Aid Effectiveness
How community forests can save Africa’s rainforests (and may even help prevent the next pandemic)
Ever since the Kayapo people of Brazil saved their ancestral forest from a destructive mega-dam project in 1989, the Rainforest Foundation has stood behind the conviction that securing land rights for Indigenous Peoples and local communities is the best way to also protect those forests. Evidence from around the world now backs us up: deforestation … Read more
The Green Climate Fund in the Congo Basin Rainforests – Good Money After Bad?
A report published 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 to tropical forests and people on the frontline of climate change unless it is reformed.
Donors called on to address breakdown in forest governance in DR Congo as Chinese company accused of widespread illegal logging
London-based charity the Rainforest Foundation UK (RFUK) and Congolese civil society groups are calling on donors of forestry programmes in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) to address the breakdown in forest governance in DRC after a Chinese company, accused of illegally logging, was suddenly acquitted by a local court. Following reports by local communities … Read more
Aid-funded conservation guards accused of extrajudicial killing
The Rainforest Foundation UK (RFUK) and three leading Congolese human rights organisations have today written to international conservation organisations and government aid agencies calling for an investigation into a new case of extrajudicial killing of a man by ‘eco-guards’ in Republic of Congo. The 32-year old man, called Freddy Ndadé, was arrested near the border … Read more
Norwegian and French governments threaten world’s second largest tropical rainforest
A joint statement by The Rainforest Foundation UK (RFUK), Greenpeace, Global Witness, Réseau Ressources Naturelles (RRN) and Groupe de Travail de Climat REDD Rénové (GTCRR) An area of rainforest the size of Italy is at risk of being cut down by loggers in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), if a Norwegian-funded project to expand industrial … Read more
Norwegian government priming a ‘carbon bomb’ in Congo’s rainforests?
Photo: Norway’s Climate and Environment Minister Vidar Helgesen, left, met with his counterpart in DRC in August 2016. A few weeks after the meeting, minister Robert Bopolo Mbongeza secretly issued two illegal logging concessions covering 4,000 square kilometres. These have still not been cancelled. The Rainforest Foundation UK (RFUK) has today written to Norwegian Prime … Read more
Government of Norway gives green light to continuing massive illegalities in Congo’s rainforests
The government of Norway is today accused by RFUK of encouraging impunity for serious wrong-doing, by failing to insist that illegal logging concessions in the Democratic Republic of Congo are immediately terminated. Responding to recent requests from Rainforest Foundation UK that it should refuse funding to a huge expansion of logging in the DRC, and … Read more
New Norway-backed logging plan for DRC’s rainforest would spell environmental catastrophe
The future of the world’s second largest contiguous rainforest hangs in the balance as the Congolese authorities and international donors consider a proposal to triple the area given out to commercial loggers. The rainforests of the Democratic Republic of Congo, (DRC), have been relatively safe since 2002 when an official ban on the issuing of … Read more
Building Legal Capacity to Protect Forests and Forest Communities’ Rights
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.
Broken Promises: How World Bank Group policies fail to protect forests and forest peoples’ rights
This is a collaborative report published with RFUK and seven other organisations. As the articles in this special issue show, the World Bank has broken several key promises and, sadly, the concerns the authors had about the World Bank’s new Forests Policy turn out to have been all too well founded.
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