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Press Release - England Challenged to Game by Brazilian Rainforest Tribe
30 May 2014
England’s world cup team have been challenged to a football game by one of Brazil’s largest and fiercest native Amazonian people, the Kayapó.
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School Fundraiser Success
14 May 2014
Excited and enthralled by their topic, Year 5 at Aughton Christ Church School in Lancashire, arrived to a rainforest themed classroom with 'Explorer Swift' (A.K.A their teacher - Mr Swift) greeting them as they entered.
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Press Release - Indigenous partner of RFUK in the Peruvian Amazon awarded prestigious international environmental prize
28 April 2014
An indigenous leader and long-term partner of The Rainforest Foundation UK, (RFUK), in the Peruvian Amazon is to receive the Goldman Environmental Prize at a ceremony in San Francisco this evening.
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Delegates trained on mapping methodologies and GIS tools at Cameroon Conference
16 April 2014
Representatives from civil society organisations, the Ministry of Forests and Wildlife (Cameroon) and the Ministry of Water and Forests (Gabon and Central African Republic) have learnt how mapping methodologies and related GIS can support national policy.
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Newsletter - Asháninka cocoa growers report record production levels for 2013
16 April 2014
The Asháninka cocoa and coffee association Kemito Ene (cocoa of the Ene River) which represents 200 Asháninka farmers achieved a production of 18 tonnes of cocoa during 2013 – seven tonnes more than the previous year.
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Newsletter – Putting Communities on the Map quicker!
15 April 2014
Mapping data can now be transferred directly from the field through the use of specialised software and GPS-enabled tablets – marking phase two of the Rainforest Foundation UK’s (RFUK’s) MappingForRights initiative.
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Update on the CAR Crisis
15 April 2014
The Rainforest Foundation UK has taken concrete measures to protect the staff of la Maison de l’Enfant et de la Femme Pygmées (MEFP) – our main NGO partner in the Central African Republic, following several months of internal instability in the country.
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Workshop was an "expression of our vision of participatory management of natural resources in Gabon" - Brainforest
15 April 2014
Indigenous and forest peoples from the Gabonese rainforest joined civil society organisations, the new Gabonese Ministry of Forests and the Environment and Protection of Natural Resources at a national workshop in Libreville.
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RFUK opposes planned lifting of logging moratorium in the DRC
08 April 2014
The Rainforest Foundation UK (RFUK) has joined forces with other international campaigning NGOs to oppose the imminent lifting of a moratorium on the allocation of new industrial logging concessions in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).
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NY TIMES ARTICLE: A Battle to Protect Forests Unfolds in Central Africa
01 January 2014
Indigenous people, environmentalists and industries vie for control over lands that can offer economic benefits or climate protection — but not always both.
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