Cameroon

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.

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