This may be old news to some but i just randomly discovered this on you tube and it was one of those "wtf is going?!" on moments to me.

You Tube Video

The Ugandan government is actually exiling the indigenous Batawa Pygmies from the rain forests they have lived in for THOUSANDS of years to declare the rain forest a sanctuary for the gorrilas that live in the forest.

So there is an organization relocating them to Austrailia. There is something that just doesn't make sense and is so primitive about this solution that the Ugandan government has declared. I thought human beings evolved passed the whole relocating indigenous tribes and stealing their land for profit.

Anyway I have been composing a list of charities I want to donate my profits from my designs to and this has definitely made itself an issue.

if you would like some resources that can help protect batwa pygmies and other indigenous tribes people visit these organizations web sites.

http://www.pygmies.net/ - Dr. Scott and Carol Kellermann Official Site for the Pygmy rehabilitation project in australia

http://www.forestpeoples.org/ - The Forest Peoples Programme, Supporting Indigenous forest peoples rights.

http://www.caurwa.org/ The Caurwa organization works to insure the financial integrity of the batwa people.