Mbuti Tribe
Life in the Congo Rainforest
The Tribe walking through the vast rainforest plains
The Congo Rainforest is located here
New Life being celebrated
Tribal Land
For two thousand years the mbuti tribe have been using there land to hunt and gather food. The Mbuti tribe is lucky as 70% of the rainforest has never been cut down.
Mbuti Tribe Diet
The Mbuti men hunt monkeys, birds and any other type of meat they can find in the vast
rainforest. whilst the woman gather berries, herbs and fruits.
Trading
The Bantu villagers produce many items that the hunter gatherers trade some of their products for. They often obtain iron goods, pots, wooden goods, and basketry, in exchange for meat, animal hides, and other forest goods. Bush meat is a particularly frequently traded item. They will also trade to obtain agricultural products from the villagers through barter. The Mbuti women trade some of their herbs and fruits for clothing. Also the men
Dangers they are facing
Across the forests of central Africa, forest peoples have lived by hunting and gathering for millennia. But in the past few decades their homelands have been devastated by logging, war and encroachment from farmers.
With expansion of protected areas in response to these problems, their livelihoods have become increasingly impossible and their strong ties to their forests are under immense threat.