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Victoria B

Kivu/Virunga - Pygmy Kleinood(what are their cultures) - 0 views

www.pygmee.nl/pygmy_kivu.html

5lwh pygmies indiginous people

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  • During the formation of National Parks such as Virunga Park and Kahuzi Biega (where the mountain gorillas live), the Pygmies were removed from their ancestor’s land by force. The protection of gorillas is important and something that has to be done
    • Victoria B
      Victoria B on 05 Oct 09
       
      great info must use!
  • Environmental organisations all over the world are starting to carefully take initiatives to integrate the Batwa Pygmies in nature conservation programmes. After all, the Pygmies have a thorough knowledge of their own natural habitat...... Kleinood is now assisting the Gorilla Park management with complementary knowledge of the Pygmy way of live in order to avoid project failures. The Batwa Pygmies are now trying to survive in the savannah areas, without benefice of the forest products: a much marginalized existence. The cruel civil war in Congo has extremely traumatised the Pygmies and a lot of them are displaced and have become refugees. We find seriously ill Pygmies on a daily basis. They cannot afford any medical care. Kleinood takes them to local dispensaries and pays for their treatment. Agriculture Together with Stichting Vluchteling, Kleinood is developing agricultural and urgent food projects to fight starvation. At the same time we are encouraging the Pygmies to create their own food production. The Pygmy refugee camps are situated on porous, infertile lava land areas. To solve this problem we supplied 50 tons (!) of fertile and humus soil to create fields (shambas).
  • Zoe P on 14 Sep 09
     
    Why they are not living in the rainforest
  • Antara V on 05 Oct 09
     
    Good website
  • Victoria B on 05 Oct 09
     
    need to use this for one of my questions to send to(what are their cultures?)
Victoria B

Pygmies - Pygmy Kleinood(how can we help them) - 0 views

www.pygmee.nl/pygmy_algemeen2.html

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    • Zoe P
      Zoe P on 14 Sep 09
       
      That is a good part about food
  • Infectious diseases unwittingly brought by the Europeans or transferred from the Bantus are taking their toll amongst the pygmies: in a typical community about 20% of the population is ill. They suffer particularly from malaria, eye diseases such as endemic river-blindness, intestinal worm diseases, framboesia, lung- and viral infections and from wounds which easily go septic in this tropical environment. Many children catch measles and suffer from polio and their mortality rate is very high. Adequate health care is expensive and local resources are extremely limited. The unique pygmy people need our support. With the help of the many friends of the pygmies around the globe we provide essential health-care and assistance in education and agriculture - but with more funds we could do so much more. A little money goes a very long way. For example, for only Euro 30, -- you can send a pygmy child to school for a whole year. We can pay the teacher and provide educational materials and medical care for the pupil. We need your support
  • Pygmies - page 2
  • Zoe P on 14 Sep 09
     
    a bit about THe Pymies
Zoe P

Pygmies - Pygmy Kleinood - 0 views

www.pygmee.nl/pygmy_algemeen.html

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    • Zoe P
      Zoe P on 07 Sep 09
       
      This site is very informative
  • The pygmies are among the oldest populations of Africa.
  • They hunt with flash and arrow
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  • The Pygmy families live in dome-shaped huts made from leaves. Their mattresses are also made from leaves. In these huts they sleep very close to one another around a fire that protects them from the humid cold atmosphere (Ituriforest altitude is ca 1500 m). The smoke keeps out the mosquitoes.
  • Pharaohs where they were called "Dancers of God'.
Annabel W

The People of the Rainforest - 0 views

www.srl.caltech.edu/...people.html

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    • Luke Whitehouse
      Luke Whitehouse on 07 Sep 09
       
      Pygmies are not large
    • Victoria B
      Victoria B on 07 Sep 09
       
      Interesting
    • Zoe P
      Zoe P on 07 Sep 09
       
      oh ?
  • The men decorate their bodies with colored clay and wear elaborate headdresses for ceremonies. 
    • Aidan C
      Aidan C on 10 Sep 09
       
      why do the men and women live sepretly?
    • Annabel W
      Annabel W on 10 Sep 09
       
      it is their tradition
  • Mbuti and Baka Pygmies live in the rainforests of Central Africa. 
    • Zoe P
      Zoe P on 07 Sep 09
       
      You can find the Pygmies live in the rainforets of central africa
    • Victoria B
      Victoria B on 07 Sep 09
       
      This is good infomation I may use it in my report and take note
    • Annabel W
      Annabel W on 10 Sep 09
       
      interesting......very interesting
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    • Zoe P
      Zoe P on 07 Sep 09
       
