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Randy Borman
Randy Borman has spent most of his life in the rainforest. He was born in Shell Ecuador in 1955, the son of missionaries who moved there in the early 1950s to live with the indigenous Cofán. Raised as a Cofán, Randy spent much of his youth in the village of Dureno where most of the Cofán lived. He went to high school in Quito and attended a university in the U.S. for two years before returning to his home in the Ecuadorian forest. Randy returned to find that roads had been bulldozed into the jungle, game had been driven away, and the river was polluted. Where only 500 Cofán once lived, there were now 30,000 colonists. Randy traveled downriver deeper into Amazonia to establish a new hunting camp and home. In a short time, other Cofán families followed, seeking a return to the pristine life in the rainforest. A new Cofán village, Zabalo, was founded.
In part because of his leadership, strategic, and hunting skills, and because of his Western education, Randy has been an important leader for the Cofán, a proud nation of over 700 people trying to live with one foot in the old world and the other foot in the modern, Western world. Randy is married to Amelia Quenama, a Cofán who is an expert in the use of medicinal plants of the rainforest, and they have three sons.