First estimate of Congo Basin’s pygmy population comes with warning about increasing threat of deforestation

Mongabay
By <a class="author-link"…Jan 29, 2016, 2:54 pm295 pts
As many as 920,000 pygmies live in the forests of the Congo Basin, and deforestation of Central Africa’s rainforests is not only intensifying the threats to their lives but the survival of their very culture, a new study suggests. Pygmy communities occupy a large amount of territory in central Africa, from…

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