      The Huli seems A very good subject for rain forest people
    • Victoria B
      Victoria B on 07 Sep 09
       
      The Yanomami is a very interesting group
    • Zoe P
      Zoe P on 09 Sep 09
       
      It Is true
    • Zoe P
      Zoe P on 16 Sep 09
       
      I belive that the Yanomami is protected by the government because it is one of the oldest tribes in the world . The governmant is protecting for the new generation to studies. But I think that if the government protects them they will keep getting morevIn contact with the government the will be more in conntact with our world and will soon forget there ways of living but agian they need help other wise they might die and we wont have proof of there exsistant for pthers to learn from.
  • The Huli
  • The Yanomami
  • Zoe P on 07 Sep 09
     
    The Huli
Jean Luc L

People of the Amazon Rainforest - 0 views

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5RTo biomes rainforest people

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    • Zoe P
      Zoe P on 16 Sep 09
       
      There are many people in the rainforest the main tribes are the Huli the Pygmies Yanomami who are protected by the government. They often have diffrent belifes as it is very rare to find same tribe in another place. Many tribes have not yet been out of the depths of our world and are totaly disconeccted but they now that there are others out there. But because of deforesttation the tribes will soon be in contact with our world and forget there ways of living.
  • Of these varying Amer-Indian people living in the Amazon Rainforest, one of the largest groups is the Yanomami.  “Yano” translates to “communal house”.  Their village life is centered around the “yano”, or communal house.  The “yano” is a large, circular shelter constructed of vine and leaf thatch, which has a living space in the middle.   Village activity revolves around the main house which has multiple living quarters built in the center.  
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  • Emily S on 10 Sep 09
     
    At one time almost 10 million native Indians occupied the lands of the South America Rainforest. At the time when Western and European explorers and conquistadors invaded the land in search of untold riches, there were less than one million indigenous people, today there are less than 250,000 indigenous natives. As the Rainforest dies, so does the heritage of the land and sadly so do the people of the Rainforest. The remarkable human diversity here has over 215 ethnic groups speaking 170 different languages in an area composing 190 million acres of land - roughly twice the size of California. 188 million acres of this land remains inside the Brazilian Amazon, in the states of Acre, Amapa, Amazonas, Maranhao, Mato Grosso, Para, Rondonia, Roraima, and Tocantins. Of these varying Amer-Indian people living in the Amazon Rainforest, one of the largest groups is the Yanomami. "Yano" translates to "communal house". Their village life is centered around the "yano", or communal house. The "yano" is a large, circular shelter constructed of vine and leaf thatch, which has a living space in the middle. Village activity revolves around the main house which has multiple living quarters built in the center. Pygmy Tribes, include Baka and Mbuti Pygmies, like the Bushmen of the Kalahari in Africa, are some of the last remaining "hunter-gatherers". Totally self-sufficient, these many Amazonian Indian Tribes have called the Amazon Rainforest home for centuries now. The Huli Indian Tribe are one of many who make their home in the remote highland forests of Papua New Guinea. In their culture, men and women live in large groups in separate quarters. The people of the Amazon are highly intelligent, even though many have never seen any modern technology. They live by the earth and the sea and have developed an extreme affinity with nature. Their ritual ceremonies and beliefs in their lives are often governed by nature. They look between the l
  • Mahi N on 14 Sep 09
     
