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Quim Fabregas
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We arrived at the Baka Pygmy camp in an hour of broad daylight. Time as time does not exist in that place. It's a new camp from my last stay exactly two years ago, before the pandemic. You are about 500 m away from each other because some trees fell and that unfortunately caused some misfortune.
We arrived after walking a gentle trek for one hour, on this trip the difficulty is much less than others as it is in the dry season. Africa has two seasons, the dry and the rainy. The dry season runs from November to March, but currently climate change is making the weather a bit crazy.
In this case we were lucky that the terrain was of an easy level, without difficulty. When they reached the camp, there were only three or four pygmies. Around 80 pygmies live in this camp, a few years ago they exceeded 100 and more. Little by little as the day passed, they returned to the camp to work in the jungle. Today they are still "slaves" to the Bantus. They work for them for their meals and for the deforestation of the jungle. Outrageous in the 21st century.
Deforestation is doing a lot of damage in the eastern jungle of Cameroon, they are really the colony of the Baka Pygmies who have lived for centuries and centuries in their habitat, in their ecosystem in the middle of nature. They are hunter-gatherers, they live on what they find in the jungle. Currently they are sedentary nomads, they are almost always in the same place. A few decades ago, they traveled throughout the year to find places that would provide the necessary meals for all families.
The growths of animism still
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BAKA PIGMIES, LIVING IN THE JUNGLE IN THE 21ST CENTURYWe arrived at the Baka Pygmy camp in an hour of broad daylight. Time as time does not exist in that place. It's a new camp from my last stay exactly two years ago, before the pandemic. You are about 500 m away from each other because some trees fell and that unfortunately caused some misfortune.
We arrived after walking a gentle trek for one hour, on this trip the difficulty is much less than others as it is in the dry season. Africa has two seasons, the dry and the rainy. The dry season runs from November to March, but currently climate change is making the weather a bit crazy.
In this case we were lucky that the terrain was of an easy level, without difficulty. When they reached the camp, there were only three or four pygmies. Around 80 pygmies live in this camp, a few years ago they exceeded 100 and more. Little by little as the day passed, they returned to the camp to work in the jungle. Today they are still "slaves" to the Bantus. They work for them for their meals and for the deforestation of the jungle. Outrageous in the 21st century.
Deforestation is doing a lot of damage in the eastern jungle of Cameroon, they are really the colony of the Baka Pygmies who have lived for centuries and centuries in their habitat, in their ecosystem in the middle of nature. They are hunter-gatherers, they live on what they find in the jungle. Currently they are sedentary nomads, they are almost always in the same place. A few decades ago, they traveled throughout the year to find places that would provide the necessary meals for all families.
The growths of animism still
back to gallery