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The Rainforest Foundation - UK



Main Address
City Cloisters
196 Old Street
London
EC1V 9FR
Country
United Kingdom
Main Telephone
+44 (0) 20 7251 6345
Joined OneWorld
11/05/2002

Features
04/08/2008 Hundreds of Cogolese villagers - mostly hunter-gatherers or subsistence farmers - will use high-tech GPS (Global Positioning System) devices to produce digital maps to prove their existence to the government and to loggers.
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Related: [Democratic Republic of the Congo] [Science] [Indigenous Rights] [Forests] [Land]
01/13/2006 Rainforests continue to disappear at an alarming rate despite attempts to "zone" areas for protection and management, according to a new report, which says that timber companies that were allocated vast areas in countries such as Indonesia, Brazil and Cameroon then damaged or destroyed the forest.
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Related: [Forests]
Logging, Cameroon (Photo: Simon Counsell/ Rainforest Foundation)
11/14/2005 New figures on global deforestation released today by the UN are a "global disgrace" and are "grossly misleading, inaccurate and understate the real extent of damage to forests", says a leading forest organisation.
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Related: [Forests] [United Nations]
Image: Logging, Cameroon (Photo: Simon Counsell/ Rainforest Foundation)



 
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