The Interethnic Association for the Development of the Peruvian Forest (AIDESEP), an institution representing more than 1,500 Amazonian communities, declared the indigenous Amazon in emergency due to the coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19).

On March 26th, 2020, a group of Organizations of Indigenous Nationalities, Non-Governmental Organizations and Civil Society Organizations in Ecuador, signed an Urgent Action addressed to the Ecuadorian National Government.