Baka People: Facing changes in African forests

Living in the Central African forests, the Baka hunter gatherers formed an organization called Okani (meaning "rise up" in Baka) to help train other communities in filming and story-telling techniques. This first film from the Baka People in Eastern Cameroon shows how they are coping with the impacts of climate change and the swift transformations of their habitat. This film is an Okani-Insight http://www.insightshare.org production, part of Conversations with Earth Initiative http://www.conversationsearth.org . It is one of several experiences around the world in which indigenous communities are using videos to voice their concerns. These projects were funded by UNDP's human rights programmes through the Global Environmental Facility Small Grants Programme http://sgp.undp.org/

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Nonprofits & Activism

Tags:

• Participatory
• video
• Indigenous
• people
• UNDP
• Insight
• Conversations
• Earth
• Climate
• Change
• Forest
• Global
• Environment
• Baka
• People
• Cameroon

[abdulbade]

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

[lapopo13]

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

[OyaRevolutionary]

@lapopo13 is that what u really think? Hahhahaaaa!

[lapopo13]

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

[germanyinthehouse]

@Melissa124444 This is true

[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.

[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...