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Photo | Amazon Rainforest (Credit: Charlie Hamilton James) By Simon Counsell, RFUK’s Executive Director Britain’s leaders have much to wrestle with in the coming months and years in what they hope will be the formation of a newly ‘independent’ and self-determining nation. If this signals a period of focus on domestic priorities, and more pressure … Read more

Those who have done it say it’s the best day of their lives. Doing it requires steely will, determination, and strength. Thousands come out to line the streets in support and runners take in most of London’s famed landmarks. We are, of course, talking about the Virgin Money London Marathon. Meet our wonderful runners for … Read more

Photo: The stakeholder training workshop gave everyone the chance to see first-hand how the ForestLink technology works. Credit: GASHE The last two months have been a busy time for our real-time forest monitoring (RTM) project in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Our local partners GASHE have been hard at work to scale up our … Read more

We are pleased to present our Annual Review, which gives an overview of our programmes, achievements, and how your donations were spent during 2015 – 2016. For almost three decades, The Rainforest Foundation UK, (RFUK), has been at the forefront of efforts to support indigenous and local communities to protect millions of hectares of rainforest. Our work … Read more

Over the coming year we will be interviewing a range of people that make help RFUK’s projects happen. From in-country partner staff, community members and beyond, people are central to our work and we hope you find our series of profiles over the course of 2017 insightful. First up is Robert Sangster-Poole, Communications Coordinator at RFUK, … Read more

Peter is the GIS (Geographic Information Systems) Coordinator at the Rainforest Foundation UK. He develops RFUK’s mapping and monitoring systems, which enable forest communities to defend their forest home. Peter Foster reports on a recent trip to Ghana where he introduced RFUK’s new ForestLink programme. “Late last year, I travelled to Accra, Ghana, to discuss … Read more

Photo | UN / Jean-Marc Ferré “Protected areas have the potential of safeguarding the biodiversity for the benefit of all humanity; however, these have also been associated with human rights violations against indigenous peoples in many parts of the world.” So begins the July 29th report by the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous … Read more