Evicted from their ancestral forest homes three decades ago in a move to conserve wildlife, many of Uganda's Batwa people struggle for a more dignified way of life. On a hike into the Bwindi ...

KISORO, UGANDA — 20 years ago Uganda's Batwa, or pygmies, were evicted from the forest to make way for a national park. But now the impoverished Batwa are being allowed back as tour guides, showing ...

In Uganda, gorilla tourism is an economic engine. It benefits not only the mountain gorillas that the tourists track, but also the human communities in and around the forests in which the animals live ...

Kigali — Hunger could wipe out the Batwa ethnic group in Uganda unless urgent intervention is enforced, researchers have said. "Many Batwa are dying of hunger because they do not know how to survive ...

Twenty-two-year-old Alice Nyamihanda is the pride of her community of former Batwa pygmy forest-dwellers in Uganda. Her facial features reveal her origins, but her Western dress-sense and clarity of ...

Uganda's Batwa community are highly vulnerable; they don't own much land and often don't have access to capital. They were one of the earliest residents of the Equatorial Forest - consisting of Uganda ...

On a cold afternoon, Caleb Ngambeweza sits by a mud and wattle house belonging to one of his community members, with his eyes glued to the dense thick forest far ahead of him. Ngambeweza who says he’s ...

•Currently, these indigenous people take groups of paying tourists into their ancestral areas and in a choreographed performance act out how they once lived. •After their eviction, some families were ...