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Expelling Indigenous Batwa from Their Lands Did Not Help Endangered Gorillas, Study Finds

For decades, Congolese officials have barred the Batwa from their ancestral lands in the name of preserving the critically endangered eastern lowland gorilla. But a new study suggests the Batwa were ...
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Africa human rights commission says displacing indigenous Batwa in DRC violate rights

The African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights (ACHPR) on Tuesday released a landmark decision declaring that the displacement of the indigenous Batwa people from their ancestral lands within the ...
Mongabay

Indigenous Batwa win human rights victory over eviction from DRC park

The African Commission on Human and People’s Rights has found that the violent forced eviction of the Indigenous Batwa community from Kahuzi-Biega National Park in the Democratic Republic of Congo was ...
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Park guardians or destroyers? Study dissects 2 narratives of DRC’s Indigenous Batwa

A recent study looks at two polarized characterizations of Indigenous people in Kahuzi-Biega National Park in the Democratic Republic of Congo: forest guardians vs. forest destroyers. The two ...