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 ...

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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.

As two military-style helicopters touch down in a remote village in the jungles of Ecuador, masked men with guns hop out and scurry into a one-room schoolhouse. Inside they capture their target: a ...

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 ...

Huaorani Indians in Yasuni National Park carry the bushmeat they’ve killed with their blowgun — including three howler monkeys and one coati. Photo by Danita Delimont via Getty Images. Editor’s note: ...

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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 ...

Sharply descending over the dense Ecuadorean rain forest, our-five seater Cessna softly landed on a lonely grass strip, from where I was paddled by rustic canoe up the remotest Amazon by my ...

In my early thirties, I went to South America in a futile attempt to escape from myself. Another relationship had ended, and I was lonely and withdrawn. I thought that if I put myself in the middle of ...