Rainforest Foundation UK 20 Years and Counting
Latest News
RFUK Condemns Massacre of Indigenous People in Peru
RFUK has joined the list of many organisations condemning the massacre of indigenous people in Peru that has already resulted in at least 30 deaths, with a statement issued just this weekend calling on Peru and the international community at large to respect human rights.
The full statements are available to read and download (English & Spanish).
Papua New Guinea and Irregular Carbon Trading
Feature stories have just this weekend emerged from sources including Reuters and The Economist about irregular and somewhat scandalous carbon trading involving the government and rainforests of Papua New Guinea.
A damning feature article published online for The Economist can be read in full here:
http://www.economist.com/world/international/displaystory.cfm?story_id=13724646
RFUK Director Simon Counsell commented in a feature for Reuters published on Friday which can be read in full here:
BBC Thanks
Everyone at the Rainforest Foundation UK would like to send a very big thank you to the many people from all over the UK who supported our BBC Radio 4 Appeal, presented by the dashing and brilliant Stephen Fry earlier this year. From the four figure donations, the hundreds of £10 cheques (as suggested by Stephen), to the absolutely heartfelt anonymous one pound coin that was stuck with some sticky tape to a piece of recycled paper wrapped in card and posted, we managed to raise £13, 241.08 which is a fantastic amount for this our 20th year and is greatly appreciated by all.
RFUK THANKS YOU!
Do Trees Grow on Money?
Rainforests are back on the global agenda in a big way. Governments now recognise the importance of protecting tropical forests in order to avoid dangerous climate change, and there is now much debate. As governments try to thrash out the details of a new international agreement, expected to be signed at the end of 2009, they are discussing how best to include measures to save rainforests, and thereby address one of the major causes of climate change. Worldwide, forest destruction generates more greenhouse gas emissions each year than do all the trains, planes and cars on the planet. So if we are to tackle global warming, there is an urgent need to find ways to reduce the 20% of global greenhouse gas emissions caused by forest destruction each year, and to keep the remaining forests standing.
Blogs
Sam's been back to Central African Republic (CAR) one of the most inaccessible countries in the Congo Basin. Read about his experiences here.
