Peru
Community-based Real-time Monitoring in the Congo Basin and Amazon rainforests
In 2015, Rainforest Foundation UK, in collaboration with Forêts et Développement Rural (FODER), successfully developed and tested a ground-breaking new system, ForestLink, a tool to enable communities anywhere in the world to capture and transmit accurately geo-referenced reports of forest illegalities to authorities and other stakeholders in real-time – even in areas where there is … Read more
RFUK Annual Report 2015/16
This summary of our projects and campaigns in 2015/2016 offers a highlight of the Rainforest Foundation UK’s work with indigenous and forest communities around the world.
Amazonian Leader Receives Indigenous Award for Rights Advocacy
Amazonian leader receives indigenous award for rights advocacy Indigenous leader and Rainforest Foundation UK (RFUK) partner Ruth Buendía has been awarded the Bartolomé de las Casas prize for her commitment to standing up for the human and environmental rights of the Asháninka people in the Peruvian Amazon. The jury, acting for the Spanish Foreign Ministry’s … Read more
RFUK Annual Report 2014/15
This summary of our projects and campaigns in 2014/2015 offers a highlight of the Rainforest Foundation UK’s work with indigenous and forest communities around the world.
Real-time Community-based Forest Monitoring: Challenges and Opportunities
This briefing presents the main findings from a study and consultation covering nine countries, conducted for The Rainforest Foundation UK in April 2015. It follows the successful technical testing in Cameroon of RFUK’s ForestLink technology.
More awards for RFUK’s Peruvian partner Ruth Buendía
Ruth, who was also honoured with the prestigious Goldman Environmental Prize earlier this year, was awarded with a Diploma of Honour of the Republic at a special ceremony in September, chaired by the President of the Peruvian Congress, Ana María Solórzano, who recalled the moments in which the Asháninka suffered terrible violence at the hands … Read more
Kemito Ene at Festival
Kemito Ene present their produce at Cocoa and Chocolate festival Peru More than 30,000 people attended the annual chocolate festival, Salon del Cocoa y Chocolate in Peru where producers, including Kemito Ene – the Asháninka indigenous cocoa association from the Ene River – showcased their products to the market and appealed to prospective buyers. At … Read more
RFUK’s Peruvian Amazon partner wins prestigious environmental award
RFUK’s Peruvian Amazon partner wins prestigious environmental award Ruth Buendía, an Asháninka woman and President of the Rainforest Foundation UK’s (RFUK) indigenous partner organisation in Peru, was awarded the 2014 Goldman Environmental Prize for her work to unite the Asháninka people around a campaign against large scale dams that would have uprooted indigenous communities. Ruth has been … Read more
Press Release – Indigenous partner of RFUK in the Peruvian Amazon awarded prestigious international environmental prize
PHOTO: GOLDMAN ENVIRONMENTAL PRIZE INDIGENOUS PARTNER OF THE RAINFOREST FOUNDATION IN THE PERUVIAN AMAZON AWARDED PRESIGIOUS INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL PRIZE An indigenous leader and long-term partner of The Rainforest Foundation UK, (RFUK), in the Peruvian Amazon is to receive the Goldman Environmental Prize – a prestigious accolade awarded to six grassroots environmentalists each year – at … Read more
Newsletter – Asháninka cocoa growers report record production levels for 2013
Asháninka cocoa growers report record production levels for 2013 The Asháninka cocoa and coffee association Kemito Ene (cocoa of the Ene River) which represents 200 Asháninka farmers achieved a production of 18 tonnes of cocoa during 2013 – seven tonnes more than the previous year. The creation of Kemito Ene forms part of an ongoing … Read more