This campaign has now closed
We’re all looking for ways to tackle climate change, but indigenous communities have been working for years to preserve forests. RFUK campaign for laws that enable them to claim legal rights to their ancestral lands & equip with them with low-cost simple technologies to defend & protect these areas.
Categories
Beneficiaries
Situation
Forests are the most important ecosystems to preserve to tackle climate change. However, indigenous peoples and local communities who inhabit them still mostly lack land rights to their ancestral forest homes that they have protected for centuries. They also face increasing illegal encroachment, devastating extractive activities and threats for peacefully defending their home. Furthermore, forests under indigenous control store more carbon & more biodiversity than conventional protected areas.
Solution
We campaign for laws that enable forest peoples to claim legal rights to their lands and provide them with easy-to-use tech to map these areas and support the creation of ‘Community Forests’. We also support communities to manage and protect these areas through the development of sustainable management plans and by equipping them with tools to monitor and report illegal logging in real-time, even from the remotest part of the rainforest.
