For decades, Congolese officials have barred the Batwa from their ancestral lands in the name of preserving the critically endangered eastern lowland gorilla. But a new study suggests the Batwa were ...
The Echuya Batwa—often known as “keepers of the forest”—are an endangered tribe of forest-dwelling hunter-gatherer people. They lived peacefully off their land without any outside influence until 1991 ...
A recent study looks at two polarized characterizations of Indigenous people in Kahuzi-Biega National Park in the Democratic Republic of Congo: forest guardians vs. forest destroyers. The two ...