The Congo Basin's hunter-gatherer people have the secret to living well with the forest. While doing fieldwork in 2020, I remember walking with Indigenous elders Ferdinand Mbita and Félix Mangombe up ...
NGOs launch a two-year joint programme to promote rights and resilience of indigenous Baka people through education and conservation of natural resources. Yaounde, Cameroon, September 14, 2017: In the ...
Bernard Messono today lives by the roadside. A 28-year-old Indigenous Baka man from Elango village in Cameroon's East Region, he was forced out of his natural home in the forest by encroaching logging ...
In southeastern Cameroon, the Indigenous Baka people are helping protecting their forests with the Sapelli app. They spearheaded the design of this tool as part of a 2021 project launched in six ...
In late January, the Daily Mail published allegations that rangers working with African Parks at Odzala-Kokoua park in the Republic of Congo had beaten and raped Baka community members. In a statement ...
The local people of Eastern Cameroon particularly the indigenous Baka could not sit and watch as one of their most valuable trees disappeared. The moabi tree (Baillonella toxisperma), is threatened by ...
Phil Agland revisits the Baka Pygmy family he filmed 25 years ago in his BAFTA award winning documentary 'Baka: People of the Rainforest'. An extraordinary journey into the heart of the rainforest in ...