The Echuya Batwa—often known as “keepers of the forest”—are an endangered tribe of forest-dwelling hunter-gatherer people. They lived peacefully off their land without any outside influence until 1991 ...

Three decades since the Batwa people in Uganda were evicted from their ancestral lands to create national parks, members of the group live in poverty and marginalization at the fringes of society.

The Batwa people are one of the oldest surviving Indigenous tribes in Africa. They live high in the mountain forests, straddling several East African countries. The Batwa are now also called ...

In the dense forests of western Uganda, a quiet crisis is unfolding--one that conservationists, cultural advocates, and community leaders warn could erase an entire people from living memory. The ...