Baka People: Facing changes in African forests

[abdulbade]

if humans can live in forests, then humans can co exisit with animals in the wild.

[Fronika]

The original people, treated like dirt by those around them. 

[Melissa124444]

When our horrible economic system collapses and we find out we can't eat or drink money, we are going to run to people like the Baka to teach us how to survive...Their way of live is beautiful and the Western way is ugly, destructive and insatiable. Those of us who know this should band together and fight for what is right. The only True terrorists are those who destroy the planet and traditional ways of life and NOT the people trying desperately to save these pure things.

[germanyinthehouse]

@Melissa124444 This is true

[lapopo13]

@Melissa124444 If the western way is so ugly then get off the internet because the computer is western technology

[OyaRevolutionary]

@lapopo13 is that what u really think? Hahhahaaaa!

[lapopo13]

@OyaRevolutionary are you going to just laugh or prove me otherwise?

[estorpai]

I hope the Baka people have good weapon techniques to bomb all those invaders out of htier forest.I wonder what this is if it is not terrorism.Well,terrorising the weak is acceptable to this world ruled and controlled by evil people.

[MsNonita1]

When I lived in Eastern Cameroon, the Baka near me faced daily struggles with deforestation, having to go deeper and deeper into the forest to hunt for food. The animals in the area had become so sparse they could no longer afford to discriminate, and often faced penalties if they killed an endangered animal. And this is often where the fight against the bushmeat trade is taken to an illogical extreme, for the Baka hunt to avoid starvation, not to commercially exploit and profit from.

[caitlinw9337]

I wish i was thought of as a beautiful person from a wonderful culture too...

[NotaBeetleFan]

Thank you for sharing this, Undp. There is a lot of ethnocentric views of people like this. You've shown the beauty and the ingeniuty and the artistic sense that the Baka have. It's too bad there homeland is being deforested right from under their noses. I wish people realized the importance of preserving heritage and allowing people to choose how they wish to conduct thier lives. The Baka have the most honest sense of a true democracy there is. They are beautiful people.