La cerimonia quotidiana del fuoco, che inaugura la giornata di caccia

(AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

In this March 20, 2010 photo, an Mbuti pygmy hunter arrives at the morning ceremonial fire which starts each hunting day, in the Okapi Wildlife Reserve outside the town of Epulu, Congo. The pygmies’ traditional practice of hunting bushmeat has devolved into an all-out commercial endeavor, staged not for subsistence, but to feed growing regional markets. The result: the forests, those that remain, are growing emptier by the day.