This brochure provides information about a three-year project implemented by the Rainforest Foundation UK and its partners in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The project will implement an experimental approach to community-based natural resource management in order to secure forest-dwellers’ rights to land and natural resources and to ensure that forests in DRC are managed in a sustainable and equitable manner.
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This summary of our projects and campaigns in 2015/2016 offers a highlight of the Rainforest Foundation UK's work with indigenous and forest communities around the world.
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This leaflet presents information on the reality and traditional way of life of local communities in the Council of Nguti, Kupe-Muanenguba Division, in the South West Region of Cameroon.
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*French only* This community 'atlas' provides information on the realities and traditional livelihoods of the communities of Banunu-Bobangi sector, in the territory of Lukolela, Equateur province, in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
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Based on a sample of 34 protected areas across Cameroon, the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Gabon and the Republic of Congo, including four detailed case studies, this study reveals that biodiversity in the region continues to decline, that there is little evidence that the ‘guns and guards’ approach to protected areas is being effective, and that due to aggressive enforcement, conflicts and human rights abuses are widespread and the livelihoods of many local people have been severely compromised.
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Building on RFUK’s 2014 briefing on DRC’s decree 14/018 fixing the modalities for the attribution of local ‘community forest concessions’, this document considers some of the key features, challenges and opportunities emerging from this legislation.
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