The indigenous Shuar, native to Ecuador and Peru, have been portrayed as headhunting savages. This tribe no longer performs the ritual of shrinking heads, a practice largely misunderstood. Although ...
Ecuador’s National System of Protected Areas now includes the 5,497-hectare (13,583-acre) ancestral Tiwi Nunka Forest in the country’s south. The Shuar Indigenous community of El Kiim, with the help ...
If you liked this story, share it with other people. A temporary replacement for Wachapá was put in place after he was detained on December 21 during a raid on his organization’s headquarters. Wachapá ...
Morona-Santiago, Ecuador – The death of a police officer during a standoff between military and indigenous Shuar people in a takeover attempt of a mining camp in Ecuador’s southern Amazon on December ...
Shuar group in the park of Logroño, Ecuador. Wikimedia Commons/Jlh249. Some rights reserved. According to the Ecuadorian philosopher Bolívar Echeverría, modern ...
First photo (from left): Mr. Vicente Tsakimp, Lead Coordinator of the Warintza Project Strategic Alliance, Mr. Agustín Kayuk, Leader of the Shuar Warints Center, Mr. Federico Velásquez, President ...
Elevated immune function during childhood results in as much as 49 percent growth reduction in Ecuador's indigenous Shuar population, researchers report. Elevated immune function during childhood ...
Ecuadorian Amazon (Photo by Dallas Krentzel, CC by 2.0) Ecuadorian Amazon (Photo by Dallas Krentzel, CC by 2.0) More than 100 organisations have signed a letter repudiating mining companies for ...
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