The Rainforest Foundation - UK
Primary web addresses
http://www.rainforestfoundationuk.org
Main Address
City Cloisters
196 Old Street
London
EC1V 9FR
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.
Read moreRelated: [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.
Read moreRelated: [Forests]
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.
Read moreRelated: [Forests] [United Nations]
Image: Logging, Cameroon (Photo: Simon Counsell/ Rainforest Foundation)



