@RFUK

Climate justice for forest communities. Securing lands, sustaining lives.

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Joined January 2009
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Our new investigation into the two largest industrial logging companies in the Democratic Republic of the Congo shines a light on the alleged systemic illegalities that are threatening the Congo Basin - the world's second-largest tropical forest.
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Yale Environment 360@YaleE36017 Sep 2024
The African Commission has ruled that parts of a Congo national park should be returned to the Indigenous Batwa people, who were evicted decades ago. Advocates say the ruling is a “huge win” against “fortress conservation.” e360.yale.edu/features/batwa…

Fortress Conservation: Can a Congo Tribe Return to Its Forest?

An African Union ruling finds that parts of a Congo national park should be returned to the Batwa people, who were evicted decades ago. Advocates say the ruling must be implemented and that the Batwa...

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📢 "We are ready to take up this challenge to protect and sustainably use our ancestral land." Last week, the Batwa People of Kahuzi-Biega celebrated a historic victory for the realisation of their rights in the DRC. Learn more 🔍forestpeoples.org/en/news-ar…
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HAPPENING NOW📢 Batwa of Kahuzi-Biega celebrating the ruling that the DRC violated their rights in dispossessing them of their ancestral land! 'We are ready to take up the challenge of protecting & sustainably using our ancestral lands. Will others be prepared to help us do so?'
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Oakland Institute
@oak_institute27 Aug 2024
New @oak_institute report details how #FortressConservation in #DRC has resulted in land grabs; horrific #humanrights abuses against #Indigenous communities; & facilitates illicit extraction of minerals & other resources. Read & Share – From Abuse to Power: Ending Fortress Conservation in the Democratic Republic of Congo bit.ly/DRConservation @Mittaloak @MinorityRights @Survival @congofriends @WorldRainforest @IfE_Mondial @ForestPeoplesP
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🔔New report - putting people at the centre of forest protection ‘[We] need to prioritise the rights of forest peoples and communities and their crucial role in protecting vital #forest ecosystems’ forestpeoples.org/en/2024/re… #ForPeopleAndNature #ForNature
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GRAIN
@GRAIN_org3 May 2024
🚨 Dieumerci Mpay Ngomba, member of human rights group @RdcRiao, was arrested Monday in Kinshasa while hanging a banner outside a meeting of #palmoil company PHC. A journalist with Numerica TV, Dieuleveut Bofula, was also arrested for taking photos. Both are being held at a military prison. 🧵 1/3
Dieumerci being confronted by a PHC rep outside the meeting

ALT Dieumerci being confronted by a PHC rep outside the meeting

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🏆 #ExcitingNews: we are thrilled to announce that we #won the #RISEgrants challenge! We and our partners @KLandalliance, @RFUK & @ShibuyeW are awarded for up-scaling our #HakiArdhi app, enabling women to report their #LandRightsViolations & #GBV 📲bit.ly/3Ulfi4R
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📢 Join us #now for the #RISEgrants virtual event, hosted by @IUCN , @USAID & @noradno. With our #HakiArdhi reporting tool, we applied for the grant, which supports projects addressing #GBV within #EnvironmentalConservation & #ClimateResilience 🔗tinyurl.com/3wma5j85
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Big Give@BigGive16 Apr 2024
This year, we're going BIG for the environment and for one week of wild savings, starting 12pm (midday) on Thursday, 18th April, #GreenMatchFund will DOUBLE every donation to 249 brilliant green charities. Just visit: bit.ly/GMF24Social #241nature #Earthday @stephenfry
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New launch: RFN and @RightsResources are thrilled to launch the #PathtoScale dashboard—an open-source online tool giving access to donor funding data for the first time for Indigenous Peoples’ and local communities’ rights and forest guardianship. 🧵 regnskog.no/en/news/increase…
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Réseau CREF@reseau_cref15 Mar 2024
These very first figures begin to confirm that community forestry is an innovative model of forest management in the DRC. A glimmer of hope is emerging that this model will really contribute to the sustainable management of forests and the development of the communities.
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GENeva Environment Network@GENetwork8 Mar 2024
Replying to @GENetwork @UNEP @IUCN @SGI_OUNA @IWGIA @ForestPeoplesP @IPRightsIntl @Kenya_IMPACT @SREnvironment @JohnHKnox
#Live now! In the face of the #TriplePlanetaryCrisis, efforts to conserve #nature must respect and protect the #humanrights of those already working to defend it. Join us in this #HRC55 side event! ▶️ tiny.cc/GEN8Mar24 📺 facebook.com/watch/?v=108642… – at Geneva, Switzerland
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Conservation and oil exploration are not compatible in Conkouati. These plans need to be cancelled. @Greenpeaceafric @TheWCS @CAFISecretariat @CongoBasinFP @WWFCongoBasin @RFUK @CIFOR
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Supporting #Indigenouspeoples is crucial to protect the world’s #rainforests and #climate. Why is this still overlooked, asks the Directors of the Rainforest Foundations of the United States, Norway, in a new @MongabayOrg OpEd news.mongabay.com/2024/01/di…
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Lucy Claridge@ClaridgeLucy4 Dec 2023
Kenya's Land Grab Is Profiting From Pain newsweek.com/kenyas-land-gra… @OgiekPeoples @kobskobei @ForestPeoplesP @MinorityRights @RFUK @IWGIA @spinachcharm @jeremie_gilbert

Kenya's Land Grab Is Profiting From Pain

Human rights groups have accused the Kenyan government of selling off acres of forest land to logging companies and tea farmers who have felled thousands of trees.

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Earth Insight@Earth_Insight4 Dec 2023
Replying to @Earth_Insight @coicaorg
🚩 Nearly 129,000 km2 of protected areas in the Congo basin are overlapped by oil and gas blocks across 45 individual protected areas. 🚩 38% of protected lands and waters in the Congo Basin area overlap with oil and gas blocks.
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📢New hybrid event! Come to the launch of our joint report with @GlobalCanopy on Welsh public pensions and global deforestation risk Let's work to ensure our pensions are #DeforestationFree 📅28 November ⏰10-11am Register 👉bit.ly/45X6cxK
Event graphic showing a forest wich has started to be deforested for palm oil. The text over the image reads: "Saving for the future: a report into Welsh public pensions and global deforestation risk. 28 November, 10-11am, Cardiff & Vale College Hybrid event."

ALT Event graphic showing a forest wich has started to be deforested for palm oil. The text over the image reads: "Saving for the future: a report into Welsh public pensions and global deforestation risk. 28 November, 10-11am, Cardiff & Vale College Hybrid event."

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Investigative research for EIA's new report indicates that from 2017 - 2022, at least 1.2 million doors sold to American consumers are at high risk for containing illegally-sourced okoume wood harvested in Equatorial Guinea.
A supply chain map demonstrating how illegally-harvested okoume wood from Equatorial Guinea is processed into doors sold to U.S. consumers

ALT A supply chain map demonstrating how illegally-harvested okoume wood from Equatorial Guinea is processed into doors sold to U.S. consumers

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Happening NOW! Ogiek in Sasimwani being forcefully evicted from their homes! @HakiKNCHR @WMutunga @thekhrc @katibainstitute @TenureFacility @CLAN_Kenya @ILCAfrique @ajws @IWGIA @landislife @NationMediaGrp @TheStarKenya @StandardKenya
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