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RFUK’s ground-breaking mapping project wins prestigious UN award
MappingForRights, RFUK’s community mapping and monitoring initiative, has won a prestigious United Nations climate change award, it was announced today (Thursday 29th September). The project, led by us and our local partners in Africa’s Congo Basin and the Peruvian Amazon regions, has been awarded a UNFCCC Momentum for Change Award for helping people and the planet by … Read more
ForestLink training wraps up in Abong-Mbang: Another rainforest community ready to protect their environment
Yesterday, the Rainforest Foundation UK team were in the forests near Abong-Mbang, Cameroon. We spoke to six members of one local community, including the chief, about the problems they’re facing in relation to the illegal exploitation of their forests. For them, the forest is their life, their livelihood. They simply can’t live without it. Many … Read more
ForestLink training continues: testing the technology in Abong-Mbang
On Monday, following the last day of ‘Training the Trainer’, the group travelled east to Abong-Mbang, where Forêts et Développement Rural (FODER) and two local NGOs have been training 12 community observers in our ForestLink technology. In the afternoon, the group split up into teams of two and three and ventured outdoors to test their new-found skills and technology. RFUK’s … Read more
Fighting illegal logging in Cameroon: Training the first ForestLink monitors
The Rainforest Foundation UK, in collaboration with its local partner in Cameroon, FODER, has successfully developed and tested its ForestLink system. This ground-breaking new system enables communities anywhere in the world to use satellite-linked smartphones to report illegal logging, environmental crimes and human rights abuses taking place in some of the most remote parts of the planet. … Read more
Conservation Watch: Who Pays the Price for Protected Areas?
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Community-based monitors ready to monitor illegal logging activities and rights violations
Over 60 community representatives have recently been selected in Ghana, Cameroon and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) to act as independent monitors in the fight against illegal logging. Participating communities have expressed their desire to fight the scourge of illegal logging, which constantly affects their environment and their livelihoods. Each community has chosen representative … Read more
La cartographie communautaire fournit une base solide pour la gestion du territoire et le développement
Les communautés ont fini de cartographier le territoire de Lukoléla dans l’ouest de la RDC ; c’est la première fois que les droits fonciers coutumiers et l’utilisation des ressources ont été consignés sur l’entièreté d’une division administrative de cette envergure. Un total de 73 communautés avec une population de près de 120 000 habitants ont … Read more
Maï Ndombe est-elle prête pour la REDD ?
Tandis que le Comité des Participants du Fonds de partenariat pour le carbone forestier (FCPF) de la Banque mondiale approuve le projet Maï Ndombe, programme phare de la REDD en RDC, de nouvelles données sur les droits coutumiers dans la province jettent un doute quant à savoir qui bénéficiera du projet. Le programme de « … Read more
Training the trainers: RFUK works with FoE-Gh on Real-Time Monitoring technology
Our GIS Coordinator, Peter Foster, was in Ghana this month training our local partners at Friends of the Earth Ghana (FOE-Gh) on our real-time monitoring (RTM) technology, ForestLink. Our RTM project will build forest communities’ capacity to detect and report illegal forestry activities in real time with the use of an open-source mobile phone application and Geographic Information … Read more
Agreement signed with Democratic Republic of Congo Forest Administration to support community-based real-time monitoring
This week we celebrated a major development in our real-time monitoring (RTM) project in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). On Monday 20th June, the DRC’s Forest Administration (Equateur Province) signed a memorandum of understanding with our local partner, Groupe Action pour Sauver l’Homme et son Environnement (GASHE). This agreement coincides with the launch of our … Read more