Editing Pygmy peoples (section)

===== Forced removal =====
{{Main|Fortress conservation}}
In a strategy described as [[fortress conservation]], the conservation efforts of national parks, often financed by international organizations such as the [[World Wildlife Fund]], can involve heavily armed park rangers removing native pygmies off the land.<ref>{{cite news|url= https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBDKiJrLits |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211212/TBDKiJrLits| archive-date=2021-12-12 |url-status=live|title=Congo: The tribe under threat|newspaper=Unreported World |access-date=1 September 2019|date=2 June 2019}}{{cbignore}}</ref> However, some have argued that the most efficient conservation methods involve giving land rights to the land's indigenous inhabitants.<ref>{{cite news|url= https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2016/jul/22/india-follow-china-saving-forest-people-land-rights|title=India should follow China to find a way out of the woods on saving forest people|newspaper=The Guardian |access-date=1 September 2019|date=22 July 2016}}</ref> This pattern of eviction has been seen in national parks in the [[Democratic Republic of the Congo]], such as [[Kahuzi-Biéga National Park]], where pygmy inhabitants often cut the trees down to sell charcoal.<ref name=Guardian0719/> In the [[Republic of the Congo]], this is seen in the Messok Dja protected area.<ref name=Guardian1120>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/nov/26/you-have-stolen-our-forest-rights-of-baka-people-in-the-congo-ignored|title='Large-scale human rights violations' taint Congo national park project|work=[[The Guardian]] |date=26 November 2020|access-date=27 May 2022}}</ref> In [[Cameroon]], this is seen in the [[Lobéké National Park]].<ref name=Buzzfeednews>{{Cite web|last1=Warren|first1=Tom|last2=Baker|first2=Katie|date=4 March 2019|title=WWF Funds Guards Who Have Tortured And Killed People|website=[[BuzzFeed News]] |url=https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/tomwarren/wwf-world-wide-fund-nature-parks-torture-death}}</ref> In [[Uganda]], some Batwa have been removed from land reclassified as national parks, such as the [[Mgahinga Gorilla National Park]], which is home to the endangered [[mountain gorilla]]. <ref>{{cite news|url= https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/ugandas-batwa-tribe-considered-conservation-refugees-see-little-government-support|title=Uganda’s Batwa tribe, considered conservation refugees, see little government support|newspaper=PBS|access-date=6 September 2024|date=21 October 2021}}</ref>