Around the world: The Waorani people demand the right to decide their future in Ecuador, Indigenous communities in Taiwan battle a new digital threat, an Indigenous river defender in Peru wins the ...

He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose.” Those prophetic words were written by 22-year ...

A thick slick of oil covers part of an estuary in the Ecuadoran Amazon, where the Indigenous Waorani people are imploring authorities to stop drilling for the black gold that keeps spilling into their ...

A new species of giant anaconda has been found in the Bameno region of Baihuaeri Waorani Territory in the Ecuadorian Amazon. The largest snake the team found in Waorani territory was a female anaconda ...

Members of the Indigenous Waorani village of Kiwaro looked skyward as a helicopter hovered over the rainforest canopy in the center of Ecuador and landed in a nearby clearing. Out stepped government ...

Guest: Nemonte Nenquimo is a leader of the Waorani people, cofounder of the Ceibo Alliance, and an internationally acclaimed activist. Born in the Amazon region of Ecuador in 1985, she is a winner of ...

Nemonte Nenquimo, Waorani leader from the Ecuadorian Amazon. Nemonte Nenquimo, Waorani leader from the Ecuadorian Amazon.Jerónimo Zúñiga / Amazon Frontlines Perhaps people all over the world are a bit ...

Ecuador's Waorani demand court action over Amazon oil projects Leaders of Ecuador’s Waorani Indigenous community gathered at Quito's Constitutional Court on Tuesday, urging recognition of territorial ...

BOGOTA, Colombia — It's been a year since the people of Ecuador voted to halt oil drilling in a national park in the heart of the country's share of the Amazon, and nothing has been done to start ...

Waorani indigenous people look at Petroecuador company trucks passing by Guiyero Waorani village within the Yasuni National Park in the province of Orellana, Ecuador ...