Contact with outsiders often spells doom for isolated tribes, said Stanley Stewart in Condé Nast Traveller (U.K.). But one such tribe in Ecuador’s Amazon rain forest—the Huaorani—is turning to ...

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 ...

AbstractIn the Ecuadorian Amazon, the Huaorani are the indigenous group most recently assimilated into the country's social, political, and economic order. With vast reserves of oil located under ...

QUITO, Ecuador – Seismic explorations planned by Chinese oil company Sinopec have led the Ecuadorian eco-tourism company, Tropic, to close the internationally recognized and award-winning Huaorani E ...

Part I: Among forest beings. 1. Domesticating the landscape, producing crops, and reproducing society in Amazonia ; 2. Naming trees ; 3. Historical ecology in Amazonia -- Part II: In the longhouse. 4.

In 1956, five missionaries were viciously killed in Ecuador and, as a 7-year-old boy at the time armed with a Life magazine that chronicled the unparalleled tragedy that summer, I was mesmerized by ...

A giant anaconda species thought to be the largest in the world has been captured deep in the Amazon of Ecuador by a team of scientists from The University of Queensland. “The size of these ...

An Israeli American man reportedly was kidnapped while hiking in the Amazon rainforest in Ecuador. Mickey Grossman, 64, a Yom Kippur War veteran, allegedly was captured Sunday by 15 armed gunmen whose ...