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In 1991, national parks were established across Rwanda, Uganda, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo to protect the severely endangered mountain gorillas that roamed the Virunga Mountains (from a ...

Over five years ago, Simako Amos and Kedres Ntezitchi, two elder members of Uganda’s Batwa tribe, travelled east from the Kabale district to the country’s capital, Kampala, on an eleven-hour bus ride.

One hundred words. That’s all 17-year-old Joyce Orishaba of Rancho Bernardo was allowed to use to convey the most powerful memories in her life. And it got her published in the New York Times. Stream ...

Are Indigenous people inherently better at caring for natural areas, or does nature need to be protected from them? Both of these reductive stereotypes are often repeated, but neither gives the whole ...

The Batwa community living in Bundibugyo District say their tribe is facing extinction due to increasing intermarriages. Before being resettled in Ntandi Town Council, Bundibugyo District, in 2007, ...

The word 'conservation' sends warm fuzzies pulsing through the hearts of greenies. Yet with conservation of the environment often comes the neglect of the indigenous communities that have been there ...