1. Baka child climbing on big forest lianas. Food gathering Baka children

African Pygmies > Baka Pygmies > The Forest People

Natural Environment

Photos, texts and audio recordings
by Luis Devin

Soundscape: Greater Spot-nosed Monkey vocalizations
(Cercopithecus nictitans). In the background, African rainforest sounds.

2. Sitatunga (Tragelaphus spekii) in a clearing. 3. Group of forest elephants (Loxodonta cyclotis).

4. Rainforest trees and vines, along a path near a pygmy camp. Baka Pygmy camps

5. River in the Cameroonian rainforest. 6. Waterfalls in the Gabonese rainforest. Baka Pygmy net fishing

7. Bird on the bank of a creek in the middle of a clearing.

8. Dawn on the African rain forest.

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	HOME SECTION INDEX BACK Baka Pygmy rainforest (Central Africa), with photos and ethnographic notes (Rainforest of Cameroon, Gabon and Congo). Photos, texts and audio recordings by Luis Devin. Page URL: http://www.pygmies.org/baka/environment.php Photos, videos and sounds are available for licensing, both for multimedia use and paper publications. For the terms and conditions, contact the author from the Contact page. The time in the tropical rainforests of the Western Congo Basin, where the Baka Pygmy people live, is 05:40. Every minute, at least 25 hectares (250.000 m²) of forest are destroyed around the world (source: WWF). Go to the Baka Pygmies section index Copyright © 1998-2024 Luis Devin. All rights reserved.