 Thanks to the generous support of our members, we are very pleased with the recent expansion and reach of our conservation programs in Amazonia, East Africa and South Asia, and above all, their on-the-ground conservation impact. RCF remains dedicated to supporting grass-roots rainforest conservation efforts that blend local knowledge, scientific research and community efforts into projects that provide concrete conservation and community benefits. We ask that you continue to support us during 2011 as we advance our goals and face new challenges. Invite your friends to join as new members, and please do not hesitate to contact us if you have questions or ideas.
Continue reading A note from RCF President Jim Penn
 From the George Mason University News:
When he goes to visit the Maijuna people in the Peruvian Amazon, Mason student German Perilla is welcomed by the name they gave him — “ua” — which means, simply, “bee.”
An appropriate name, given that last year Perilla brought more than 600,000 honeybees to their small community as part of a beekeeping program through his studies at Mason. Perilla is pursuing a master’s degree in interdisciplinary studies, with a focus in environmental science and community engagement.
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 RCF Treasurer Jonathan Green and RCF Board member Joy Schochet visited with RRI members in Sri Lanka during January 2010. Impressed with their tour of this grassroots rainforest conservation and restoration effort, RCF decided to support this project during 2010. Sri Lanka has been classified as a biodiversity hot spot, which means it is one of the 25 richest and most threatened reservoirs of plant and animal life on earth.
Continue reading Rainforest corridor program in southern Sri Lanka
 The Eastern Arc Mountains are a series of mountains skirting the coastal region of Tanzania with a tiny extension into south-eastern Kenya. This mountain range is renowned for its biodiversity and high levels of endemism, and as a result, is often described as the “Galapagos Islands of Africa.” Within this range lie the East Usambara Mountains of Tanzania, and the 6000 hectare Amani Nature Reserve has given these threatened cloud forests stronger protected status, but much work remains to be done.
Continue reading Conservation work in the Amani Nature Reserve area, Tanzania
 The Maijuna, also known as the Orejón, are an endangered and marginalized indigenous group found in the northeastern Peruvian Amazon. Today, there are only 400 Maijuna individuals left living in four villages in a large area between the Napo and Putumayo Rivers. The intact nature of Maijuna ancestral lands and the biological diversity present within them is a testament to the past and present environmental stewardship of the Maijuna and the sustainability of their traditional resource use and management strategies.
Continue reading Biocultural conservation in association with the Maijuna tribe
 Conservation work in the Área de Conservación Regional Comunal Tamshiyacu-Tahuayo (ARCTT) to protect the reserve and to support the communities in the buffer zone of the reserve.
RCF has continued conservation work on the Área de Conservación Regional Comunal Tamshiyacu-Tahuayo (ARCTT) with extensionists from our sister group in Peru, the Asociación para la Conservación y Desarrollo Amazónico (ACDA), other contracted extensionists, a nurse, and local villagers.
Continue reading Conservation work in the Area de Conservacion Regional Comunal Tamshiyacu-Tahuayo, Peruvian Amazon
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