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Uganda: Pygmies and gorillas Two populations endangered by progress For a century the rainforests of Uganda have been chopped back for its timber, its minerals and its land.
As part of its new image building, Uganda's Pygmy tribes have been told to resettle because the forest and its wildlife have to be preserved.
The impact has been devastating the pygmies are fast becoming fringe dwellers.
Foreign Correspondent's Peter George visited this sanctuary and was able to get a very close look - within five metres, of these magnificent endangered beasts and their young. At dawn on the edge of the 'Impenetrable Forest' we found a Ugandan army work detail exercising their considerable harmonic talents.
Voices and traditional wind instruments combine to create a gentle, haunting refrain.
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