Deforestation impacts the Baka as the forest is their home. Anthropologist Shiho Hattori, recorded about 100 instruments that the Baka use daily for cooking, hunting and gathering, rituals etc. Out of these 100 utensils, Hattori reports that 40 (or about 2/5) of these utensils were made "partly or entirely out of natural resources" found in the forest. These deforestation projects can be extremely detrimental to the Baka as they will be destroying the environment on which they so heavily rely for absolute subsistence as well as for economic standing in face of the farmers.