Randy Borman (1955-2025): An unlikely guardian of the Amazon rainforest

Mongabay
Feb 19, 2025, 6:35 pm311 pts
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 the Bible into the Cofán language, but their eldest son took to the forest as though it were written into his…

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