If you liked this story, share it with other people. The long life and sudden 2020 death of Waorani elder Nenkihui Bay encapsulates his community’s struggles against territorial loss, environmental ...

Nemonte Nenquimo, Waorani leader from the Ecuadorian Amazon.Jerónimo Zúñiga / Amazon Frontlines Perhaps people all over the world are a bit arrogant and think that their ways of doing things are the ...

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Before she went to the Ecuadorean jungle to live with the Waorani tribe, Karen Morris-Lanz was a BlackBerry-toting workaholic single mother from Milton Keynes. Here she explains how life with this ...

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 ...

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 ...

South America and especially the Amazon basin is known to be home to some of the most isolated human groups in the world. Here, we report on a study of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) in the Waorani from ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Environmental short documentary “Waorani: Guardians of the Amazon” is aiming to spread its message further with an awards season ...