ANNUAL REVIEW 2023

support community forest roundtables that brought together local communities, civil In 2023, RFUK and our local partner GeoFirst society, government, the private sector and supported the establishment of two new the research community from across the community forests covering over 4,600 country to build consensus, learning and hectares in the buffer zone of the Lomami best practices. [...] This, together with the provision of legal support for the communities to follow up on the alerts, has proven crucial in the face of rampant illegal logging and mining, resulting in the identification and destruction of illegal camps and equipment worth millions of dollars. [...] CJJ launched an exciting new project that will support communities in the Lekoumou, Likouala These successes have inspired and empowered and Sangha regions to deploy ForestLink to other communities elsewhere in the area to take monitor human rights violations linked to the up forest monitoring, resulting in the highest natural resource exploitation and receive legal number of ForestLink alerts sen. [...] Through this work, we seek to auction 30 oil and gas blocks, RFUK and our local to amplify the voices local communities and grassroots organisations in partners have been at the vanguard of efforts to tackle the threat this poses to millions of hectares of intact national and international climate and biodiversity processes and promote a tropical forests, the carbon-rich peatlands, more than visio. [...] While there is a long way to go, this Biodiversity Framework that will set the stage is a step in the right direction towards greater for global conservation efforts over the decade, accountability and justice in the protection of our attention has now turned to ensuring biodiversity in the country.