 I always feel at home wherever I find myself in Africa. Pygmy people are ethnic groups whose average height is usually short. I guess I'm also one of them. There are 120,000 pygmies in the world. The pygmies are known to have an intimate relationship with the forest because it's their home for centuries. This is the Bihoma area. And in the Bihoma area, we have two tribes. Those are the Bachiga. Then there are also Batwa people. The Batwa are the people who used to stay in the forest. The pygmies can be found in Rwanda, Burundi, Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Zambia, Gabon, Angola. But never did I know that in Uganda pygmies also exist. In Uganda, they call them the Batwa. We have been staying in Vin National Park since 1930. Then in 1990, they were advised to come out of the forest because the government of Uganda wanted to conserve the forest. Then it had to do, let the people come out of the forest. Then the forest had to remain with animals, no people. But it's sad to say that currently they are on the edge of disappearing. They used to stay in the forest to own the forest. But because the government wanted to sell mountain gorillas and other things, the Batwa were chased in the forest without any compensation. We are here advocating for the Batwa in order to be developed. We developed them through education. We have a charitable organization which we use to make fundraising or to get a fund from outside. From the world wishers, the people who are interested in conservation can do the notion of fundraising to help these people to go to school. Because when the generation don't go to school, they will always remain poor. And they were owning the forest. No, they don't own the forest anymore. They don't own the forest anymore. So what did they do outside? They stay outside. They have a land that was given to them by an environmental organization. They are regarded to be the poorest in our area. They are the poorest people in our area. They don't own anything. When you go and see where they sleep, they sleep. Some of them sleep in this kind of houses. So when you visit their settlement, you feel unhappy. But using the tourists who come to see gorillas and the tourists know that they are taking place when the wishers are already supporting them. So I want to tell you guys something. Where we are right now, where we stand is Uganda. I don't know if you guys can see the hill right in front of me. That's the end of Uganda. Behind it is Congo DRC. And let me tell you one thing. I have been to Goma and Goma was so green. When I was here, I was like, why do I feel like I'm in Goma? It's giving me a massive vibes. So when the tour guide said, hey, this is just Uganda and then this place is Congo because I was right. Where am I going right now? I'm actually going to see pygmies. According to Dubinsky, he says they are world's shortest people. I don't know about that. I don't know where Dubinsky got that from. Come along with me. Let's go meet the pygmies. But let me tell you one fun fact. The pygmies used to stay in the forest where the gorillas are. When Uganda wanted to conserve the forest, they decided to kick them out. Let me use that word, kick them out so that they will be able to reserve the forest so that the gorillas can live forever without going extinct. Basically, the pygmies are now back in town, which I know and believe that they are not used to the lifestyle they are living right now. We are here where the pygmies are. We can see some of them right under the cave. I hope they become nice to us. I hate to film people when they are sitting down cold. But you know what I have to do this for you guys. Let's go. Since the battle left in the forest 30 years ago, the battle have been intermarried with the local people. And the battle have been eating the same food like we ate. The battle are no longer very short. Some are short, others are tall. But still, their understanding remains for battle. When you study them and live with them and see how they are living, they are quite different from the Bachiga people. The clap of the hands is a welcoming clap. It's called jeffra. It's called jeffra. The mutwa was born in the forest. And we call him the battle chief in our cave. He is the head of the cave. It's called Jackson also born in the forest. Who gave you the name Jackson? When they left in the forest, they had to start going in our churches. In the forest, they had their own church. But when they left in the forest, they had to start going in our churches. So he got it from our Anglican church of Uganda. I don't know how to say it. He had a different name. What was the forest name? Chomukama. Chomukama. So there is an arrangement of how they would stay in their caves. When you want to sleep in a cave, this would be a bed. These are African giant fun leaves. And this would be a bed of a battle chief. And you would be having his fire. It would help him to hit the legs. What? So this is what we use it to cover cover ourselves with. It's not a skirt? For them in the forest, this is home enough. They will be having some skin and back claws. What about the legs? The legs would always be there to make sure, because they would walk on a bare foot and it would be very cold. So when he puts it close to his feet, it would be very cold. I think they need to call me the forest man because the whole of today I've been moving through forest tracking gorillas and now I need to go find where the pygmies live in the forest. Okay. Let's just go. But they used to live deep in the forest than this one. But they are currently a bit closer to the community and are on their way to go find them. Most welcome to the Batoa Batoa forest. These people stay in the forest and this is the forest cemetery. When one of them die for them, they used to use this to cover themselves in the forest. They would bring the dead person put him here when the head is facing down the leg is facing up they would bury like that they would bury one here another on the other side another on the other side. So where you are standing have humans where you are standing has people buried and they would do make fire here and they would do make fire here to protect the animals against the dead person not eat the dead person they would be having fire side of the forest forest cemetery. We are now going to walk and meet their traditional dance. Be the church where they would play their gold especially when they are going to hunt their gold would bless them to get the animals and sometimes they would use them to get the blessings the blessings would be true so when they play in this church they would always kill the animals when they are going to hunt now is playing who is she praying to playing their gold they call him Nyaving Nyaving is their gold of the forest whom they used to play to get the animals to meet they would get blessings when they are going to hunt they would get the back cross from this tree they would get the back cross from this tree the back cross would be got from this tree so this would be so what she is holding has come from the tree back cross they don't wash it they don't wash it just keep it keep putting it on the sun this one and the skin of the animals which they would eat they used to hunt forest bush pigs daikers and monkeys where the company meet they would eat soon they no longer live in the forest they decided to show me their lifestyle when they used to live in the forest and I believe that was quite interesting this is how they used to comb their hair when they live in the forest but where do you get this form this one so it's the same like this one same thing the pygmies are hunter-gatherers and one thing about their hunting is that they would first make noise to confuse the animal hunt it down and on their way back they would sing in the celebration of a great hunt the food that they hunt among the whole community these people they would stay most of their time hunting in the forest and they would come when they are tired and sexual dormant they would chew this type of the bark of the tree and they would become sexually active change it while you are eating change it this one I take it home I want to get for you the question give me some take it home the bark of it acts as African variable but you can see that they have always destroyed it from this side they always sell it to the people I need of it they always use it that's super crazy man never knew they live in the forest and they found everything that makes their life easier and better give me some man I need it ok thank you I save it too many what do I do I eat it how how do I do it like this how do I do it how do I do it how do I do it how do I do it you can look it with tea and then this one this would be the battle community these hearts would be the battle community they used to have the forest tree house the forest tree house would be a hut where they would live their children when they are going to hunt and already man like a grandfather or grandmama would keep there with a bow and a nalow to protect to protect the young one against the wild animals it's always up so that the animals cannot easily climb there to take the children away when the plants have gone to hunt where you see the smoke that means fire is coming so it would be teamwork robbing two sticks together to make fire to not be easy how do I do it how do I do it they would come the fire so they used the fire for smoking it's going to smoke now someone is going to smoke also they would use the fire for harvesting honey out of your own natural habitat it's extremely tough hence the tougher life of this pygmy is living in this part of Uganda and it's about time the government compensate and empower them so that they will be able to live happily in their new found home I hope you all like this video share so that others can learn something new from this video my name is Mr Ghana Baby please help us reach 1.5 million by liking and subscribing to this youtube channel I'll see you all in the next one I am Maya