Nemonte Nenquimo, from the Amazonian region of Ecuador, takes part in the Restore Nature Now protest in London on 22 June 2024. Photograph: Benjamin Cremel/AFP/Getty Images The Waorani leader says millennia of living in harmony with their surroundings give Indigenous groups unique insights into the consumerist west Every Waorani child knows the story of the boa’s mouth. How the snake inches forward, watching, its movements almost imperceptible, before it strikes, swallowing