Indigenous groups bear witness to climate change damage

The Baka people in Eastern Cameroon are using video cameras provided by UNDP and the Global Environment Facility to document how climate change is damaging the forests where they live. It’s just one way the UNDP is helping indigenous people, whose representatives are meeting at UN headquarters in New York May 18 to May 29 to discuss how to further implement a groundbreaking 2007 accord on indigenous peoples’ rights.

The Baka, who live in the forests of Central Africa, formed an organization called Okani (“rise up”) to help train other communities in filming and storytelling techniques to talk about their lives. Their first film shows how they are coping with the impacts of climate change, and the swift transformations of their habitat.

Watch the video at: http://content.undp.org/go/newsroom/2009/may/indigenous-groups-bear-witn...