The Yasuni National Park is in the Ecuadorian Amazon and considered to
be one of the most bio-diverse places in the world. Until 50 years
ago, when oil was discovered there it was almost completely
disconnected from the rest of Ecuador and the world. The Waorani, the
original indigenous people of the area, have fought to resist
conquistadors and other intruders through the centuries, the most
famous being Francisco de Orellana in search of El Dorado. The
Waorani, were first ‘peacefully’ contacted in the late 1950’s however
there were groups who rejected this contact, fled deeper into the
forest and still maintain voluntary isolation from the rest of the
world. Also inhabiting el Yasuni region are the Kichwa and Shuar…
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