Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Waoranis leader Nemonte Nenquimo, center, and lawyer Lina Espinosa, right, celebrate after a judged ruled in their favor in a ...

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 ...

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 ...

2003-12-12 04:00:00 PDT Pumpuentsa, Ecuador-- As international energy companies move into the Amazon basin to tap some of the world's last untouched oil and natural gas reserves, more and more of the ...

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 ...

File picture shows an Huaorani tribal instructor teaching jungle survival techniques to troops, in the Amazonian province of Orellana, Ecuador. Amazon tribesmen killed at least 18 people in an ...

Guided by the indigenous people of Ecuador’s Sucumbíos province, which has been hit by oil exploitation, Waorani people from Pastaza province joined a “Toxic Tour” to learn how contamination has ...

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Indigenous tribe representatives from the Amazon in Ecuador joined an anti-austerity demonstration in Quito on Friday, as hopes for talks between protest leaders and the government dimmed following ...

2004-09-03 04:00:00 PDT Tiguino, Ecuador-- Penti Baihua, a community leader of the Huaorani Indians, knew there was more to the massacre of 26 members of a rival Amazon tribe than mere revenge. In May ...

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 ...