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Severe Human Rights Abuses Reported in and around Salonga National Park
An investigation by the Rainforest Foundation UK (RFUK) and Congolese NGO Actions pour la Promotion et la Protection des Peuples et Espèces Menacés (APEM), uncovered a worrying number of human rights abuses allegedly carried out by Salonga National Park’s anti-poaching agents, who receive support and funding from a range of international donors. Allegations include cases … Read more
Safer Ground: How Participatory Mapping can Mitigate the Social Impacts of Agribusiness in the Congo Basin
The expansion of commercial agriculture in the Congo Basin, especially for palm oil, poses great risks to forests and the people who depend on them for their livelihoods and culture. While efforts to make palm oil more ‘sustainable’ focus on avoiding deforestation and biodiversity loss, far less attention has been paid to land rights and … Read more
Palmed Off: An Investigation into Three Industrial Palm Oil and Rubber Projects in Cameroon and the Republic of Congo
Research carried out by the Rainforest Foundation UK and its partner organisations found that industrial palm oil and rubber plantations in Africa’s Congo Basin continue to disrespect human rights and destroy large swathes of rainforests.
Historic first in the Central African Republic as communities gain rights over their local forests
The first official ‘Community Forest’ has been allocated in the Central African Republic (CAR) in the Congo Basin, giving local people the rights to manage and protect their forest. In what represents an important achievement for forest peoples in CAR, a country where 80 per cent of the rainforest has been handed over to logging … Read more
La ce appelée à procéder à une évaluation urgente de ses financements pour les programmes de conservation en Afrique centrale
La Rainforest Foundation UK (RFUK) a appelée aujourd’hui la Commission européenne à conduire une enquête immédiate sur ses financements de projets de conservation dans les forêts du bassin du Congo, à la lumière de révélations concernant de nombreux abus de droits de l’homme par des « éco-gardes » financés par la Commission européenne. Cette semaine, le site … Read more
Widespread human rights abuses in Africa’s largest forest park
Rainforest communities living around Central Africa’s largest national park have been subjected to murder, gang-rape and torture at the hands of park rangers supported by funding from the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) and a range of international donors, an investigation by the Rainforest Foundation UK (RFUK) has found. RFUK’s investigators found evidence of … Read more
Our forest, our land: Unleashing the potential of community forests in DR Congo
A new short film on our community forests project in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The Rainforest Foundation UK and our local partners have been working with communities to help them obtain legal rights to manage their own forests.
Vidéo: Libérer le potentiel des forêts communautaires en RDC
Aujourd’hui, la Rainforest Foundation UK (RFUK) a sorti un court film à propos de son projet concernant les forêts communautaires en République démocratique du Congo (RDC). Le film met en scène plusieurs communautés au moment où elles obtiennent des droits juridiques sur leurs forêts et sont officiellement reconnues comme les gestionnaires de leur environnement local. … Read more
Participatory Mapping and Community Forests in the Democratic Republic of Congo
If well implemented, new community forest legislation in the DRC offers an unprecedented opportunity for communities to obtain legal rights to forests they have inhabited for generations and to improve their livelihoods. However, for community forests to deliver equitable and sustainable outcomes there is a need to ensure that they are developed by the communities themselves, … Read more
Securing forests from the bottom up: How participatory maps can support community forests in the Congo Basin
Members of Ilinga community, in DRC’s Equateur Province, celebrate as their community forest is officially granted in September 2018. Ilinga is one of several communities supported by the Rainforest Foundation UK and its local partners to map their forests and obtain a community forest. For years, there has been a growing consensus that securing land … Read more