Baka People: Facing changes in African forests
Living in the Central African forests, the Baka hunter gatherers formed an organization called Okani (meaning “rise up” in Baka) to help train other communities in filming and story-telling techniques. This first film from the Baka People in Eastern Cameroon shows how they are coping with the impacts of climate change and the swift transformations of their habitat. This film is an Okani-Insight http://www.insightshare.org production, part of Conversations with Earth Initiative http://www.conversationsearth.org . It is one of several experiences around the world in which indigenous communities are using videos to voice their concerns. These projects were funded by UNDP’s human rights programmes through the Global Environmental Facility Small Grants Programme http://sgp.undp.org/
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November 4th, 2009 at 11:31 pm
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November 4th, 2009 at 11:31 pm
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Thank you for sharing this, Undp. There is a lot of ethnocentric views of people like this. You’ve shown the beauty and the ingeniuty and the artistic sense that the Baka have. It’s too bad there homeland is being deforested right from under their noses. I wish people realized the importance of preserving heritage and allowing people to choose how they wish to conduct thier lives. The Baka have the most honest sense of a true democracy there is. They are beautiful people.