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Conservation Watch: Who Pays the Price for Protected Areas?
08 September 2016
This week, a new website that exposes the dark side of conservation was launched by environmental writer and researcher, Chris Lang.
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Community-based monitors ready to monitor illegal logging activities and rights violations
31 August 2016
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
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Agreement signed with Democratic Republic of Congo Forest Administration to support community-based real-time monitoring
30 June 2016
This week we celebrated a major development in our real-time monitoring (RTM) project in the DRC.
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Roundtable: Group helps set the course for DRC’s first community forests
09 June 2016
A second national roundtable in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) took place last month [1], where 90 stakeholders from across government.
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Official launch of community-based real-time forest monitoring project in Ghana
30 April 2016
RFUK is excited to launch our first ever project in Ghana
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EVENT WEBINAR: Parks, People and Rights: Towards sustainable conservation in Africa
28 April 2016
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.
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From the Forest
26 April 2016
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.
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Why Africa’s rainforests need sustainable conservation
26 April 2016
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.
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Another reprieve for DRC’s forests!
26 April 2016
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.
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