Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Waoranis leader Nemonte Nenquimo, center, and lawyer Lina Espinosa, right, celebrate after a judged ruled in their favor in a ...

QUITO, Oct 11 (Reuters) - Indigenous tribe representatives from the Amazon in Ecuador joined an anti-austerity demonstration in Quito on Friday, as hopes for talks between protest leaders and the ...

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 ...

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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 ...

A battle is looming between one of South America's largest state-backed oil companies and an indigenous community of about 400 in the Ecuadorian rainforest. The area is near Yasuni National Park, in ...

A member of one of Ecuador’s indigenous Amazon tribes has become the first tribesperson in the country to be infected with the coronavirus, health officials announced on Sunday. The infected person ...

In this file photo from a so-called "Toxic Tour" of the Amazon, Ecuadorean activist Donald Moncayo dips his gloved hand into oil from the soils of Lago Agrio 5, a site that Chevron said it remediated.

BOGOTA, July 21 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Ecuador's indigenous groups in the Amazon have launched an information dashboard to monitor the coronavirus and identify contagion hotspots as the ...

* Indigenous tribes have ousted past Ecuadorean leaders * Groups say bill would rob tribes of control over water By Alexandra Valencia QUITO, May 6 (Reuters) - Police fired tear gas at Ecuadorean ...

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 ...

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 ...