000
 * Moriah Fund*
 * Richard and Rhoda Goldman Fund

$25,000 to $49,999
 * American Jewish World Service*
 * Conservation Food & Health
 * Overbrook Foundation
 * Rausing Trust
 * Threshold Foundation

Funders (2002)
Accessed October 2009:


 * Charles Stewart Mott Foundation, Circle of Life Foundation, Environmental Defense, Environmental Media Services, Foundation for Deep Ecology, Free Speech T.V., Friends of the Earth, Future Forests, Global Green Grants, Groundspring, Institute for Policy Studies, Kohn, Swift, and Graf Mental Insight Foundation, Moriah Fund, National Wildlife Federation, Nirvana Candles, Oxfam America, Paper Allied-Industrial, Chemical and Energy Workers’ Union, Rainforest Action Network, Rainforest Information Center-Australia, Richard & Rhoda Goldman Fund, Threshold Foundation, W. Alton Jones Foundation

Directors
Accessed September 2008:


 * Andrew Beath
 * Dee Dominguez
 * Jonathan Frieman
 * Daniela Meltzer
 * Jeff Mendelsohn
 * Jonas Minton
 * Ana Maria Murillo
 * Atossa Soltani
 * Jeanne Trombly

Honorary Directors
 * Cary Elwes
 * Bianca Jagger
 * Q’orianka Kilcher (Amazon Watch Youth Ambassador)

Directors (2002)
Accessed October 2009:


 * Board President: Atossa Soltani-Founder/Executive Director of Amazon Watch, Steering Council Member, Amazon Alliance
 * Board Secretary: Heather Rosmarin-J.D., candidate for the California bar
 * Board Treasurer: Jeanne Trombly-Board member of Fiber Futures and Solar Living Center
 * Andrew Beath-Founder/Executive Director of EarthWays Foundation; Founder & Board President of Social & Environmental Entrepreneurs (SEE); and author of Conscious Activism
 * Delia Dominguez-Chairwoman of the Kitanemuk and Yokuts Tejon Indians (Elk Hills), CA
 * Cary Elwes-Actor and human rights activist (Princess Bride, Cradle Will Rock, X-Files)
 * Jonathan Frieman-Executive Director of JoMiJo Foundation, Member of Threshold Foundation
 * Daniela Meltzer-Colombian activist, President of Coptervision; Global Ecology Program Alumna

Contact

 * Web: http://www.amazonwatch.org

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