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Find out moreToday, the Rainforest Foundation UK (RFUK) has launched a new short film on its community forests project in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).
Find out moreA new briefing by RFUK shows that the most effective way to develop community forestry starts with a genuinely participatory approach that reflects the community’s collective needs and priorities.
Find out moreUpwards of 100 communities across Africa will benefit from the Rainforest Foundation UK’s Real-time Monitoring (RTM) project, thanks to new support from the UK Department for International Development (DfID).
Find out moreIn a new policy brief, we explore why community mapping data should be used at the outset of all planned conservation projects, and integrated into all decisions related to protected area management.
Find out moreOver the last two months, dozens of suspected illegal gold miners causing terrible environmental damage in the Peruvian Amazon were caught with the help of the ForestLink smartphone app developed by RFUK.
Find out moreRepresentatives of 21 villages affected by industrial rubber project Sudcam have denounced the impacts of the rubber plantations on their rights and livelihoods.
Find out moreOne of the main reasons that so much of DRC’s forests remain officially unallocated – up to 75 million hectares – is the country’s national moratorium on new industrial logging concessions.
Find out moreRFUK has just launched a new series of thematic briefs showing how community mapping can address human rights and environmental issues across the Congo Basin. Our first instalment focused on REDD+ carbon projects.
Find out moreIn an important milestone for the rights of forest peoples, five communities in DRC's western Equateur Province saw their community forest applications approved this month by the provincial government.
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