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Building Legal Capacity to Protect Forests and Forest Communities’ Rights
01 April 2013
RFUK is developing special training programmes for teams of young African lawyers to work with forest communities and local organisations, helping them defend community rights to lands and resources and basic rights, stop illegal forest destruction, confront abuse of forest peoples’ rights, obtain essential legal documents, and establish legally-designated community forest areas.
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Seeds of destruction: Expansion of industrial oil palm in the Congo Basin
01 January 2013
The cultivation of palm oil at an industrial-scale has wreaked havoc with the rainforests and forest peoples of South-East Asia and is now threatening rainforests in the Congo Basin. This report, the result of original research commissioned by The Rainforest Foundation UK, lifts the lid on the new expansion of oil palm developments in the Congo Basin.
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RFUK Annual Report 2011/12
31 December 2012
This summary of our projects and campaigns in 2011/2012 offers a highlight of the Rainforest Foundation UK's work with indigenous and forest communities around the world.
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Rainforest Roulette? Why creating a forest carbon offset market is a risky bet for REDD
01 September 2012
This briefing argues that the creation of an international forest carbon market to finance REDD would be a sub-prime option for the climate, tropical forests and forest peoples.
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RFUK Annual Report 2010/11
31 December 2011
This summary of our projects and campaigns in 2010/11 offers a highlight of the Rainforest Foundation UK's work with indigenous and forest communities around the world.
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Is REDD-readiness taking us in the right direction? Case studies from the Accra Caucus
01 November 2011
The Accra Caucus on Forests and Climate Change is a network of around 100 southern and northern civil society and Indigenous Peoples’ organizations from 38 countries. Despite the diversity of experience, there seems to be one common aspect: the REDD+ readiness process is focused much more strongly on attracting carbon income than on protecting the environment or the rights of forest-based peoples and communities.
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