    A bit long but interesting
  • Victoria B on 14 Sep 09
     
    descriyion
  • Zoe P on 16 Sep 09
     
    descriyion
Victoria B

Baka Pygmies(Good for my questions) - 0 views

www.pygmies.info

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  • Victoria B on 16 Sep 09
     
    very in depth on the rainforest
Mahi N

Tribes - Survival International - 0 views

www.survival-international.org/tribes

5LWh rainforest people

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  • BushmenThe Bushmen are the indigenous people of southern Africa. They have experienced a genocide which has been almost completely ignored; having once occupied the whole of southern Africa, just 100,000 remain today. Most have lost their land to white or Bantu colonists. Dongria KondhVedanta, a British mining company, is intent on open-cast mining for aluminium ore on Niyamgiri mountain, which the Dongria Kondh worship as a living god. Mining the mountain will destroy the forests on which they depend. GuaraniFor the Guarani, land is the origin of all life. But violent invasions by ranchers have devastated their territory and nearly all of their land has been stolen. Guarani children starve and their leaders have been assassinated.
  • BushmenThe Bushmen are the indigenous people of southern Africa. They have experienced a genocide which has been almost completely ignored; having once occupied the whole of southern Africa, just 100,000 remain today. Most have lost their land to white or Bantu colonists. Dongria KondhVedanta, a British mining company, is intent on open-cast mining for aluminium ore on Niyamgiri mountain, which the Dongria Kondh worship as a living god. Mining the mountain will destroy the forests on which they depend. GuaraniFor the Guarani, land is the origin of all life. But violent invasions by ranchers have devastated their territory and nearly all of their land has been stolen. Guarani children starve and their leaders have been assassinated.
  • BushmenThe Bushmen are the indigenous people of southern Africa. They have experienced a genocide which has been almost completely ignored; having once occupied the whole of southern Africa, just 100,000 remain today. Most have lost their land to white or Bantu colonists. Dongria KondhVedanta, a British mining company, is intent on open-cast mining for aluminium ore on Niyamgiri mountain, which the Dongria Kondh worship as a living god. Mining the mountain will destroy the forests on which they depend. GuaraniFor the Guarani, land is the origin of all life. But violent invasions by ranchers have devastated their territory and nearly all of their land has been stolen. Guarani children starve and their leaders have been assassinated.   Explore the world's tribes The Americas Akuntsu BrazilArhuaco ColombiaAwá BrazilAyoreo ParaguayBrazilian Indians BrazilEnawene Nawe BrazilEnxet ParaguayGuarani BrazilIndians of Raposa–Serra do Sol BrazilInnu CanadaNukak ColombiaUncontacted Indians PeruWichí ArgentinaYanomami Brazil Africa Bushmen BotswanaMaasai KenyaMursi, Bodi & Konso EthiopiaNuba SudanOgiek KenyaPygmies Central Africa Asia & Australasia Aborigines AustraliaBatak PhilippinesDongria Kondh IndiaJarawa IndiaJummas BangladeshKhanty RussiaPalawan PhilippinesPapuan Tribes IndonesiaPenan MalaysiaSiberian Tribes RussiaWanniyala-Aetto Sri Lanka  
  • Mahi N on 16 Sep 09
     
    A good website but try not to get drawn into all the flashy videos and stuff.
Alexandra R

African Tribes - Pygmies People - 0 views

www.africaguide.com/...pygmies.htm

5LWh rainforest people

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  • by governments, which do not see these forest-dwellers as equal citizens.
    • Zoe P
      Zoe P on 07 Sep 09
       
      That is very interesting I wonder why they dont see them as equal citizens ???????
Katie Day

Baka Pygmies - Rite of initiation to the Spirit of the Forest - 0 views

www.pygmies.info/...initiation.html

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  •  INITIATION
    • Zoe P
      Zoe P on 24 Sep 09
       
      this means they have to do certain things in order to enter the tribe this is good for whoever is doing the main questions like me about the how thier culters work
  • The initiation lasts several days in a hidden place in the depths of the forest. After the boys to be initiated have been undressed, washed, shaved and palm oil is rubbed on their body, they are led into a special hut.
  • Then, they undergo multiple rituals, some public (such as dances and processions), some secret, for about a week during which they eat, drink and sleep very little.
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  • the boys come face to face with the Spirit of the Forest who first kills them as part of the initiation rite, then makes them come to life again as adults and gives them some special powers.
  • Zoe P on 24 Sep 09
     
    cultures
  • Katie Day on 25 Sep 09
     
    cultures
Kengo M

Desert Animals - 0 views

www.blueplanetbiomes.org/desert_animal_page.htm

desert animals 5lwh

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  • Animals Armadillo Lizard Banded Gila Monster Bobcat Cactus Wren Coyote Desert Bighorn Sheep Desert Kangaroo Rat Desert Tortoise Javelina Cactus Ferruginoug Pygmy Owl Sonoran Desert Toad Sonoran Pronghorn Antelope Thorny Devil Climate Return to Desert
    • Kengo M
      Kengo M on 14 Sep 09
       
      Animals Desert
  • Kengo M on 14 Sep 09
     
    about desert animals
Annabelle H

Rainforest Animals - 0 views

www.blueplanetbiomes.org/rnfrst_animal_page.htm

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  • The Sumatran rhinoceros is a small, hairy rhinoceros which survives in limited numbers in pockets of Indonesian and Malaysian rain forests. In the early 1900s it ranged over most of Southeast Asia from the Himalayas in Bhutan, eastern India through Malaysia, Sumatra and Borneo. Now they are only found in little forest pockets on the Indonesian island of Sumatra and the Malay peninsula.
    • Katherine G
      Katherine G on 10 Sep 09
       
