Amazon Women on the Front Lines: The Waorani

Sep 17, 2015
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Meet the Waorani of the Ecuadorian Amazon. They are fighting for traditional life and championing alternatives to threats to their ancestral territory—one of the wildest, most biodiverse places on the planet.

The Waorani have lived on the fringes of Ecuador’s Yasuní National Park—one of the most biodiverse places on the planet—for thousands of years. Their ancestral territory overlaps significantly with the park. Like much of the neighboring rainforest, until recent decades this land was a pristine expanse of life-giving trees and clean-flowing rivers.