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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Ecuador's Waorani indigenous tribe won their first victory Friday against big oil companies in a ruling that blocks the companies' entry onto ancestral Amazonian lands for oil exploration activities.

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 ...

This week's ruling protects half a million acres of land in the Amazon forest on which the Waorani have lived for centuries from being earmarked for oil drilling, campaigners said BOGOTA, July 12 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The prize is their corner of Ecuador's Amazon rainforest, ancestral lands where exploration licenses are up for grabs under a government plan to sell lucrative land concessions to oil companies. A ...

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 ...