New Amazonian species has been crowned world's biggest snake. The emerald wonder of the Amazon rainforest just yielded a ...

Deep inside Ecuador’s Amazon basin, scientists have identified a massive new species of anaconda that may be the largest ...

Leaders of Ecuador’s Waorani Indigenous community gathered at Quito's Constitutional Court on Tuesday, urging recognition of territorial rights threatened by government-backed oil projects. The ...

The Waorani delegation, including spiritual figures, demanded assurances of prior consultation before any exploration affecting approximately 180,000 hectares of ancestral land in Pastaza proceeds.

Waorani Indigenous people protest outside the Constitutional Court, Ecuador, Tuesday, May 13, 2025. Almost one in 10 property sellers taking a loss See the universe like never before captured by a 609 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Waorani women at a community meeting with oil representatives and the military. (Photo by Matt Goff, Kresge ’13, sociology) What is the indigenous people’s lived experience like in a region where the ...

Waorani woman Nemonte Nenquimo grew up deep in the Amazon rainforest of eastern Ecuador, in a small village surrounded by abundance, maintained by careful agricultural and harvesting practices. The ...

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 ...

A group of Waorani Indigenous people protested against oil extraction in the ITT block in the Ecuadorian Yasuní region in front of the Constitutional Court in Quito on August 30, 2024. Credit: Rodrigo ...