News and discussion about forest mapping and land tenure in the Congo Basin
Actualités et analyses sur la cartographie et les droits aux terres dans le bassin du Congo
What does a community-managed forest look like in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)? That is precisely the question that the Rainforest Foundation UK (RFUK) and our partners are currently working to answer through our Community Forests (CF) project, funded by the UK Department for International Development (DfID). In February 2016, the DRC government passed landmark community forest legislation, creating…
With support from the Rainforest Foundation UK (RFUK), Kemito Ene, the cooperative representing hundreds of Asháninka cocoa producers in Peru, has just signed an agreement to export 90 tonnes of certified organic cocoa for the international market. The agreement has been made possible in part thanks to a growing relationship with organic chocolate maker Loving Earth. “We are so excited…
Today the Rainforest Foundation UK (RFUK) is releasing the first of a new short film series about why, if we want to protect the world’s rainforests, local people need to be at the centre of nature conservation efforts. As part of a global scramble to mitigate climate change, countries around the world have pledged to preserve forests by creating new…
The Rainforest Foundation UK (RFUK) has just launched Rainforest Parks and People – an interactive website aimed at increasing the transparency and accountability of conservation projects across Africa’s Congo Basin rainforests, and showing how such projects have impacted on local people. Drawing on publicly available information as well as RFUK’s own field research, Rainforest Parks and People features 34 protected areas…
Since launching our community-based real-time monitoring (RTM) project in 2015, the Rainforest Foundation UK (RFUK) has helped train dozens of community observers in rainforest communities across Cameroon, Ghana and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Community observers are now sending increasing numbers of real-time alerts, and our partners are looking at how best to further develop the RTM project. Recently,…
A third national Roundtable on Community Forestry took place this month in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), bringing together 90 stakeholders from across government, Congolese civil society and the international community. In February 2016, the DRC government passed game-changing community forest legislation in what is arguably the most significant legal development related to Central Africa’s tropical forests in recent…
The Rainforest Foundation UK was in Marrakech, Morroco last week to accept the 2016 ‘Momentum for Change’ award, presented by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). The award ceremony, held during the COP22 climate conference, was an opportunity to showcase innovative initiatives from around the world that offer real solutions to address climate change. This prestigious prize was…
At a four-day workshop in Nguti sub-division, Cameroon, representatives from over 50 local communities presented the results of their participation in MappingForRights, RFUK’s community mapping and monitoring initiative. Funded by the UK Department for International Development (DFID) and implemented in Cameroon with local organisations Ajemalibu Self Help (AJESH) and Forêts et Développment Rural (FODER), MappingForRights supports remote forest communities in developing accurate…