      For Research, Remeber to do on weekends . . .
  • The smallest living rhinoceros, the Sumatran rhinoceros has a gray-brown leathery hide. Its deep folds around the neck, behind the front legs, and before the hind legs give the rhinoceros an armor-plated appearance. It has a short, stocky body and stumpy legs which are covered with coarse reddish-brown hair. Its body length is from 8 to 8.5 feet and stands 4.5 feet at the shoulders. A mature rhino weighs from 2200 to 4400 pounds.
  • The Sumatran rhinoceros is the only Asian rhinoceros with two horns. Both sexes of rhinos have horns, the front horn being larger, averaging 15 to 20 inches. The male's horns are usually bigger than the female's, whose second, smaller horn is often absent. The upper lip curves down and can move around to grasp objects.
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  • Information about the Sumatran rhino has been difficult to come by because it survives in small, scattered populations in the thick undergrowth of their rainforest habitat. It is known that the females have territories of about 1.2 to 2.2 miles in diameter that partially overlap with other females. The males seem to be nomadic. The estimated density per animal is approximately one animal per 15 sq. miles in high density areas, and one animal per 31 to 46 sq. miles in low density areas.
  • They live in a variety of habitats, but prefer higher elevations in the mountain moss forests and tropical rain forests with few human developments. The rhinos are most often found near water, and spend much of the day in mud wallows, which they dig out themselves and whose perimeters are kept clean. The wallows help the rhino avoid biting insects and protects them from the heat .
  • Sumatran rhinos are solitary animals who only come together to breed. Breeding of captive Sumatran rhinos has shown that the female will not come into estrus until she senses the nearness of a male. This reduces energy spent on cycling when the rhinos don't come into contact with each other on a regular basis. Gestation is 475 days with one calf per birth. The calf is covered with a dense coat of reddish hair. Calves are weaned at 18 month, but stay close to their mother for 2 to 3 years. Females reach sexual maturity at 4 years, and males take 7 years to reach sexual maturity. Birth intervals between calves is 3 to 4 years. The life span of captive rhinos is around 35 years.
  • Rhinos feed just before dawn and after dusk and move about during the night. The normal diet of the Sumatran rhino includes wild durian mangoes, figs, bamboo and plants species characteristic of disturbed forests. It will knock down saplings to get at the tender leaves. They are very fond of salt licks and each territory will include one.
  • The Sumatran rhinoceros is the smallest and rarest rhinoceros species. There are thought to be only 300 animals still in existence and the IUCN has put it on its critically endangered list in 1996. These survive in very small and scattered populations, their habitat fragmented into smaller and smaller pieces by encroaching human populations. The number of Sumatran rhinos has declined 50% due to poaching in the last 10 years. There are no signs that the situation is stabilizing. Efforts have been made by IUCN to set up a 3 year program for the protection to the Sumatran rhino in Indonesia and Malaysia in the wild. They are seeking to extend the program, whose funding ended in 1998. Captive breeding programs have also been set up, but have not been very successful. Since 1984 40 rhinos have been captured to participate in breeding programs, but 19 of these have died. Artificial insemination efforts have also not been very successful. These failures were the result of lack of knowledge of the diet and reproduction of the Sumatran rhinoceros. Experience so far has shown that the rhinos need larger enclosures with more natural conditions. Time is running out as efforts to save the Sumatran rhinoceros from extinction continue.
  • The Toco Toucan is the largest of the toucans. It can get to about twenty-four to twenty six inches in length. Its bill is brightly colored orange and black and can get to about eight inches in length. The Toco Toucan weighs about ten to seventeen ounces. The Toucan's massive bill is not as heavy as it looks; it has a hard outside and a hollow inside. A bright blue patch of blue skin surrounds the eye.
  • ifty degrees North to fifteen degrees South, and thirty-five degrees to sixty-five degrees in
  • The Wagler's pit viper lives in trees of the Southeast Asian rainforest. The climate in the rainforest is wet and humid and it rains a lot. During the wet season, or monsoon season, it
  • Chimpanzees are about 3 to 5 feet tall and weigh from 99 to 176 pounds. They have black hair. Adults are very often bald, usually a triangle on the forehead of the male, and more complete baldness in females. Their faces are hairless. Infants have pink faces which turn darker with age. Although chimpanzees have no tail, infants have a white tail tuft.
  • Africa Forest Elephant Bengal Tiger Chimpanzee Common Palm Civet or Musang Dawn Bat Golden Lion Tamarin Harpy Eagle Jambu Fruit Dove King Cobra Kinkajou Linn's Sloth Orangutan Proboscis Monkey Red-shanked Douc Langur Silvery Gibbon Slender Loris Sumatran Rhinoceros Toco Toucan Vampire Bat Wagler's Pit Viper
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      Gurupranav G on 22 Sep 09
       
