‘It’s our home’: Pygmies fight for recognition as forest protectors in new film

Mongabay
Feb 20, 2018, 8:40 am146 pts
The word “pygmy” conjures images of hunter-gatherers living deep in the Congo rainforest, far removed from the modern world. But that modern world is closing in on them, as the forests in which they live fall to provide the rest of the world with timber and make way for huge industrial farms. Now, the…

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