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!
Find out moreNew 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.
Find out moreThe 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.
Find out moreSydney, Australia. 20.00 Friday 14th November 2014
Find out moreFormer staffer follows in footsteps of famous journalist and offsets them for RFUK!
Find out moreRFUK partner, Ruth Buendía, has received two further awards in recognition of defending the human and environmental rights of the Asháninka people in the Peruvian Amazon.
Find out moreSave ethically with Triodos Bank and help support indigenous people defend their rainforest home! For every savings account opened and with £100 deposited, Triodos will donate £40 to RFUK
Find out moreKinshasa: WWF and the DRC government’s protected areas authority have agreed to reconsider the status of a controversial protected area after meeting with representatives of local communities threatened with loss of land and access to natural resources.
Find out moreAs conservationists worldwide prepare for a 10-yearly global summit on protected areas, new investigations by the Rainforest Foundation UK (RFUK) reveal that national parks and other conservation zones in Africa’s Congo Basin rainforest are failing.
Find out moreThe DRC is at a cross-roads. The passing of the long-awaited community forest decree, ongoing land reform initiatives, land-use zoning/planning and development of large-scale REDD projects, are all likely to impact the world’s second largest rainforest.
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