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May 9-10, 20091. Wide of Batwa people singing and dancing.2. Mid shot of a Batwa woman smoking a pipe 3.Various shots of children being served a local brew.4. Mid shot of Batwa elder5. Close up of...\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003eKisoro District, South-West Uganda. May 9-10, 2009\u003cbr/\u003e1. Wide of Batwa people singing and dancing.\u003cbr/\u003e2. Mid shot of a Batwa woman smoking a pipe \u003cbr/\u003e3.Various shots of children being served a local brew.\u003cbr/\u003e4. Mid shot of Batwa elder\u003cbr/\u003e5. Close up of Batwa man preparing marijuana.\u003cbr/\u003e6. Various shots of an elderly man and a Batwa man smoking and drinking local brew.\u003cbr/\u003e7. SOUNDBITE: (Kifumbira) Kalori Erisha, Batwa tribe member\u003cbr/\u003e\"One day while we were in the forest, we saw people coming up to us with machine guns and they told us to get out of the forest. Now they threw us here in the camps, and we are suffering from disease and hunger with no one to help us as a result of the eviction.\"\u003cbr/\u003e8. Wide shot of Mgahinga National Park.\u003cbr/\u003e9. Wide shot of buffalos at Mgahinga National park.\u003cbr/\u003e10. Various shots of Ugandan game rangers patrolling through the forest.\u003cbr/\u003e11. SOUNDBITE: (English) Pointious Ezuma, Senior Warden, Mgahinga National park,\u003cbr/\u003e\"From 1992, when this area was designated as a national park, the people were now moved out of this area, this all was actually cultivated, so they moved them out, of course they (note: refers to Hutus and Tustsi tribemen who cultivated the land) were compensated during that time, so we now want this to actually revert to its original natural state.\"\u003cbr/\u003e12. Various shots of Batwa women and children outside their makeshift houses.\u003cbr/\u003e13. Wide shot of Batwa children carrying bundles of beans from the fields.\u003cbr/\u003e14. Various shots of a Batwa woman and her children digging land.\u003cbr/\u003e15. SOUNDBITE: (Kifumbira) Annet Nsekoye, a member of the Batwa tribe,\u003cbr/\u003e\"The neighbouring farmers call us to work in their farms and in return at the end of the day they give us food.\"\u003cbr/\u003e16. Various shots of Batwa children and a woman drinking local brew outside their makeshift houses.\u003cbr/\u003e17. Various set up shots of Penina Zaninka, the Coordinator of the United Organisation for Batwa Development in Uganda.\u003cbr/\u003e18. SOUNDBITE: (English) Penina Zaninka, the Coordinator of the United Organisation for Batwa Development in Uganda,\u003cbr/\u003e\"I would tell everyone who would help, to come in and help the Batwa and mainly the government to compensate them (Batwa tribe) for their ancestral land that they lost - that was Mgahinga and Bwindi National Parks. Since then the Batwa have been living miserably yet they had their own home land.\" \u003cbr/\u003e19. Wide shot of Kisoro town.\u003cbr/\u003e20. Various shots of Mgahinga Gorilla National Park entrance.\u003cbr/\u003e21. SOUNDBITE: (English) Salapio Rukundo, Ugandan State Minster for Tourism,\u003cbr/\u003e\"What is important is that now we are trying to make the best use of the parks. How do we improve the tourism products? Be they animals, we would like to ensure that conservation is at its best but also ensure that they are developed as tourism products. Then we promote the country and get more visitors, then we get more money in flows, then we can now help the people around the parks.\"\u003cbr/\u003e22. Wide shot of people going to the market in Kisoro town.\u003cbr/\u003e23. Various shots of people at Kisoro market.\u003cbr/\u003e24. Wide shot of a Batwa girl picking up empty plastic bottles at Kisoro.\u003cbr/\u003e25. Mid shot of a Batwa woman selling empty bottles.\u003cbr/\u003e26. Wide shot of William Harerimana, Kisoro District speaker\u003cbr/\u003e27. SOUNDBITE:(English) William Harerimania, Kisoro District speaker, \u003cbr/\u003e\"The central government has not helped these people really to settle down. And we have a problem of these people. They have now come to town, they are now begging, so we are asking the central government through the Uganda Wildlife Authority to find a new settlement for the Batwa people.\"\u003cbr/\u003e28. Wide shot of Batwa people walking past their makeshift houses.\u003cbr/\u003e29. Mid shot of a Batwa child with a stick in the mouth.\u003cbr/\u003e30. SOUNDBITE:(Kifumbira) Kalori Erisha, Batwa tribe member,\u003cbr/\u003e\"Our suffering continues because we keep on missing what we used to enjoy in the forests like wild honey and our medicinal plants. I have even lost my sight because I am not able to treat it with our herbal medicines.\"\u003cbr/\u003e31. Wide shot of Batwa children outside a makeshift house.\u003cbr/\u003eUganda's Batwa tribe is declining in numbers and living in poverty - and the future appears to be bleak.\u003cbr/\u003eOriginally hunters, the Batwa people walked the forests, but their land has been seized by outsiders and they are now forced to beg or scrape out a living.