Our day to day programs, benefits these indigenous people well

The Batwa shares their stories on how they lived in the mountain gorilla habitat

The Batwa people are the original inhabitants of the Bwindi forest and they are believed to have stayed there for more than 300 years. In the year 1991, they were evicted from the forest in the create of the protected area. Unfortunately, this led them to start living a beggar’s life just outside the forest with limited resources that they were not accustomed to.

Most of the communities who lived in the area like the Bafumbira and Bakiga refer to them as uncivilized people due to their former way of life.

The Twa are extremely marginalized and ever since they were evicted from the forest, they have never owned land and they have become squatters on land where the owners do not see any significant form them.

Today, the Batwa earns a living from story telling ” how the lived with mountain gorillas, the way they behaved with other wildlife and demonstrating their culture to tourists, students  and researchers through our anti-poaching experience in the Bwindi impenetrable National park. In addition, the former poachers demonstrate alive different poaching snares  and all other tactics they used to catch wildlife