THE PYGMY GENOCIDE
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The Pygmy Home and Environment
Click on the images below to view in fullscreen. Additional details are provided in the captions.
The region in which the African Pygmy's live. Uganda is not shaded in the map, but is another country in which Pygmy's live.
The greatest number of Pygmy's can be found in the highlighted regions shaded on this map.
This map presents the general location of each of the main tribes, along with few sub tribes.
Those Pygmy's not represented on the previous maps can be found in the Bwindi Impenetrable Forest in Uganda. Forest found in the lower left corner of Uganda.
The Bwindi Impenetrable Forest. Home of the Pygmy's for millennium.
Sign in the Bwindi Impenetrable Forest. This demonstrates the taking over of tribal lands for conservation efforts. These ended up harming the tribes more than they helped.
The kelly green areas show the rain forest as it is today in Central Africa. The pale green is where the forest used to be. The pale green regions are not entirely devoid of forests, however the density of trees and life is no where near where it was previously. The purple mark areas where trees have been cultivated to help protect deforestation.
Southern rain forest in Cameroon. Home of the Baka and other Pygmy's.
Baka Pygmy's in a southern Cameroon rain forest.
Rain forest in the Central Republic of the Congo that is home to many Pygmy's.
Map of the Ituri forest and where the Okapi Wildlife Reserve is
Artist Caption (Rebecca Blackwell): "A young Mbuti pygmy hunter returns with his day's catch, a forest antelope, in the Okapi Wildlife Reserve outside the town of Epulu, Congo"
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Baka
Mbuti
Sua
Twa/Batwa
Famous Pymies
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Ota Benga
Musa Makubasi
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