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 ...

QUITO, Nov 18 (Reuters) - Ecuador's Shuar Arutam indigenous people said on Friday they will not allow mining on their territory, threatening a large copper mining operation in the Andean country ...

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.

Shuar group in the park of Logroño, Ecuador. Wikimedia Commons/Jlh249. Some rights reserved. According to the Ecuadorian philosopher Bolívar Echeverría, modern ...

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 ...

We have two fascinating conversations about forests in the Americas for you on this podcast episode: the first is the story of how the Shuar Indigenous community in Ecuador recently won a major ...

Indigenous Shuar and Achuar communities participated in a thorough consultation process to ensure that the reserve was meeting their vision for the future of the area. See All Key Ideas Ecuador ...

In a project that blended anthropology, biology and psychology, researchers explored disgust behaviors among Ecuador's indigenous Shuar people. When the pungent smell of rotting food sends a ...