In Uganda, the silent survival of the Pygmies in the shadow of the gorillas


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REPORTING. At what price should we save biodiversity? In Uganda, the Batwa Pygmies, on the margins of society, no longer have access to the forest now reserved for gorillas.





By our special correspondent in Uganda, Nasturtium Graby

For the preservation of the mountain gorillas, the Batwa Pygmies were sacrificed by the Ugandan government which drove them out of their forest.
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EThey are flooding social networks: videos of hilarious children wiggling and twitching to well-oiled choreography. Some are abundant on TikTok or Instagram and are not a legend. They say a lot about this discreet country that is Uganda. Nicknamed the pearl of Africa, this East African country, in the region of the great African lakes, is a nugget still out of sight.

In Uganda, a country colored with shades of green, because it is bursting with banana trees, mango trees or eucalyptus trees, we come across great apes in tropical forests, we bathe in lakes, we gallop on horseback with zebras, or we f…




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