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 ...

Prior to matriculating at Brown, Hugo Lucitante ’19 was a protagonist in the class of 2018’s First Readings assignment — the 2014 documentary “Oil and Water.” “Oil and Water” told the stories of ...

Straddling the Ecuadorian-Colombian border reside the semi-indigenous communities of the Cofán. Calling themselves the a’i, this horticultural group is dependent on the waters of the Guamués and ...

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 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, ...

Alex Lucitante (left) and Alexandra Narváez led the legal battle against mining on their land Two indigenous activists from Ecuador who successfully fought against mining on their ancestral lands have ...

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 born in a Cofán village and grew up hunting, fishing and speaking Cofán, the language of an indigenous people from Ecuador of the same name. Borman says he also learned the English ...