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Uganda - Batwa Tribe - Bwindi Impenetrable Forest

A Batwa tribesman demonstrates how to access food kept in a Mwamba hut used for storage up in a tree. The Batwa now have a traditional village in the forest with the support of the Batwa Development Program. They were indigenous forest nomads before they were evicted from the Bwindi Impenetrable Forest in the mid nineties when it was made a World Heritage site to protect the mountain gorillas.

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Image Size: 4096x2731 / 3.2MB; Africa African Aitchison Andrew Andy BDP Bwindi Dr Experience Impenetrable Kanyina Kellerman Man Mukuno Mwamba National Park Program Scott Uganda bark batwa clothing community costume culture development dwellers elders forest foundation habitat house hunters hut indigenous nomad nomadic nomads old people pygmies rainforest storage tradition traditional tree tree house tribal tribe village
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A Batwa tribesman demonstrates how to access food kept in a Mwamba hut used for storage up in a tree. The Batwa now have a traditional village in the forest with the support of the Batwa Development Program. They were indigenous forest nomads before they were evicted from the Bwindi Impenetrable Forest in the mid nineties when it was made a World Heritage site to protect the mountain gorillas.