Cameroon
#IWD 2023: Rural women at the heart of participatory forest resource management
A guest Blog from our ForestLink partners: In Cameroon, the forestry sector plays an important role in the national economy, and provides a range of essential social and environmental functions for many local and indigenous communities. As a result, the sector also faces several tensions related to the proper management of its resources, including the socio-economic precariousness … Read more
Congo in the Crosshairs: Oil and Gas Expansion Threats to Climate, Forests, and Communities
A new comprehensive mapping and analysis by RFUK and Earth Insight shows that oil and gas expansion in the Congo Basin is a rapidly accelerating existential threat to the global climate, and to the world’s second largest rainforest – including the tens of millions of people who live there. There is still time for African … Read more
Ecodev
ECODEV work in the central region of Cameroon, mainly in the domains of natural resource governance and community empowerment and health. With the ForestLink system, ECODEV pushes logging companies to fulfil their social obligations towards local and indigenous communities, with whom they have close ties. News New alerts map shows vital role of forest communities … Read more
In Cameroon, the critically important Ebo forest is under threat from a road building project
A 200,000 hectare intact forest in Cameroon is under threat from a road-building project, which could lead to devastating impacts on critically endangered wildlife and more than 40 communities who call Ebo home. While the road-building project is purported to bring development opportunities to the villages affected, closer inspection of the plan shows that this … Read more
Unlocking the potential of forest guardians
How community forest monitors are exposing the scale of illegal logging in Cameroon and why they are the future of rainforest protection.
New alerts map shows vital role of forest communities in tackling illegal logging
RFUK and its local partners in Cameroon, the Republic of Congo, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Gabon, Ghana, Liberia, Ivory Coast and Peru have launched a webmap that includes thousands of illegal alerts sent by local community monitors using the ForestLink system. While satellite forest monitoring has transformed our ability to detect forest loss, ForestLink … Read more
Rural Women and Community Forest Monitoring: A Learning Experience
A guest Blog from our ForestLink partners: Woman community leader and young community observer in the middle of a data collection session using CAT S31 phones equipped with the “Collectaur” application © ECODEV 2020 Forests provide a wide range of products and materials essential to human life, and are integral to some 500 million people living in … Read more
Protected Areas and Indigenous Rights: A submission to the UN Special Rapporteur
In response to a call for comments to inform the Special Rapporteur’s report to the UN General Assembly at its 77th session, RFUK has put together a brief highlighting how, despite much lip service to the contrary, conventional conservation and climate change programmes continue to wreak havoc on indigenous peoples and other forest-dependent communities.
FODER
Long-time partners and co-creators of ForestLink – our community real time monitoring system – FODER (Forêts et Développement Rural) is based in Yaoundé, Cameroon, and is at the head of civil society efforts in the country to promote legality in the forest sector. FODER’s mission is to create an enabling environment for sustainable development, and … Read more
CED
CED (Centre pour l’Environnement et le Développement) are located in Yaoundé, Cameroon. They aim to contribute to the protection of rights, interests, culture and claims of local and indigenous forest communities of Central Africa, through the promotion of environmental justice and sustainable management of natural resources. RFUK’s partnership with CED began in 1999, and we … Read more