News
Search News (162)
News
STING AND CELEBRITY FRIENDS LEND A HAND IN CHARITY CHRISTMAS AUCTION
02 October 2015
‘The 12 Days of Christmas’ auction features celebrity-crafted Christmas cards, limited-edition artworks and luxury experiences - proceeds going to projects which help to protect the future of the rainforests and rights of indigenous and forest people.
Find out more
News
ForestLink - putting the power to save forests in local peoples’ hands
29 June 2015
An audience at The Royal Institution (RI) in London on Wednesday heard how millions of ‘community forest monitors’ could be mobilised by a new system devised by RFUK that enables them to report illegal logging in real-time.
Find out more
News
EVENT: Community Based Real-Time Monitoring: A New Breakthrough in Forest Governance?
12 June 2015
The Rainforest Foundation UK is hosting an event at the Royal Institution in London on Wednesday 24th June to discuss a new innovative technological system that enables remote forest communities to report illegal activities in real-time.
Find out more
Blog
Announcing our BBC Radio 4 Appeal Presenter - Charlie Hamilton James!
21 May 2015
We are delighted to announce that photojournalist Charlie Hamilton James is our BBC Radio 4 presenter this year! The recording took place at the BBC's Broadcasting House in London yesterday and will first air on July 19.
Find out more
News
Indigenous peoples convene on how new technologies can help respond to new threats in tropical forests
01 May 2015
Indigenous representatives convened in New York to share experiences of community mapping and how emerging technologies could help scale up efforts to document forest peoples’ occupation and use of rainforests in the face of increasing threats.
Find out more
News
Remote rainforest communities can report illegal logging on their lands in ‘real-time’ thanks to ground-breaking technology
28 April 2015
Launch of a technologically innovative system that gives forest peoples the opportunity to send near-instantaneous, highly geographically accurate reports of illegal felling of trees, such as by timber or palm oil companies, from anywhere in the world.
Find out more
Blog
RFUK trains mappers in Cameroon amid renewed threat to rainforest
23 January 2015
RFUK’s mapping coordinator Georges Thierry Handja was in Cameroon last month to continue our support for communities facing threats to their lands. Over just 12 days, RFUK trained teams of people from three regions to support forest communities...
Find out more
News
Congo Basin NGOs call for urgent action on palm oil expansion
13 January 2015
Environmental and human rights organisations from across the Congo Basin have called for urgent action to prevent forest destruction and violations of rights due to the expansion of industrial palm oil plantations in the region.
Find out more
