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Nora Serrat is the Rainforest Foundation UK’s Programme Coordinator for Cameroon. In March she met with local partner organisations in Yaoundé, to discuss plans the next phase of our mapping project. “We have been working with local forest communities in Cameroon over the past few years to map their rainforest lands through our Mapping for Rights programme. … Read more
Protected Areas in the Congo Basin: Failing Both People and Biodiversity?
Protected areas in Africa’s great equatorial rainforests are falling well below expectations both in terms of conserving wildlife and respecting local peoples’ rights. Watch this short film about forest communities affected by the Tumba Lediima Reserve in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).
Protected Areas in the Congo Basin: Failing Both People and Biodiversity?
Based on a sample of 34 protected areas across Cameroon, the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Gabon and the Republic of Congo, including four detailed case studies, this study reveals that biodiversity in the region continues to decline, that there is little evidence that the ‘guns and guards’ approach to protected areas … Read more
RFUK calls for ‘Sustainable Conservation’ that serves both people and the planet
Protected areas in Africa’s great equatorial rainforests are falling well below expectations – both in terms of conserving wildlife and respecting local peoples’ rights – our new report, Protected Areas in the Congo Basin: Failing both People and Biodiversity, reveals. Despite the hundreds of millions of dollars in international support that has been spent on conservation efforts in … Read more
Briefing on major legal development on community forests in DRC
The government of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) recently adopted a new legal regulation that could allow millions of its forest-dependent people to protect and manage their forest lands – some 14 years after the concept was first introduced in the 2002 Forest Code. A new briefing by the Rainforest Foundation UK and Reseau Ressources … Read more
RFUK launches Real-Time Forest Monitoring in Cameroon
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The Paris climate agreement; what does it mean for rainforests?
by Simon Counsell, Executive Director, RFUK The global agreement signed in Paris in December has been heralded as a historic moment in efforts to tackle climate change. The destruction and burning of rainforests contributes perhaps 10% of all man-made greenhouse additions to the atmosphere. There has been much talk of how exactly to stop this, and … Read more
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
PRESS RELEASE: Congo threatens to open world’s second largest rainforest to new industrial loggers
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
Community Forests in DRC: Towards Equitable and Sustainable Forest Management
Building on RFUK’s 2014 briefing on DRC’s decree 14/018 fixing the modalities for the attribution of local ‘community forest concessions’, this document considers some of the key features, challenges and opportunities emerging from this legislation.