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 ...

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 ...

QUITO, Oct 11 (Reuters) - 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 ...

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 ...

The Wauroni tribes, who live in the forests of Ecuador, are getting ready to challenge the Ecuadorian government’s plan to sell as much as 8 million acres of rainforest for oil drilling, saying they ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

BOGOTA (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 a ...