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 ...

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 ...

Seven Waorani were taken into custody at the end of a meeting with representatives of the Brazilian oil company Petrobell, located in Tigüino in Ecuador’s Orellana province, in January 2015. About 60 ...

The college plans to update the inscription to “reflect the full dignity” of the Waorani tribe. More than 65 years after two of its alumni were killed in what became the most famous example of ...

In a new study, a team of researchers examined the social composition of raiding parties and their relationship to marriage alliances in an Amazonian tribal society, the Waorani of Ecuador. The ...

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 ...

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 (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 ...

Until now, two species of dog-faced bats—a type of bat known for its canine-like face—remained unknown to science. But after careful examination of museum collections and capturing wild specimens, ...

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. The prize is their corner of Ecuador's ...