Congo’s Last Forest Dwellers Fight for Survival

FEATURE / COEXISTANCE

The Mbuti of the Ituri Rainforest have resisted pressure to assimilate, but their traditional, nature-rooted way of life remains threatened by armed groups, poachers, and extractive industries.

Words / Robyn Huang
Photography / Matt Reichel

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Mbuti: Congo’s Last Forest Pygmies Persist Despite Violence and Loss
Mbuti: Congo’s Last Forest Pygmies Persist Despite Violence and Loss

The Mbuti Pygmy people of the Congo’s Ituri Rainforest have largely avoided external pressures to abandon traditional practices and integrate into modern society, but their way of life is continuously at risk.

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