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 ...

Waoranis leader Nemonte Nenquimo, center, and lawyer Lina Espinosa, right, celebrate after a judged ruled in their favor in a lawsuit filed against the Ministry of Non-Renewable Natural Resources for ...

YAWEPARE, Ecuador – An oil pipeline runs through this village to a Chinese rig at the end of the road. At night, when the rig is pumping, the pipeline is too hot to touch, but villagers say that in ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Early this year, jurisdiction over the affairs of isolated indigenous peoples shifted within the Ecuadoran government. It now rests within the ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. A new paper, published in Environmental Research Letters, details this history, starting before the end of the second world war when Shell Oil ...

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 ...

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PIZARRAS, Ecuador — On a recent day, the man known as the Gringo Chief wore a traditional black smock and a necklace strung with the teeth of jaguar and wild boar, perfectly suitable for the Cofan ...

Amazon tribesmen killed at least 18 people in an apparent revenge attack against a rival group in Ecuador, an indigenous leader said on Thursday. Amazon tribesmen killed at least 18 people in an ...

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 a historic win for the Waorani indigenous tribe ...