\u003cbr/\u003eSinging and dancing - the Batwa people try to forget their impoverished surroundings, and seek comfort in a local brew and marijuana.\u003cbr/\u003eIn 1991 the Uganda Wildlife Authorities drove thousands of members of the the Batwa tribe from their only known habitat found in South-Western Ugandan forests.\u003cbr/\u003eIt was an attempt to set up National Parks to protect the habitat of the endangered mountain gorillas.\u003cbr/\u003e\"One day while we were in the forest, we saw people coming up to us with machine guns and they told us to get out of the forest. Now they threw us here in the camps, and we are suffering from disease and hunger with no one to help us as a result of the eviction,\" laments Kalori Erisha, an 89 year-old Batwa tribesman.\u003cbr/\u003eWith no other way of life known to the Batwa tribe, many were forced to seek refuge in conservation camps around Uganda, destroying their age old way of life and existence in the forests.\u003cbr/\u003eAlcoholism and drug abuse became a determining factor in this new vicious circle for the Batwa people who become marginalised, leaving no hope to return to their traditions and cultures for the emerging generations.\u003cbr/\u003e\"From 1992 when this area was gazetted as a national park, the people where now moved out of this area, this all was actually cultivated, so they moved them out, of course they were compensated during that time, so we now want this to revert to its original natural state.\" says Pointious Ezuma, the Senior Warden at Mgahinga National park.\u003cbr/\u003eSubsequent to their evictions from the forests, the Batwa people ended up living in shabby camps and settlements along the national parks and making their way to neighbouring farms to search for any work they can get in order to survive.\u003cbr/\u003e\"The neighbouring farmers call us to work in their farms and in return at the end of the day they give us food.\" explains Annet Nsekoye, a member of the Batwa tribe.\u003cbr/\u003eFears of being evicted again prevent the Batwa people from investing in more permanent structures around their current refuge areas, while the Ugandan government shows no desire to resettle or re-compensate the Batwa people for the loss of their ancestral lands.\u003cbr/\u003e\"I would tell everyone who would help to come in and help the Batwa and mainly the government to compensate them for their ancestral land that they lost that was Mgahinga and Bwindi National Parks, since then the Batwa have been living miserably yet they had their own home land,\" says Penina Zaninka, Coordinator of the United Organization for Batwa Development in Uganda set up to assist the Batwa tribe. \u003cbr/\u003eAlmost two decades after their eviction, the Batwa people still remain conservation refugees in an attempt to save the endangered habitat of the mountain gorilla, where many Batwa used to live.\u003cbr/\u003eIt's estimated there are some 700 mountain gorillas remaining in the world, half of which reside in Uganda. \u003cbr/\u003eClassified as an endangered species due to the many threats of climate change, habitat loss, poaching, human disease and civil war, management of these remaining few determines their existence. But the Batwa appear to have been one of the human casualties of trying to protect the gorillas.\u003cbr/\u003e\"What is important is that now we are trying to make the best use of the parks. How do we improve the tourism products? Be there animals, we would like to ensure that conservation is at its best but also ensure that they are developed as tourism products then we promote the country and get more visitors, then we get more money in flows, then we can now help the people around the parks.\" Says Salapio Rukundo, the Ugandan State minister for Tourism.\u003cbr/\u003eSince recognition of the need to conserve the remaining mountain gorillas in Uganda, much needed foreign revenue has been generated from the thousands of tourists that visit the national parks. Yet there is still no contribution towards resettling the Batwa people.\u003cbr/\u003e\"The central government has not helped these people really to settle down and we have a problem of these people they have now come to town, they are now begging, so we are asking the central government through the Uganda Wildlife Authority to find a new settlement for the Batwa people.\" Says William Harerimania, a speaker in Kisoro district, a small district on the outskirts of the national park. \u003cbr/\u003eThe Batwa people have lost hope of ever returning to their forest-based traditions. They fear approaching the forests due to previous encounters with park rangers in the area banning them from going into the forests.\u003cbr/\u003eAt a time when the state of the world's natural resources is high on the global political agenda, the Batwa people remain a human casualty of conservation efforts.\u003cbr/\u003e\"Our suffering continues because we keep on missing what we used to enjoy in the forests like wild honey and our medicinal plants. 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