Population

=Population Expert - Josie= On this page there will be all the information about the people that live in the Rain forest and what their daily lives are like. Enjoy Reading about my discoveries.

Have you ever thought about the fact that there are people living in the Rain forests that we cut down. This means that it is not only plants and animals homes and lives that we are destroying but also those of humans. There are more than 50 million tribal people living in the Rain forest who survive off the plants they grow and animals they kill. They do the world no harm and do not deserve to be killed by the logging companies and machinery.

The Pygmies
The Pygmies are one of the main tribes found in the Rain forest. The pygmies are typically found in the rain forests of central africa. The pygmies are known to be very small.no-one knows quite why they are so small but people predict that the lack of calcium in the ranforest could lead to limited bone growth. Other people say it is because of a lack of food. In Congo, many pygmies have been captured and forced into savery for Bantu masters. They also sometime have territorial wars with other tribes. These consist of spears and hand made daggers.

The Huli
The Huli consist of about 65,000 people and are usually found in Papa New Guinea. they have been living there for more than 600 years.The Huli are much more traditional with their way of living. The men and woman live seperatley in large sleeping houses. The men of the Huli paint themselves exotic colours using clay and wear headdresses of feathers, leaves and vines. In the Huli tribe the men are aloud to have more than one wife but the woman can only have one husband at a time. The brides parents get a dowry which is often paid in pigs. After marrige the husband is responsible for bulding a house for hiswife and children. Then the wife must raise the children and tend to the garden and pigs. Boys leave their mothers at age ten to live with their father and learn to hunt, fish and other tribal skills.

**The Yanomami**
The Yanomami's average day is much different to our own. All of the villagers sleep and eat under the same roof called the Shabano. The name Yanomami means human being in their language. The Yamonmami tribes live off foraged fruit and hunted animals. The tribes of Yanomami consist of about 400 to 700 people. They lve very closely together so sometimes get angry and violent. Recently malaria and many other diseases have spread throughout the Yanomami people.

Witoto
The Witoto tribe live in the North-West Amazon. They are very skillfull hunters and hunt all that they eat. They are also very smart and create many medicines from the fruits and plants around them. When the Witoto warriors win a battle the tribe eats the meat of those thay have killed in celebration and use their bones to make furniture and childrens toys. This tribe uses big low sounding drums as their battle sound.

Conclusion
So, over all, the people of the Rain forest may not be as civilised as we are here but they have found great ways to live and i'm sure could teach everyone that live in towns something that is worth knowing. They are all intelligent people and do not deserve the fate we are giving them by destroying their homes. I have found out a lot through this research and I hope that this information will help you to learn about these fasinating people as well.