Photo gallery with soundscapes and quotes from the book The Forest Has You

BAKA PYGMIES - HUNTER GATHERERS (CAMEROON)

African Rainforest & Pygmy Peoples


Hunter gatherers, from Luis Devin's anthropological research in Central Africa (Baka Pygmies, Cameroon)
Moving through the African rainforest (Baka Pygmies, Cameroon).

"We march along in Indian file till sunset. In silence. Invisible, at least in the odourscape of the forest. We walk in water and on the fallen tree trunks emerging from the swamp. Then we're walking on a path that is quite wide, perhaps a track beaten by the elephants..."

Luis Devin, The Forest Has You. Story of an Initiation
Italian edition: La foresta ti ha. Storia di un'iniziazione
(Castelvecchi - LIT Edizioni)


Soundscape: rainforest insect calls and Southern
Tree Hyrax (Dendrohyrax arboreus) vocalizations.




Photo gallery about African Pygmies and the rainforest, with soundscapes from pygmy camps and the forest.

      Page URL: http://www.pygmies.org/rainforest-pygmies/photo-gallery.php?photo=7       Photos, texts and audio recordings by Luis Devin.
The time in the tropical rainforests of the Western Congo Basin, where the Baka and the other Pygmy peoples live, is 22:55.
Every minute, at least 25 hectares (250.000 m²) of forest are destroyed around the world (source: WWF).