For generations, the Baka pygmies of Cameroon have been totally reliant on the rainforest and its resources. But their way of life is being threatened by the destruction of the natural habitat.

Liberté Pygmée is an artistic and socio-environmental project carried out at the request of a Baka Community in the Dja Biosphere Reserve in eastern Cameroon. The fundamental historical changes the ...

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 ...

Betti, J.L. 2004. An ethnobotanical study of medicinal plants among the Baka pygmies in the Dja Biosphere Reserve, Cameroon. African Study Monographs 25(1): 1-27. Betti, J.L. and S.R.Y. Mebere. 2011.

The shipment of more than 100 pygmy chameleons from Cameroon in Africa was intercepted hidden inside a box of snakes at Heathrow Airport in 2020. Humberside Police said, following the seizure ...

Did you have the opportunity to speak with Baka pygmies? We spoke to them as much as we could ... What souvenirs are you taking home from Cameroon? I will like to take home some souvenirs but I do not ...

A baby pygmy hippo living at Khao Kheow Open Zoo in Thailand has become a viral sensation. The 2-month-old pygmy hippopotamus named Moo Deng was born in July, according to NBC News, and photos and ...

“This result suggests that Bantu-speakers living in Cameroon and across Africa today do not descend ... hunter-gatherers like the Baka and Aka groups traditionally known as “pygmies.” One of the ...

Cameroon and Nigeria are heading up the conservation ... safe zones in an attempt to regrow the population. The Borneo pygmy elephant is the smallest elephant in Asia. While every elephant ...

As a young student, Aristide Kamla had “big plans” when he traveled to Lake Ossa in Cameroon to conduct his master’s degree ...

Also contributing to the charm of Middelvlei are our donkeys, Port and Jerepigo, two potbelly pigs Polla and Dolla, Cameroon pygmy goats and several mountain tortoises - most of the latter have been ...

Among the discoveries along the way is the German bridge dating from the German colonial era in Cameroon, giving a panoramic view to ... canoe on the lobe river to reach namikoumbi to visit the pygmy ...