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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

2003-12-12 04:00:00 PDT Pumpuentsa, Ecuador-- As international energy companies move into the Amazon basin to tap some of the world's last untouched oil and natural gas reserves, more and more of the ...

File picture shows an Huaorani tribal instructor teaching jungle survival techniques to troops, in the Amazonian province of Orellana, Ecuador. Amazon tribesmen killed at least 18 people in an ...

Guided by the indigenous people of Ecuador’s Sucumbíos province, which has been hit by oil exploitation, Waorani people from Pastaza province joined a “Toxic Tour” to learn how contamination has ...