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.
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.
Find out moreFour Peruvian indigenous environmental and human rights activists, including outspoken Asháninka leader Edwin Chota, were brutally murdered on September 1st or 2nd, 2014, near the Brazilian border.
Find out moreA new report by the Rainforest Foundation UK challenges current laws in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) which ascribe all ownership of land to the State and deprive forest dwelling people of any right to own or protect forest for their own benefit.
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