Amazon Watch | 8,773 followers on LinkedIn. Protecting rainforest and climate and advancing the rights of indigenous peoples in the Amazon Basin. | Amazon Watch is a nonprofit organization founded in 1996 to protect the rainforest and advance the rights of indigenous peoples in the Amazon Basin. We partner with indigenous and environmental organizations in campaigns for human rights, corporate accountability and the preservation of the Amazon's ecological systems. We envision a world that honors and values cultural and biological diversity and the critical contribution of tropical rainforests to our planet's life support system.