Expelled from their ancestral homes by the creation of the Mgahinga and Bwindi Impenetrable National Parks in southwestern Uganda, the Batwa pygmies have been reduced to a small community of around 1,000 individuals living in slums around Kisoro, a town where tourists stream each year to visit the parks and see its famed mountain gorillas. While conservation tourism booms, however, most Batwa live with as little as $25 a year, compared with a Ugandan average income of $420, and have a life expectancy of 28
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