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 ...

Cuevas de los Tayos, 'Cave of the Oilbirds,' isn't famous for bird-watching; it supposedly contains, or contained, a legendary golden library.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...