We've barely entered the national park when our guide stops suddenly and holds up a hand to call for silence. His eyes gaze deep into the forest and he crouches. We do the same. Our hearts beat fast.

Down the foothills of Bwindi and Mugahinga impenetrable forests lives a small community of the Batwa Pygmies. The pygmies are a minority ethnic group belonging to the bushman family who formerly lived ...

Marsha Conn plans to help Batwa pygmies make art for profit. The Batwa need the income because their old ways of making a living have been denied them. Worse, they have to reshape their culture to fit ...

Deep in a rain forest in Equatorial Africa, the peaceful Batwa Pygmies were once known as ‘the keepers of the forest.’ But for generations, these people, known for their unusually short height, would ...

In Uganda, gorilla tourism is an economic engine. It benefits not only the mountain gorillas that the tourists track, but also the human communities in and around the forests in which the animals live ...

Dr. Scott Kellerman cited startling statistics Tuesday as he brought to Carson City his crusade to enhance medical care for Batwa pygmies in Uganda. A Rotarian formerly from the Grass Valley-Nevada ...

Today, it is a common belief among some sections of the public that Bakiga are brave people. But to the Batwa (pygmies), fighting the Bakiga was not as hard or dangerous as hunting a buffalo or lion.

NOT long after my settlement at Ndombe, the town of a remarkable monarch of the same name, the king of the Balunda tribes around Wissmann Falls, Central Africa, an odd-looking creature came up to my ...

KISORO, UGANDA — 20 years ago Uganda's Batwa, or pygmies, were evicted from the forest to make way for a national park. But now the impoverished Batwa are being allowed back as tour guides, showing ...

Nairobi — Hagumimana Kanyabichingi epitomises the once proud and independent Batwa Pygmies (also known as the Twa or forest people) who following evictions from the Lake Region forests of western ...

Pygmy traits independently evolved many times among different peoples around the world, because shorter heights may have helped them live in rainforests, researchers say. Subscribe to read this story ...

Makara the silverback was clearly having a bad day. As soon as he saw us, he rushed forwards with a piercing scream, waving his fist in the air. Our guide somehow stood his ground and raised his ...