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RAINFOREST AND AFRICAN PYGMIES

Photo gallery with quotes from the book "The Forest Has You" and soundscapes

Deforestation in Central Africa
PHOTO: Deforestation in Central Africa: rainforest trees stacked around a sawmill (Gabon).
SOUNDSCAPE: a piece of xylophone polyrithmic music from Bamenda Grassfields


"We are close to the sawmill. Everywhere there are trunks of felled trees, marked with painted signs, and wood planks tied together. And the continuous, deafening roar of heavy machinery. Smoke and ash that coat everything, falling like rain from the sky. An immense fire blazes, where the waste wood from the mill ends up..."

Luis Devin, The Forest Has You
(La foresta ti ha - Castelvecchi/LIT Edizioni)