DAVID HILL (B.A., MPhil., GDipJ) is a journalist and human rights activist. He writes regularly on Substack and is a co-producer of the recently-released film Bolivia Burning made by The Gecko Project, for whom he has been working as a consultant over the last year.

As a journalist, Hill has written many times for The Guardian, where he wrote the Andes to the Amazon column for some years, as well as contributing to other publications such as The Observer, The Ecologist, The Huffington Post, Mongabay, ChinaDialogue and the New Internationalist.

His focuses include indigenous peoples’s rights, indigenous peoples living in ‘isolation’, the Amazon, the oil and gas industries, forests and conservation. He writes in English and Spanish and his articles have been translated into Bahasa Indonesia, Catalan, Chinese, Dutch, French, Italian, Norwegian and Portuguese.

In addition to his journalism, he has worked in different capacities for the international non-governmental organisations Global Witness, Forest Peoples Programme, Survival International, International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs and Rainforest Foundation Norway.

His work has meant travelling to some of the remotest parts of the world in Brazil, Peru and West Papua. Exposés include Ecuador promising Chinese companies they could explore the famous ‘ITT’ oil fields in the Yasuni National Park, and plans by an international gas consortium leader to operate in the 'most biodiverse place on earth'.

He 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.

He has appeared on and in a wide range of media, including CNN, Sky News, Al-Jazeera, ITV, Channel 5, BBC World Service and BBC Radio 2, and been quoted or cited in National Geographic, Foreign Policy, New York Times, Reuters, Associated Press, Bloomberg, The Guardian and the Miami Herald, among many others.