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Protected forests, what future for the Pygmies?

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Kahuzi Biega Park, in the DRC.

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By: Charlotte Cosset Follow

The DRC is the second lung of the planet after the Amazon.

Its forests are essential carbon sinks.

They are also the habitat of an exceptional fauna and flora.

In the east of the country, in the Kahuzi-Biega National Park, lives a species of gorillas threatened with extinction.

But, traditionally, this protected site is also the living place of local communities, the Batwa, dependent on gathering and hunting.

The sanctuarization of the forest has relegated them to the edge of the park, in extreme destitution.

A situation that creates conflict.

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"Protected forests, what future for the Pygmies?",

a major report by Charlotte Cosset directed by Pauline Leduc.

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