WAORANI, INDIGENOUS PEOPLE OF YASUNÍ

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The Waorani (Wow-rah-nee) are struggling against the onslaught of massive oil development in their ancestral Yasuni rainforest, and the destruction it brings. They are fighting to prevent further oil roads, drilling rigs and processing plants, in order to protect their health, their culture and formerly isolated rainforest they live in.

The Waorani have successfully defended their rainforest against outsiders for centuries. Because the Waorani used only a small amount of natural bounty of Yasuní, and they kept others out of their region, the unparalled biodiversity of Yasuní has been protected by the Waorani, and is still virtually intact. But it is threatened by oil development and deforestation. Now the Waorani are asking for our help in this monumnental fight to regain their rights and protect their land.