Press Releases

First international counter-conference on conservation will denounce “world’s biggest land grab”

27 August 2021

The world’s first major international congress on decolonizing conservation, “Our Land, Our Nature”, will take place in Marseille, France, on September 2, 2021, immediately before the IUCN World Conservation Congress in the same city. At this congress indigenous representatives and speakers from around 18 countries will share evidence and first-hand testimonies of conservation atrocities and … Read more

UN plan to protect 30 percent of the planet by 2030 could displace hundreds of millions, NGOs and experts warn

2 September 2020

London, 02 Sept 2020 One hundred twenty eight environmental and human rights NGOs and experts today warn that a United Nations drive to increase global protected areas such as national parks could lead to severe human rights violations and cause irreversible social harm for some of the world’s poorest people. [1] In May 2021, the … Read more

UN 2030 conservation plan could dispossess 300 million people

20 July 2020

A new UN drive to increase global protected areas could lead to severe human rights violations and cause irreversible social harm if not backed by much stronger guarantees of the rights of indigenous people and other local communities, the Rainforest Foundation UK (RFUK) warns today. In October, the Conference of Parties to the Convention on … Read more

Government of Norway gives green light to continuing massive illegalities in Congo’s rainforests

21 June 2017

The government of Norway is today accused by RFUK of encouraging impunity for serious wrong-doing, by failing to insist that illegal logging concessions in the Democratic Republic of Congo are immediately terminated. Responding to recent requests from Rainforest Foundation UK that it should refuse funding to a huge expansion of logging in the DRC, and … Read more

PRESS RELEASE: Congo threatens to open world’s second largest rainforest to new industrial loggers

2 March 2016

A tropical rainforest more than twice the size of France is at risk of being cut down, following news from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) that the government is considering re-opening its forest to new logging companies. This comes at a time when the governments of Norway, France, Germany, the UK, and the European … Read more

PRESS RELEASE: Tens of millions of hectares of Africa’s rainforests could benefit from local community control

17 February 2016

A new landmark regulation that could allow millions of forest-dependent people to protect and manage their local rainforest, and potentially help lift them out of poverty, has been adopted by the government of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Until now, forest communities in DRC have had no legal right to claim forest lands they … Read more

Press release: A radical change of approach is needed in protected areas – Congo Basin, experts at the World Parks Congress say

19 November 2014

Speaking at an event at the World Parks Congress this afternoon, African and international experts said that protected areas in the Congo Basin are falling below expectations both in terms of conserving biodiversity and helping local people [1]. The event, organised by Rainforest Foundation UK, highlighted that in spite of the hundreds of millions of … Read more

RFUK Press Conference

11 June 2014

Amazonian Chiefs appear at London Press Conference to highlight accelerating threats to their rights and the rainforest Renowned Amazonian tribal Chief Raoni Meturktire and his nephew Chief Megaron Txucarramãe appeared at a press conference hosted by the Rainforest Foundation UK, RFUK, on Monday at the Frontline Club, London with Bianca Jagger being a keynote speaker. … Read more

Press Release – Indigenous partner of RFUK in the Peruvian Amazon awarded prestigious international environmental prize

28 April 2014

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