Echuya Batwa, commonly known as pygmies, are an endangered group of people around Echuya Forest Reserve in Kisoro and Kabale Districts of south-western Uganda ...

The ruling by the African Commission on Human and People’s Rights recognises Batwa as the best guardians of biodiversity in Kahuzi Biega National Park (PNKB) and calls on the Democratic Republic of ...

The SAGE initiative, a collaborative effort of a number of NGOs and universities from the global North and South led by IIED, aims to improve the governance and equity of protected and conserved areas ...

Aside from the lead petitioner, the eleven other petitioners were persons from the Batwa community. The petitioners asserted that the ancestors of the Batwa had historically owned and inhabited a ...

Photos: Kyagaba Edison The Batwa Pygmy trail of Uganda Who are the Batwa or Pygmy? Echuya Batwa, commonly known as pygmies ( they are called Pygmies because of their short height), are an endangered ...

This involves working together with the forest adjacent communities through the CFM framework to educate them on the need to protect the forest, supporting the establishment of community managed ...

Over the last three decades, Uganda’s forest cover has decreased significantly from 4.9 million hectares (24% of the total land area) in 1990, to an estimated 1.8 million hectares (9% of the total ...

Along with helping fishermen set up shoebill safaris in the Mabamba swamps, now a popular wildlife tourism activity, he has empowered Batwa groups in the Echuya Forest and is an ongoing ...

They are concerned they still own no land, are slowly losing their culture and knowledge systems, and living in abject poverty. “We have no proof that the land we live on now is ours. We can be ...

Other Batwa who were also evicted lived in the Echuya and Mgahinga rain forests,” he said. The Batwa are bitter about being evicted ...