The son of Americans, Randy Borman was born and raised in an indigenous Cofán village in Ecuador and grew up hunting, fishing, and speaking Cofán. He is now one of the leading environmental advocates ...

A court in Ecuador’s Sucumbíos province has ordered that the mining concessions already in operation on territory claimed by the Cofán indigenous people, and those currently in the process of being ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Inside Ecuador’s Cuyabeno Wildlife Reserve, an Indigenous Cofán community has since the 1990s carried out an initiative that has contributed to an ...

Although he is only 21, Camilo Yoge has seen his indigenous tribe lose its culture, territory and traditions. Yoge, a member of the Cofan tribe, has seen farmers, ranchers and oilmen invade his ...

The recent decision by Ecuador’s highest court in favour of Indigenous people’s rights was a huge victory, not just for them but for nature too. The ruling by the country’s Constitutional Court, in ...

Randy Borman was never meant to be Cofán. And yet, from the moment he was born in 1955, deep in the Ecuadorian Amazon, he belonged to them. His parents, American missionaries, had come to translate ...

Surrounded by vegetation and with a warm climate that envelops tourists seeking rest, half an hour north of the city of Lago Agrio, in the Ecuadorian Amazon, is the Cofán-Dureno community that offers ...

The Cofán people in Ecuador watch over the forest to defend it from invaders. After studying in the U.S., Hugo Lucitante returned home to help. From left, forest guardians Graciela Quenama Lucitante, ...

Like any college student in the first week of fall quarter, Hugo Lucitante has a lot on his mind. He’s debating whether or not he can handle 20 credits at North Seattle College, struggling to scrape ...

It was the ultimate backwoods fixer-upper. A dedicated group of Nova Scotians has worked to restore a nearly century-old log cabin deep in the woods of southwest Nova Scotia that's considered part of ...