An ongoing WWF study to determine use zones of Baka pygmies in Boumba-Bek national park has recommended that the Bakas be granted more access to natural forest resources inside the national park. The ...

DJIBOT, Cameroon (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Sporting patchy bruises on her forehead and right cheek, Maria moves gingerly as her four young children chase each other in their pygmie camp on the ...

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 ...

Martin Cradick's trip to Africa in 1992 with his wife, Su Hart, began as a vacation and led to a lifestyle change. The Cradicks spent years with the Baka Pygmies - residents of the central African ...

NAIROBI, Feb 8 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - In the remote Central African rainforest, two major charities are battling over the future of some 50,000 pygmies, beset by poverty, hunger and alcoholism ...

After spending four days with a crew filming a WWF project in south-east Cameroon, CNN anchor and correspondent Richard Quest comes away with a lot of respect for the global conservation organization.

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 ...

In the heart of the equatorial African jungle a group of Baka pygmies are confronting the destruction of their world. Trapped in the Neolithic age, the Baka have never left the thick vegetation. They ...

The hills of Britain and the jungles of Africa may have little in common, but don't tell that to Baka Beyond, the rollicking musical group that attempts some serious cultural bridge-building with its ...