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. If all this is cut, the Baka are doomed to lose their identity in general,” said Venant Messe a coordinator at Okoni area.
