Rainforest Foundation UK News

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The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, a programme of the international Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), has recently been informed that our partner organization in the Republic of Congo, the Congolese Observatory of Human Rights (OCDH) has been victim to threats, slander, and denigration by the national police. Threatening to take action and even arrest members of OCDH, the commander of the national police released a letter to the paper La Semaine Africaine asserting that the organization is inciting civil disturbance and working under false pretences. This letter was written after OCDH had criticised the organisation of local and municipal elections earlier this year and circulated a press release demanding an that an independent electoral commission be established.

The Rainforest Foundation UK agrees with this concern and is deeply worried by the threats being issued against OCDH and its staff. We are calling on our supporters to write a letter to Congolese authorities and have prepared letter templates in English and French so that responding to this Call to Action is easy to do.

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We are looking for a dynamic individual with strong experience in participatory GIS and confidence in working in both French and English, who can take a lead in our growing mapping and land rights programme in the Congo Basin region.

Salary: £27,724-£29,246 | Contract type: Fixed term (2 years), subject to extension

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A new report published today by Gordon Brown's Special Representative on Deforestation and Clean Energy, Johan Eliasch, recommends that rich countries should pay developing countries not to cut down their rainforests, as a cheap alternative to reducing industrial emissions here at home.  The Rainforest Foundation UK (RFUK) welcomes the report's call for urgent measures to prevent destruction of the world's forests in order to counter climate change, but finds its conclusion that countries can somehow trade off pollution reduction for forest protection flawed.

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This August, the Rainforest Foundation UK helped bring more than 50 representatives of forest-dependent communities from over 30 countries to a United Nations climate change conference in Ghana, where governments were discussing how to save the world's rainforests, and by so doing, halt one of the major causes of global warming.

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Acclaimed comedian, presenter and XFM Breakfast Show host ALEX ZANE will compere the Rainforest Foundation UK's ‘Hot & Bothered' event with a host of hot comic stars as part of London's Big Joke Comedy Festival. The ‘Hot & Bothered' show on Tuesday October 14 as part of Leicester Square Theatre's month long festival features an impressive line up of UK comedic talent.

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We all know our planet is hotting up - you can show you're bothered about it in one of our cool t-shirts. RFUK has just launched a fantastic new t-shirt range.

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On the face of it, Gabon is a relatively wealthy country. Substantial oil reserves and a population of only 1.4 million have combined to give it one of the highest GDPs in sub-Saharan Africa at $5280 per capita. But you do not need to travel far out of the capital Libreville to realise that the statistics are misleading.

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The serious business of running the Rainforest 10K has just got even more serious, with the news that the race has received UK Athletics accreditation.

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Hot & Bothered about climate change? This summer the Rainforest Foundation UK (RFUK) is saying 'rainforests can help keep us all cool' with its new Hot & Bothered campaign.

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