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PRESS RELEASE: UN 2030 CONSERVATION PLAN COULD DISPOSSESS 300 MILLION PEOPLE
20 July 2020
A new UN drive to increase global protected areas could lead to severe human rights violations and cause irreversible social harm if not backed by much stronger guarantees of the rights of indigenous people and other...
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Civic Response’s Radio Campaign Raises Awareness of ForestLink and Community-led Forest Protection in Ghana
12 June 2020
RFUK’s Ghanaian partner Civic Response has just completed a two-month radio sensitization campaign across the country on community based Real Time Monitoring (RTM)...
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FORESTLINK: UNLOCKING THE POTENTIAL OF FOREST GUARDIANS AND ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENDERS IN TACKLING ILLEGAL LOGGING IN DRC
05 June 2020
FGMC Case Study - May 2020 : With support from the UK Department for International Development (DfID), the Rainforest Foundation UK (RFUK) has been successfully developing and testing a ground-breaking...
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RFUK partner designs COVID-19 poster to help forest communities prepare
12 May 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic has been a testing time for us all. In the effort to halt this pandemic, we have all taken preventative measures to protect our loved ones, others and ourselves...
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Report charts way to better inclusion of forest communities in Congo Basin land use planning processes
15 April 2020
‘Mapping the future: towards meaningful participation of forest peoples in land use planning in DRC and Cameroon’ finds that any land use planning that does not properly consider local communities.
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The ‘Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework’ – a new threat to indigenous people and local communities?
27 February 2020
As a group of experts meet in Rome to draft a plan that could double the global area under protected area status to 30 percent by 2030, the Rainforest Foundation UK (RFUK) and Survival International have raised fears...
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Investigation finds illegal tropical timber from the Democratic Republic of Congo may be finding its way into European markets
04 February 2020
A report by a French news agency has exposed an industrial-scale illegal logging operation linked to high-level corruption in DRC following an investigation by RFUK’s partners’ and other NGOs
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Community Forests change lives: How a Congolese community won rights to their forest
20 December 2019
In September 2018, the community of Ilinga received its official community forest title. The community, whose traditional name means “Unity”, is one of eight in Equateur province in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), supported by...
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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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