Pygmies News

Documenting the African elephant’s ‘last stand’: Q&A with filmmakers Cyril Christo and Marie Wilkinson

by John Cannon 21 May 2018

“Walking Thunder” can feel like a family trip around the continent of Africa — if your parents were award-winning photographers and explorers. The mesmerizing film about the African elephant by…

‘It’s our home’: Pygmies fight for recognition as forest protectors in new film

by John Cannon 20 February 2018

The word “pygmy” conjures images of hunter-gatherers living deep in the Congo rainforest, far removed from the modern world. But that modern world is closing in on them, as the…

First estimate of Congo Basin’s pygmy population comes with warning about increasing threat of deforestation

by Mike Gaworecki 29 January 2016

As many as 920,000 pygmies live in the forests of the Congo Basin, and deforestation of Central Africa’s rainforests is not only intensifying the threats to their lives but the…