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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 ...

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 ...

"Originally, when the Batwa were living in the forest they were hunting down all the fauna and that was eradicating almost all the animals: the gorillas were in danger, the chimps were in danger," Mr ...

Prime Batwa heritage centre offers new life to their fading culture Saturday, April 11, 2020 — updated on July 21, 2020 ...

The Batwa community living in Bundibugyo District say their tribe is facing extinction due to increasing intermarriages. Before being resettled in Ntandi Town Council, Bundibugyo District, in 2007 ...

The Batwa community in Biega is not moving any time soon, says Krista, adding they would rather die on their 30 square kilometres of park land. And, after the numerous promises made in 2014 were ...

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 Congolese government violated the rights of the Indigenous Batwa community by evicting them about 50 years ago from their ancestral lands to expand one of the country's biggest national parks ...