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Unlocking the potential of forest guardians

Unlocking the potential of forest guardians

This map story produced by FODER and RFUK explores how the ForestLink community real-time forest monitoring system is transforming the detection and enforcement of illegal forest activities in Cameroon and beyond.

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Saving the Cuvette Centrale Peatlands

Saving the Cuvette Centrale Peatlands

This map story produced by RFUK and our local partners in DR Congo and the Republic of Congo highlights the growing risks from logging and the extractive industries to the Cuvette Centrale peatlands, one of the largest carbon sinks on earth, and explains why local communities hold the key to protecting it.

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300 million at risk from CBD drive

300 million at risk from CBD drive

In May 2021, the Conference of Parties to the Convention on Biodiversity (CBD) is set to agree on a new target to place at least 30 percent of the earth’s surface into conservation status by 2030.

MAPPING THE FUTURE: TOWARDS MEANINGFUL PARTICIPATION OF FOREST PEOPLES IN LAND USE PLANNING IN DRC AND CAMEROON

MAPPING THE FUTURE: TOWARDS MEANINGFUL PARTICIPATION OF FOREST PEOPLES IN LAND USE PLANNING IN DRC AND CAMEROON

The Congo Basin rainforest constitutes one of the world’s great biodiversity reserves, plays a crucial role in regulating the global climate and directly sustains the lives of millions of people. It is widely accepted that current land regimes in the Central African countries are inadequate to address the myriad of overlapping and competing claims, uses and pressures on the forest and in recent years…

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Forestlink: Real-time Monitoring

Forestlink: Real-time Monitoring

Real-time community-based monitoring is a tool that connects local people with national law enforcement in an effort to stop illegal logging and deforestation. Using our bespoke ForestLink system, forest communities can send alerts and evidence of a number of threats...

NDIMA – Mapping our Future

NDIMA – Mapping our Future

Accessing and using the forests upon which they depend for survival is one of the main challenges faced by local communities in the Congo Basin rainforests, especially for indigenous 'Pygmies'.  National laws offer very few rights for Central Africa's forest...

What is Participatory Mapping

What is Participatory Mapping

Mapping For Rights, an initiative of the Rainforest Foundation UK, aims to support indigenous peoples and forest dependent communities to secure rights to their land and livelihoods through the use of participatory mapping. This short video shows how mapping can help...