Death Throes of a Great Rainforest - The last time I saw Agta Negrito headman, Pok, of Sawa, Sierra Madre Mountain rainforest, Philippines. Pok was the headman of Sawa, the settlement of one of the last truly semi-nomadic band of Negritos. Pok asked for two aspirin and walked alone back into the fast shrinking forest from the ragged fringe where outside migrants have begun to live.

Copyright James Whitlow Delano