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 ...
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 ...
A chief from the Bakanga clan of Batwa living within view of Mount Kahuzi was asked in the 1970s to help delineate a boundary using surveyor’s chains. He agreed, not knowing that he was being made to ...
National Geographic honors champion of Burundi’s efforts to address land degradation. Land degradation and deforestation cost 4% of Burundi’s GDP every year. Rapid population growth and unsustainable ...