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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.
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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.
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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...
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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.
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Get Inspired and #MatchMaggie (through Twitter!)
17 December 2014
Five-year-old Maggie wrote to the Rainforest Foundation UK to tell us she will be donating her weekly pocket money – 20 pence – for a whole year!
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New evidence show that world’s second largest rainforest ‘wilderness’ is already occupied and ‘owned’ by African villagers
11 December 2014
New maps put online by the Rainforest Foundation UK following two years of training and helping local villagers to use sophisticated mapping techniques have revealed an extensive network of previously ‘invisible’ forest land ownership, occupation and use.
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Time for a rethink of forest management in the Congo Basin
27 November 2014
The latest in this mini-series on the underlying challenges facing for governance in the Congo Basin, we present ‘Rethinking Community Based Forest Management in the Congo Basin’ a major research study looking at alternatives to industrial-scale logging.
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Press release: A radical change of approach is needed in protected areas - Congo Basin, experts at the World Parks Congress say
19 November 2014
Sydney, Australia. 20.00 Friday 14th November 2014
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