When the Batwa left the park, the Grauer’s gorilla population more or less stayed the same. The recorded increase between 1978 and 1990 was minimal, the authors say, rising from 223 to 258 ...

By Aimable TwahirwaDider MakalLatoya Abulu In a historic 2022 ruling, the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights found that the forced eviction of the Indigenous Batwa community from ...

Former Atascocita resident Wendee Nicole carries Joyce, an 11-year-old Batwa girl Wendee Nicole has adopted from Uganda. Wendee Nicole sold her house and moved to Uganda to help the children there ...

The Commission’s Decision offers a lifeline to the Batwa people and other indigenous communities in the Congo Basin who have been battered for over half a century in the name of conservation. The ...

The Batwa people are one of the oldest surviving Indigenous tribes in Africa. They live high in the mountain forests, straddling several East African countries. The Batwa are now also called ...

The number of attacks by security forces on Indigenous Batwa villages in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s Kahuzi-Biega National Park has tripled in the past four weeks, according to the Forest ...

The Batwa people are thought to have lived in the Kahuzi-Biega forests for centuries. In 1970, the area was made a national park, and a decade later designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site .

Dr. Scott Kellermann, a long-time resident and physician in Nevada County who specializes in tropical medicine, works with the Batwa people in Uganda who have been displaced by the Bwindi Impenetrable ...

The ruling by the African Commission on Human and People’s Rights recognises Batwa as the best guardians of biodiversity in Kahuzi Biega National Park (PNKB) and calls on the Democratic Republic of ...

The Uganda-based firm Studio FH Architects teamed up with the one of the oldest indigenous tribes in Africa, the Batwa, to rebuild a permanent village after being displaced ...