Spears and poisoned blowguns at hand, the Waorani people say they are ready to strike down invaders of their Amazon homelands, just like their forefathers did. But now their battle is in court, and ...

BOGOTA, July 12 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A court in Ecuador has upheld a ruling that prevents the government from selling land in the Amazon rainforest to oil companies, a move activists called ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Environmental short documentary “Waorani: Guardians of the Amazon” is aiming to spread its message further with an awards season ...

In Ecuador, members of the indigenous Waorani tribe celebrated as a court upheld a ruling barring the government from selling land in the Amazon to oil companies. The Waorani argued they had not been ...

A member of one of Ecuador’s indigenous Amazon tribes has become the first tribesperson in the country to be infected with the coronavirus, health officials announced on Sunday. The infected person ...

The prize is their corner of Ecuador's Amazon rainforest, ancestral lands where exploration licenses are up for grabs under a government plan to sell lucrative land concessions to oil companies. A ...

Environmental short documentary “Waorani: Guardians of the Amazon” is aiming to spread its message further with an awards season push beginning with FallDocs. For thousands of years, the Waorani women ...

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