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 ...

Loggers were killed last year after entering Mashco Piro territory in Peru's Amazon, with Indigenous leaders warning that ...

Waoranis leader Nemonte Nenquimo, center, and lawyer Lina Espinosa, right, celebrate after a judged ruled in their favor in a lawsuit filed against the Ministry of Non-Renewable Natural Resources for ...

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 ...

BOGOTA, July 12 (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 ...

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 ...

Ecuador is facing an unprecedented confrontation between a 'progressive' left-leaning government and a national coalition of indigenous peoples determined to stop vast oil and mining projects taking ...

One of South America's poorest countries, Ecuador, is believed to be sitting on huge untapped reserves of oil and gas. Much of it, though, lies beneath remote areas of the Amazon rainforest. Now the ...

An indigenous tribe from one of the most remote parts of the Amazon rainforest is taking over a unique eco-tourism project as a way to protect their ancestral lands from oil extraction. Angel Etsaa ...