Africa's Pygmies Face Logging Dilemma

AP Online | February 15, 2003| | Copyright

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Dateline: POKOLA, Republic of Congo For Pygmies logging the rain forests of central Africa, the chain saw's whine signals the promise of work _ and threatens a way of life.

As Republic of Congo's timber industry revs up after years of ruinous civil war, international logging firms are cutting swathes deep into the heart of central Africa's huge Congo basin.

The boom puts the Pygmies in a wrenching dilemma: Tree by tree, the jobs it gives them are destroying the forest home where they have dwelled for millennia.

"It's out of a need to survive that I work with the ...

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