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 ...

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 ...

Anthropologists estimate the Baka hunter-gatherer culture has endured for over 40,000 years, and Central Africa’s Pygmy population – somewhere in the region of 500,000 to 900,000 people – is on a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Pygmies women and children in the south of Cameroon on February 21, 2017. The girl in white is pregnant and abandoned by her ...

Yaounde — As Lysette Mendum listens to the sound of bulldozers crashing through the forest clearing a road to a mining site near her small village of Assoumdele in the Ngoyla-Mintom forest block in ...

Survival International has lodged a formal complaint to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) against WWF in Cameroon for violating the human rights of the indigenous Baka ...

MAYOS, Cameroon (AP) — The morning sun filtered through the forest canopy, casting dappled light on this village in Cameroon. For the Baka Indigenous community, it was a timeless image. Sign up for ...