DAVID HILL (BA, MPhil, GDipJ) is an activist and journalist. He writes regularly on Substack and is a co-host and co-producer of the recently-released film Bolivian Burning made by The Gecko Project.

As an activist, he has worked in different capacities for international NGOs such as Global Witness, Forest Peoples Programme and Survival International.

As a journalist, he has written for numerous publications including The Guardian, where he wrote the Andes to the Amazon column, The Observer, The Ecologist, The Huffington Post, Mongabay, AlterNet, ChinaDialogue and New Internationalist.

His focuses include indigenous peoples’s rights, indigenous peoples living in ‘isolation’, the Amazon, the oil and gas industries, industrial-scale logging, forests, conservation and ‘defenders.’

Hill has lived in and travelled widely across Peru in particular, visiting Amahuaca, Arabela, Asháninka, Ashéninka, Awajún, Cashinahua/Huni Kuin, ‘Chitonahua'/'Murunahua', Kichwa, 'Mastanahua', Matsigenka, Matsés, Yaminahua and Yine territories.