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Briefing on major legal development on community forests in DRC
05 April 2016
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...
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RFUK launches Real-Time Forest Monitoring in Cameroon
31 March 2016
By working closely with different stakeholders we’re setting the stage to allow law enforcement officials to make timely and effective use of real-time data in order to stop illegal logging and protect vulnerable communities.
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The Paris climate agreement; what does it mean for rainforests?
12 March 2016
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.
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Amazonian Leader Receives Indigenous Award for Rights Advocacy
12 March 2016
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.
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PRESS RELEASE: Congo threatens to open world’s second largest rainforest to new industrial loggers
02 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.
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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).
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Real-time monitoring technology being tested in four countries
31 January 2016
The Rainforest Foundation UK is currently collaborating with local partners in three African countries – Cameroon, Democratic Republic of Congo and Ghana – as well as in the Peruvian Amazon to implement innovative real-time monitoring (RTM) projects
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From the Forest
27 January 2016
Aldo Soto is the Rainforest Foundation UK’s Programme Coordinator for Peru. He is currently in the Madre de Dios region of the Peruvian Amazon, where we are working with indigenous communities to protect their rainforest.
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More than 60 organisations call for a halt to drilling in Africa's oldest national park
25 January 2016
RFUK has joined over 60 organisations calling on UNESCO and the governments of Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) to reach an agreement to prevent any oil exploration, extraction or related activities in Virunga.
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RFUK partner awarded 'French Republic’s Human Rights Prize'
11 December 2015
Observatoire Congolais des Droits de l'Homme (OCDH), one of RFUK's local partners based in the Republic of Congo, has been awarded the 2015 French Republic's Human Rights Prize.
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