Brian's Story
I grew up amongst my people in a traditional village in Papua New Guinea as one of the Gingilang clan, a part of the Barong tribe. Every day in the village men would go hunting in the forest and fishing in the river. The women would harvest the vegetables from the food gardens and collect fruit and nuts from the forest.
I remember when I was young, we kids would have so much fun setting traps for birds and bandicoots as
we learned how to hunt. We would go into a forest so thick that you could only see thin rays of sun coming
through the canopy of branches and leaves. When I looked up I could not see the sky. The bush was full of
animals and birds.
But all this is changing.
