Jabruson / Ba'Aka Pygmies forest fire sends smoke into the canopy of Gilbertiodendron / Bemba (Gilbertiodendron deweurei) forest, Central African Republic.

Jabruson / Bambuti pygmies felling forest tree. Epulu Ituri reserve, DR Congo (formerly Zaire).

Jabruson / Bambuti pygmies cutting forest tree Epulu rainforest, Democratic Republic of Congo.

Pete Oxford / Ba'Kola Pygmies with traditional duiker hunting nets. Mbomo, Odzala-Kokoua National Park, Republic of Congo (Congo-Brazzaville), Africa, June 2013.

Pete Oxford / Ba'Kola Pygmies with traditional duiker hunting nets. Mbomo, Odzala-Kokoua National Park, Republic of Congo (Congo-Brazzaville), Africa, June 2013.

Steve O. Taylor (GHF) / Batwa Pygmies performing ritual dance. Wafanya, Democratic Republic of the Congo, 2008-2009.

Steve O. Taylor (GHF) / Batwa Pygmies, father and son foraging for food. Democratic Republic of the Congo, 2008-2009.

Steve O. Taylor (GHF) / Mbuti pygmies family portrait, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Africa, December 2011.

Steve O. Taylor (GHF) / Mbuti Pygmies initiation hunt, men with bow and arrows and another with a throwing net, Ituri Rainforest Democratic Republic of the Congo, Africa

Steve O. Taylor (GHF) / Group of Mbuti Pygmies looking about with bows before Mota hunting. This is a group bow and arrow hunting using beat method hunting. The dogs have wooden bells attached to its neck and are used to dri...

Jabruson / Ba'Aka Pygmies forest fire sends smoke into the canopy of Gilbertiodendron / Bemba (Gilbertiodendron deweurei) forest, Central African Republic.

Jabruson / Ba'Aka Pygmies forest fire sends smoke into the canopy of Gilbertiodendron / Bemba (Gilbertiodendron deweurei) forest. Central African Republic.

Jabruson / Mbuti pygmies in tree tops searching for wild honey, Epulu Rainforest Reserve, Democratic Republic of Congo (formerly Zaire)

Karl Ammann / Ba'ka pygmy in Cameroon, West Africa being tested for Ebola virus after eating infected gorilla meat. Close genetic correlation between humans and apes means that many of the same viruses and parasite...

Karl Ammann / Ba'Aka pygmy child with empty plate, South East Cameroon. Once provided with extra meat for trade with their Bantu neighbours, today many of the pygmies' hunting grounds are empty - the result of incr...

Karl Ammann / Ba'Aka pygmy mother and child, Ca,eroon, West Africa. The invasion of traditional forest refuges by logging companies and commercial bushmeat hunters jeopardises the lives of traditional forest-dwelle...

Karl Ammann / Ba'Aka pygmies carrying food to village along timber track. Logging roads, built to exploit remote forest areas, displace indigenous communities from their traditional forest lands and grant access t...

ANDREW MURRAY / Bayaka / Babenzele pygmies in hunting camp. Central African Republic