An oil drilling station carved out of the Ecuadorian Amazon. ©David Gilbert
An abandoned oil pool and production flare outside of Lago Agrio, Ecuador. ©Ivan Kashinsky – Time Magazine
A pool of crude oil and toxic drilling waste burns at an abandoned Texaco-Chevron oil production facility in Cofan territory. Shushufindi, Ecuador. ©Amazon Watch
An oil flare is reflected in an abandoned Texaco-Chevron oil production facility. Guanta, Ecuador. ©David Gilbert
Chief Robinson, the leader of the Cofan indigenous tribe of Ecuador, stands in front of an abandoned Chevron-Texaco oil flare. ©Remi Benali
An abandoned oil pipeline emits toxic pollutants adjancent to a Texaco-Chevron drilling operation. Shushufindi, Ecuador. ©David Gilbert
A boy stands on an oil pipeline in the Amazonian jungle near the town of Lago Agrio, Ecaudor. ©Lou Dematteis
Luz Maria Marin holds the head of her husband Angel Toala the day before he died of stomach cancer in his home in Shushufindi. ©Lou Dematteis
Elevated cancer rates, combined with non-existent health care, has had devastating effects on the indigenous and colono residents living near Chevron-Texaco operations. ©Lou Dematteis
A group of Cofan, who have suffered greatly from Chevron-Texaco’s oil operations in their homeland, travel by boat to oversee testimony in the Chevron oil disaster lawsuit. Dureno, Ecaudor. ©David Gilbert
Indigenous protestors demand justice in the Chevron oil disaster lawsuit outside of the Lago Agrio Court House. Lago Agrio, Ecuador. ©Lou Dematteis
Emergildo Criollo, a plaintiff named in the Chevron oil disaster lawsuit, addresses a crowd outside of Chevron’s annual shareholder meeting. ©Thomas Cavanagh/Amazon Watch
Daryl Hanna, international celebrity, Pablo Fajardo, lead lawyer on the Chevron oil disaster lawsuit, and Emergildo Criollo, plaintiff in the lawsuit, stand together in solidarity at a Chevron-Texaco oil production site in the Ecuadorian Amazon. © Amazon Watch
Representatives from 4 nations affected by Chevron’s human and environmental right abuses protests outside of Chevron’s corporate headquarters in California. ©David Gilbert/Amazon Watch