      This is just beautiful. If you want to know about some of the animals that live in tropical rainforests, well just click on one of the names and you'll find out about it. one example is to your right . This is a piece of information on the African Forest Elephant, which can also be called the Pygmy elephant, as it says here. Maybe you would want to find out about that animal.
  • Katherine G on 10 Sep 09
     
    Rino Info
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  • Katherine G on 10 Sep 09
     
    Elephant Info
  • Katherine G on 10 Sep 09
     
    very good animal info
  • Annabelle H on 10 Sep 09
     
    chimpanzees
Victoria B

rainforest people - 0 views

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5hwh Pygmies

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  • Victoria B on 14 Sep 09
     
    Great website for rainforest people
Thomas C

Fighting to save Borneo's vital last rain forests - Health & Science - International He... - 0 views

www.nytimes.com/...18iht-rbimplode.2852374.html

T.C. 5LWh

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  • A government agreement on the oil palm plan was signed during a visit to Beijing by President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono of Indonesia in July of last year. But an Indonesian Forestry Ministry spokesman said last month that the government now proposed to steer Chinese oil palm investment toward 400,000 hectares of agricultural land instead.The government had never intended to destroy more rain forest, the spokesman said in a telephone interview from Jakarta, adding that no official agreement had yet been signed with Chinese business interests."The Indonesian Government seems to be supportive of the Heart of Borneo project and generally more concerned about facing up to its environmental challenges," said Douglas Sheil, a scientist at the Center for International Forestry Research in Bogor, Indonesia
    • Thomas C
      Thomas C on 16 Sep 09
       
      I SAY TO KEEP HOLDING ON AND SAVE THE RAINFORESTS OF BORNEO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
  • WWF-Malaysia has said that the forests are one of two places in the world where endangered orangutans, Bornean pygmy elephants and the critically endangered Sumatran rhinoceros still coexist. In June, a motion- triggered camera there photographed for the first time a wild rhino, believed to be one of only 13 whose existence was confirmed by a field survey last year.
    • Thomas C
      Thomas C on 16 Sep 09
       
      All the more reason to stop logging in Borneo!!!!!!!!
  • Thomas C on 16 Sep 09
     
    YAHOO! KEEP PROTECTING THE RAINFORESTS OF BORNEO!!!!!!
Thomas C

Primates - 0 views

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  • Primates are a group of mammals that include prosimians, monkeys, and apes. Humans are primates, too. We are a type of ape. Most primates have hands and feet that can grasp, and many have tails. There are about 230 primate species. Most primates are found in tropical environments. The only great exception to this is humans. We live all over the planet. Almost all primates eat both plants and animals. Most primates are threatened or endangered.
    • Thomas C
      Thomas C on 14 Sep 09
       
      description on animals
  • The Big ThreePrimates belong to one of three general groups: prosimians, monkeys, and apes. ©G.Ellis/GLOBIO.org Prosimians include lemurs, tarsiers and lorises. ©G.Ellis/GLOBIO.org Monkeys include new world and old world monkeys as well as macaques and baboons. ©G.Ellis/GLOBIO.org Apes include chimpanzees, gorillas, orangutans, and humans. Prime Locations for P
    • Thomas C
      Thomas C on 14 Sep 09
       
      never knew that lorises belonged to the monkey family.
  • What Sets Primates Apart Humans are the only primates that are strictly bipedal, meaning they walk upright on two feet. Humans live all over the planet in almost every environment. ©G.Ellis/GLOBIO.org As primates evolved over the past 50-60 million years, two important things happened. 1) Their faces flattened and the eyes moved to the front of the head, giving them binocular vision. 2) They developed hands with separate fingers and opposable thumbs. This allowed them to grasp and hold on to branches and other objects. These two important developments make primates very different from all
    • Thomas C
      Thomas C on 14 Sep 09
       
      Humans are primates?
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  • other mammals.
    • Thomas C
      Thomas C on 14 Sep 09
       
      humans are primates?
  • Adult primates come in many different sizes. The pygmy marmoset is the smallest and weighs only 70 g. The largest primate is the gorilla. It may weigh as much as 181 kg!  Primate species live for different lengths of time, depending on their size. The mouse lemur is very small and lives about eight years. Chimpanzees, which are quite large, can live as long as some humans.
  • Thomas C on 14 Sep 09
     
    Hi guys
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