ForestLink

ForestLink training wraps up in Abong-Mbang: Another rainforest community ready to protect their environment

16 September 2016

Yesterday, the Rainforest Foundation UK team were in the forests near Abong-Mbang, Cameroon. We spoke to six members of one local community, including the chief, about the problems they’re facing in relation to the illegal exploitation of their forests. For them, the forest is their life, their livelihood. They simply can’t live without it. Many … Read more

ForestLink training continues: testing the technology in Abong-Mbang

14 September 2016

On Monday, following the last day of ‘Training the Trainer’, the group travelled east to Abong-Mbang, where Forêts et Développement Rural (FODER) and two local NGOs have been training 12 community observers in our ForestLink technology. In the afternoon, the group split up into teams of two and three and ventured outdoors to test their new-found skills and technology. RFUK’s … Read more

Fighting illegal logging in Cameroon: Training the first ForestLink monitors

12 September 2016

The Rainforest Foundation UK, in collaboration with its local partner in Cameroon, FODER, has successfully developed and tested its ForestLink system. This ground-breaking new system enables communities anywhere in the world to use satellite-linked smartphones to report illegal logging, environmental crimes and human rights abuses taking place in some of the most remote parts of the planet. … Read more

Official launch of community-based real-time forest monitoring project in Ghana

30 April 2016

The Rainforest Foundation UK is excited to launch our first ever project in Ghana. On 27th and 29th of April 2016, our real-time forest monitoring (RTM) project was officially launched in the Nkawie and Goaso Forest Districts in Ghana, respectively. Representatives from government agencies, participating communities and civil society organisations gathered to learn more about … Read more

ForestLink – putting the power to save forests in local peoples’ hands

29 June 2015

An audience at The Royal Institution (RI) in London on Wednesday heard how millions of ‘community forest monitors’ could be mobilised by a new system devised by RFUK that enables them to report illegal logging in real-time. The meeting heard from Georges-Thierry Handja, RFUK’s mapping coordinator,that the system had already been successfully tested in Cameroon and would … Read more

Real-time Community-based Forest Monitoring: Challenges and Opportunities

1 June 2015

This briefing presents the main findings from a study and consultation covering nine countries, conducted for The Rainforest Foundation UK in April 2015. It follows the successful technical testing in Cameroon of RFUK’s ForestLink technology.

Peru: RFUK’s Programme in the Andean Amazon

1 January 2014

RFUK has worked in Peru since 1998, supporting the indigenous peoples of the central Amazon forest region and the Vilcabamba mountain range to defend their lands and their right to lead a life in accordance with their culture and wishes. These mountain and forest regions are some of the most biodiverse ecosystems in the world.