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Roundtable: Group helps set the course for DRC’s first community forests
This story is part of a series on RFUK’s work on community forests in the Congo Basin. For more information on our work on sustainable community forestry, click here. A second national roundtable in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) took place last month [1], where 90 stakeholders from across government, civil society and the donor … Read more
Official launch of community-based real-time forest monitoring project in Ghana
The Rainforest Foundation UK is excited to launch our first ever project in Ghana. On 27th and 29th of April 2016, our real-time forest monitoring (RTM) project was officially launched in the Nkawie and Goaso Forest Districts in Ghana, respectively. Representatives from government agencies, participating communities and civil society organisations gathered to learn more about … Read more
EVENT WEBINAR: Parks, People and Rights: Towards sustainable conservation in Africa
Join us on Wednesday 4th May at 18:00 via live, video webinar for a discussion about Africa’s protected areas in the Congo Basin. The Rainforest Foundation UK, in collaboration with SOAS, University of London will explore whether conservation in Africa’s rainforests is being effective for both the biodiversity they aim to protect and the people … Read more
Why Africa’s rainforests need sustainable conservation
In 2003, in front of a Congressional Committee, one of the United States’ most acclaimed conservationists pleaded for government support for protection of the wildlife of Africa’s rainforests. Talking of the success that the U.S. itself had had with preserving its ‘wild’ places in National Parks during the early 1900s, the speaker said that “My … Read more
Another reprieve for DRC’s forests!
by Simon Counsell, Executive Director, RFUK For the past 13 years, the government of DR Congo has had in place a law prohibiting the handing out of any more areas rainforest to large-scale commercial logging companies. Although the law was widely broken for the first few years, it has broadly been respected since 2007, when … Read more
From the Forest
Nora Serrat is the Rainforest Foundation UK’s Programme Coordinator for Cameroon. In March she met with local partner organisations in Yaoundé, to discuss plans the next phase of our mapping project. “We have been working with local forest communities in Cameroon over the past few years to map their rainforest lands through our Mapping for Rights programme. … Read more
RFUK et ses partenaires appellent à une conservation durable, par les communautés et pour les communautés
Malgré les centaines de millions de dollars en aide internationale investis, les aires protégées des forêts tropicales du bassin du Congo ne parviennent pas à protéger efficacement la biodiversité, et ont des impacts négatifs sérieux sur les communautés locales et populations autochtones. Telles sont les révélations du rapport de la Rainforest Foundation UK « Aires … Read more
RFUK calls for ‘Sustainable Conservation’ that serves both people and the planet
Protected areas in Africa’s great equatorial rainforests are falling well below expectations – both in terms of conserving wildlife and respecting local peoples’ rights – our new report, Protected Areas in the Congo Basin: Failing both People and Biodiversity, reveals. Despite the hundreds of millions of dollars in international support that has been spent on conservation efforts in … Read more
Briefing on major legal development on community forests in DRC
The government of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) recently adopted a new legal regulation that could allow millions of its forest-dependent people to protect and manage their forest lands – some 14 years after the concept was first introduced in the 2002 Forest Code. A new briefing by the Rainforest Foundation UK and Reseau Ressources … Read more
RFUK launches Real-Time Forest Monitoring in Cameroon
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