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Community-based monitors ready to monitor illegal logging activities and rights violations
Over 60 community representatives have recently been selected in Ghana, Cameroon and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) to act as independent monitors in the fight against illegal logging. Participating communities have expressed their desire to fight the scourge of illegal logging, which constantly affects their environment and their livelihoods. Each community has chosen representative … Read more
La cartographie communautaire fournit une base solide pour la gestion du territoire et le développement
Les communautés ont fini de cartographier le territoire de Lukoléla dans l’ouest de la RDC ; c’est la première fois que les droits fonciers coutumiers et l’utilisation des ressources ont été consignés sur l’entièreté d’une division administrative de cette envergure. Un total de 73 communautés avec une population de près de 120 000 habitants ont … Read more
Maï Ndombe est-elle prête pour la REDD ?
Tandis que le Comité des Participants du Fonds de partenariat pour le carbone forestier (FCPF) de la Banque mondiale approuve le projet Maï Ndombe, programme phare de la REDD en RDC, de nouvelles données sur les droits coutumiers dans la province jettent un doute quant à savoir qui bénéficiera du projet. Le programme de « … Read more
Training the trainers: RFUK works with FoE-Gh on Real-Time Monitoring technology
Our GIS Coordinator, Peter Foster, was in Ghana this month training our local partners at Friends of the Earth Ghana (FOE-Gh) on our real-time monitoring (RTM) technology, ForestLink. Our RTM project will build forest communities’ capacity to detect and report illegal forestry activities in real time with the use of an open-source mobile phone application and Geographic Information … Read more
Agreement signed with Democratic Republic of Congo Forest Administration to support community-based real-time monitoring
This week we celebrated a major development in our real-time monitoring (RTM) project in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). On Monday 20th June, the DRC’s Forest Administration (Equateur Province) signed a memorandum of understanding with our local partner, Groupe Action pour Sauver l’Homme et son Environnement (GASHE). This agreement coincides with the launch of our … Read more
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