Produced with Lindsay Sample and Shayla Harris.
The Baka indigenous people traditionally roamed the immense rain forests of the Congo Basin, living entirely off the land. Today, their isolated communities are largely surrounded by vast logging and mining concessions. In the midst of resource development throughout Cameroon, the Baka community of Nomedjoh fought for the right to control a small part of the forest around their village. It’s all they have left.
Part of my work for CUT – Global Costs of Illegal Logging an international reporting project with the UBC Global Reporting Program and the Centre for Digital Media in Vancouver, Canada–exposing the $30 billion trade in illegal wood. This story from Cameroon was picked up by Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting, and our story from the Russian far-east was picked up by the New York Times. Our work won a 2013 Canadian Online Publishing Award for video and multimedia reporting, in competition with the Toronto Star, Canadian Press, and La Presse and won a Regional Edward R. Murrow Award, the highest honor from the Radio, Television and Digital News Association
The Baka indigenous people traditionally roamed the immense rain forests of the Congo Basin, living entirely off the land. Today, their isolated communities are largely surrounded by vast logging and mining concessions. In the midst of resource development throughout Cameroon, the Baka community of Nomedjoh fought for the right to control a small part of the forest around their village. It’s all they have left.
Part of my work for CUT – Global Costs of Illegal Logging an international reporting project with the UBC Global Reporting Program and the Centre for Digital Media in Vancouver, Canada–exposing the $30 billion trade in illegal wood. This story from Cameroon was picked up by Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting, and our story from the Russian far-east was picked up by the New York Times. Our work won a 2013 Canadian Online Publishing Award for video and multimedia reporting, in competition with the Toronto Star, Canadian Press, and La Presse and won a Regional Edward R. Murrow Award, the highest honor from the Radio, Television and Digital News Association