A diver on an expedition off the coast of Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, captured stunning footage showing the moment another swam alongside a sunfish. CIA Director John Ratcliffe breaks down the role of the ...

But they are under serious threat. Over the past decade, I've visited Pygmy clans in several Congo Basin countries, witnessing the destruction of their traditional lifestyle by the Bantu ...

Pygmy representatives have asked the United Nations to set up a court to try government and rebel fighters from the Democratic Republic of Congo for acts of cannibalism against their people. Sinafasi ...

August 19, 2014: UN observers in Congo reported that Pygmy tribe militiamen attacked and burned several Bantu villages in the Luba area of Katanga province between August 10 and 12. A Pygmy tribe ...

Photo from Daniel F. Hughes Plumptre’s pygmy chameleons have a “very large geographic distribution” from the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo across Uganda and into western Kenya ...

But Biranda and other members of the indigenous Pygmy community in Democratic Republic of Congo no longer have access to this idyllic life and the land that was once their home. In June 2022 ...

Survival International, an advocacy group for indigenous populations, says that across the Congo Basin Pygmies “face harassment, arrest, beatings, torture and even death at the hands of anti ...

The guardians of the Congo Basin, indigenous peoples known as Pygmies, are estimated to have lived in the tropical forest for as many as 50,000 years. Some 900,000 Pygmies remain dependent on its ...

Congolese President Felix Tshisekedi signed the new law on the Protection and Promotion of the Rights of Indigenous Pygmy Peoples. Four months ago, the Democratic Republic of Congo’s parliament ...

Schweinfurth made a thorough study of a settlement of Pygmies in North Central Africa in the valley of the Welle, a branch of the Mobangi tributary of the Congo, three degrees north latitude ...