DJIBOT, Cameroon (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Sporting patchy bruises on her forehead and right cheek, Maria moves gingerly as her four young children chase each other in their pygmie camp on the ...

Survival International, a group campaigning for the rights of tribal people, has accused the World Wildlife Fund for Nature (WWF) of funding groups killing the Baka with impunity NAIROBI, Feb 8 ...

An ongoing WWF study to determine use zones of Baka pygmies in Boumba-Bek national park has recommended that the Bakas be granted more access to natural forest resources inside the national park. The ...

A few kilometres south of the resort town of Kribi lies the mouth of the Lobe River where a spectacular cascade discharges rainforest waters into the sea. Just visible on the horizon is the Kribi ...

Some 50 Pygmies of the Baka clan lead me single file through a steaming rain forest in Cameroon. Scrambling across tree trunks over streams, we hack through heavy undergrowth with machetes and cut ...

This kicks off a one month adventure in Africa! This week we're starting the adventure in Cameroon where we'll be visiting several tribes like the Baka Pygmies and the Mbororo Tribe. Michigan couple ...

Why the Pygmies of West Africa have such short stature, while neighboring groups don't, has been somewhat of a mystery. Now new research suggests unique changes in the Pygmy's genome have both led to ...

After spending four days with a crew filming a WWF project in south-east Cameroon, CNN anchor and correspondent Richard Quest comes away with a lot of respect for the global conservation organization.

NAIROBI, Feb 8 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - In the remote Central African rainforest, two major charities are battling over the future of some 50,000 pygmies, beset by poverty, hunger and alcoholism ...