Pygmies, who have been hunting in the Baka forests for about 5,000 years in Cameroon, are being left homeless by logging and forest destruction. The rainforests inhabited by the Pygmies are being rapidly depleted by timber production and mining. Integration efforts to settle the Pygmies, who are not allowed to live in or even enter the forests that have been turned into national parks, are not succeeding. "Every year 8 million hectares of forest are logged and threaten the way of life of the Baka, the Pygmies in general. We can find all the species there, all our food comes from the forest," said Dieudonné Tombombo, a local resident.

Source: The North Africa Journal January 08, 2022 15:49 UTC