Hunter-collecting people of the Congo basin are the secret to living well with the forest.
While in 2020, the local elders, Ferdinand Mbbita and FĂ©lik Mangombe, walking in the woods in the woods in Cameroon, walking with a heavy black ant and walking with a cameroon, we always talked to monkeys when leaving this way. We once came across a gorilla traces.
Simon Hoyte
This road, near the DCA River in the southern region of Cameroon, slept near the small village of Bemba. The villagers were regularly used by the road to find hungry hunters, finding forestry, work in farms, working in farms or starting fishing or hunting.
A year later, the road was unrecognizable when he returned to his camera to stay again in the village. Intense vegetation, wood cut, rivers were restricted. The road was now an industrial way, it was an industrial way to chop trees in a large area behind the village for a year.
It has been changed to the places where the trees and honey they found for damage to the damage, Mbito and Mangombe drugs. We saw animal traces here; The only traces we can see now were the ones with trucks. “Baku has been dead,” he said, he did what he saw.
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This story is not unique. At least 40% The forests of the Cameroon are separated for the introduction. Add to mining companies, sports hunting companies and these concessions that provide a great agro. They cut the forests and set up rubber and palm oil. This Social and environmental effects was destructive.
I lived in the village of Baka, Southeastern Camera for a long time between 2019 and 2021. This is a small village of 70 people. The number of Baku is generally around 40,000. These are one of the many dependent communities in the region, but the hunters are collecting.
Simon Hoyte
First had to spend a lot of time building confidence because I am sure that society could understand Agree with my researchAims to understand the society’s forest and conservation relations. I learned the tongue over time. People with fishing, hunting, hunting and walks, eating them with them, joined the ceremonies and discussed their relationship with the forest. During this time, the worlds opened me.
I It published an article about this experience Author along with FĂ©lix Mangombe. Baka sharing experience is a valid forest management and conservative technique that can change how the forest is used.
Protection damage
Security schemes can cause destructive social and environmental impacts. Cameroon 54 conservation parks and their periform, 70% It is associated with the mandatory displacement of people living in the area. The so-called “Protection refugees“Their lands have been created because they become a conservation area. (There was no research for how many” protective refugees “in the Cameroon.)
If the communities are physically and psychologically cut from the forests they live so long, this may cause Poverty and alcoholism. Puts a way for people to fall environmentally harmful activities such as biodiversity of wild nature.
There is a change in the world to gradually up to the lower upper strategies protect forestsIt remains the main player in which the living in the landscapes. Unfortunately this is cooperation Often bad things are doneIt is trying to monitor the design and implementation of projects with large organizations or governments.
Related to the forest
Simon Hoyte
For at least the 1980s, sign-in concessions, a large sports hunting area and protected area with DJA limited the people of Baku, which has access to Beman’s forests. However, they kept a strong connection with him, and the forest is still the basis of their personalities. They believe that the car is created by the forest. They constantly interact with the permanent livelihoods and contact the spirits of forest spirits and the ancestors who travel the forest.
This close relationship means that the forest in the forest resources of the car and supported the forest in a long run. For example, they do not believe that the trees or animals should not be touched unless it is allowed. They should do not give back or give back because they take it.
It is believed to share the final road to get joy. The elders told us:
If the forest shares correctly, everyone will live well.
Because they consider themselves part of the forest, the welfare of people has no difference from the welfare of the forest. Sharing should take place with other people, forest spirits and animals, as well as ancestors and future generations. Intangible things like laughter and ceremonies are also actively shared.
In practice, these items are placed in order to share items, the free range of items and encourage collective happiness.
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Baka is often entered, sees a sport hunter, sports, animals and lands as destructive because they have excessive and shares. Given that these activities do not mean life without the forest of Baka, it is regarded as a danger.
Share the woods
The lesson to learn from Baka is that the protection should not be based on biodiversity targets or achieving a certain amount of carbon. A forest is a social view. Sharing responsible for the resources and benefits between all those who use the forest protects the whole system.
The road I walked with Mbbita and Mangombe now faced partially, reminded him of the ability to fight back. However, the wounds in the woods remain in the woods, and Bemba Baku is waiting for the arrival of the next outsiders.
