"While Ecuador touts its oil plan at COP30, indigenous leaders and celebrities repeat: “Noboa, The Amazon Is Not For Sale.”", 20 November 2025

...With a series of nighttime projections on iconic buildings in the city of Belem, host of COP30 on climate change, global celebrities such as Jane Fonda, Harrison Ford, Emma Thompson, Eugenio Derbez, Stephen Fry, Cynthia Nixon, Chelsea Handler, and Lily Tomlin sent a video message to the Ecuadorian government: “Noboa, the Amazon is not for sale.”

The message was projected onto four different buildings in the city of Belem, so that the world could learn about the risk posed by the aggressive oil agenda promoted by the Ecuadorian government, with nearly 50 tenders threatening at least 29,663.42 km² (an area similar to the entire territory of Belgium) of ancestral territories of indigenous peoples and nationalities in the Ecuadorian Amazon, one of the most biodiverse regions in the world...

Ecuador’s Minister of Environment and Energy, Inés Manzano, is doubling down on fossil fuels, rejecting any transition to clean energy and pushing for drilling in the Amazon...

In none of these new projects were the seven Indigenous peoples and nationalities affected consulted, as required by the Constitution...

This message also comes five days after the Ecuadorian people said NO in a referendum to create a new Constitution, which would have been regressive in terms of Rights of Nature, human rights, and collective rights of indigenous peoples, and which would have facilitated the implementation of oil and mining projects by dismissing legal restrictions...