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

BAKA PYGMIES - PYGMY WITH ANTELOPE (CAMEROON)

African Rainforest & Pygmy Peoples


Pygmy with antelope, from Luis Devin's anthropological research in Central Africa (Baka Pygmies, Cameroon)
Baka Pygmy hunter with an antelope on his shoulders, coming back from a hunting trip in the rainforest (Baka Pygmies, Cameroon).

"Lungo la strada, sul sentiero che riconduce all'accampamento, ognuno cammina con il suo carico di selvaggina e di emozioni, ognuno segue i propri pensieri senza emettere un fiato. Sul sentiero di casa, ognuno porta indietro qualcosa. Un'antilope, un cesto di frutti selvatici. Ognuno si porta a casa una storia da raccontare..."

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

Soundscape: Greater Spot-nosed Monkey vocalizations
(Cercopithecus nictitans). In the background, African rainforest sounds.



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=12       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 04:09.
Every minute, at least 25 hectares (250.000 m²) of forest are destroyed around the world (source: WWF).