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DRC government suspends logging company after civil society reports illegal rainforest logging
05 December 2019
A major illegal logging operation has been halted by the Democratic Republic of Congo’s (DRC’s) government following monitoring by local non-governmental organisations and multiple complaints by forest communities.
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New RFUK executive director appointed
29 November 2019
Joe Eisen has been appointed as the Rainforest Foundation UK’s (RFUK’s) new executive director as incumbent Simon Counsell prepares to leave the organisation after leading it for the last 23 years.
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The realisation of social development projects by logging companies in forest communities: a reality or a utopia?
27 November 2019
Rainforests are among the richest ecosystems in the world and have a vital importance for the populations who live within them. They are home to approximately 30 million people and provide livelihood subsistence to a 75 million people.
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RFUK and Greenpeace Africa express alarm at agreement that could lead to more environmental damage in the Republic of Congo
26 September 2019
Following the meeting of global leaders at the UN climate summit in New York this week, Rainforest Foundation UK and Greenpeace Africa have raised the alarm over an agreement between the governments of Norway and France and the Republic of Congo.
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Area of community forests in DRC passes one million hectares, as RFUK helps DR Congo’s government with new tools
25 September 2019
Human rights and environmental charity, the Rainforest Foundation UK (RFUK), and its local partners in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) are formally handing over to the country’s government an online ‘database’.
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Indigenous Amazonian cocoa producers awarded prestigious 'Equator Prize' at UN Climate Action Summit
25 September 2019
Kemito Ene was awarded the biennial UN Development Programme’s Equator Prize in recognition of its "outstanding community effort to reduce poverty through the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity” at a ceremony in New York.
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Real-Time Monitoring hits the ground running in the Republic of Congo
08 August 2019
Comptoir Juridique Junior (CJJ) is deploying "Real Time Monitoring" (RTM) and the ForestLink technology in the Republic of Congo following their technical training by RFUK in Brazzaville in August 2019...
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New cases of human rights abuses emerge as Buzzfeed exposé shows how WWF tried to cover up earlier reports of atrocities
12 July 2019
Recent investigations by the Rainforest Foundation UK (RFUK) and Congolese group APEM have documented new violent crimes at the hands of park rangers supported by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) in Salonga National Park in Democratic of Congo (DRC).
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The Green Climate Fund in the Congo Basin Rainforests - Good Money After Bad?
01 July 2019
A new report published today by the Rainforest Foundation UK (RFUK) on the Green Climate Fund finds that one of the world’s largest climate adaptation and mitigation funds for developing countries may actually do more harm...
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Voice of the communities: Why we need community forests in the Central African Republic
01 July 2019
In a historic development, three communities in the Central African Republic (CAR) were recently given the legal right to protect almost 15,000 hectares of their local rainforest, in the country’s very first community forests. [1].
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