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Our Christmas shop is open for business with plenty of lovely goodies to fill the stockings of the environmentally conscious during this festive season. We promise our gifts will make not only you and your loved ones feel good, but also a host of forest peoples who will certainly benefit from your season's greetings.
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Thank you one and all!
The sun finally made its way out from the clouds and yesterday's Run for the Rainforest in Finsbury Park was a tremendous success. The Rainforest Foundation UK would like to thank everyone who braved the cold and came along. We had over 1700 athletes competing in this our 9th annual event, and whether you ran the race or cheered on friends and family, your support was greatly appreciated. Special thanks must go to Finsbury Park, Britvic, Sunstone Health & Leisure Club For Women, our RFUK volunteers and of course all the valiant runners who competed on the day including the group of fantastic children who ran the 1K. We will have a tally of the money raised and a photo gallery from the day online shortly.
All the runners who were chipped can see their run times online by clicking the link in the news story further down this page, but as a quick update, the top five men and women across the line on the day were as follows:
TOP 5 MEN
MALACHI BYANSI - 36:19 (GT); 36:18 (CT)
IAIN GRAY - 37:17 (GT); 37:12 (CT)
FABIEN LASSONDE - 37:41 (GT); 37:40 (CT)
JAMES ATKINS - 37:54 (GT); 37:52 (CT)
ALEX ROBINSON - 38:16 (GT); 38:12 (CT)
TOP 5 WOMEN
NICOLA FROUD - 40:21 (GT); 40:14 (CT)
HELENA LACZKO - 41:09 (GT); 41:01 (CT)
KYLIE WINIKEREI - 42:09 (GT); 42:05 (CT)
LARINDA POOLE - 43:14 (GT); 43:03 (CT)
AMY LEEDHAM - 43:33 (GT); 43:20 (CT)
NB - GT (Gun Time), CT (Chip Time)
Conflict in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo
The Rainforest Foundation UK would like to express its concern for our partners and friends working for peace, progress and development in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo and support the call being echoed around the world for urgent international action to contain the crisis. We would like our partners in DRC to know that we are here to do what we can, and hope that above all, they can continue to protect the safety of themselves, their communities and their projects.
La Rainforest Foundation Royaume-Uni tient à exprimer sa profonde préoccupation quant à la situation de ses partenaires et amis qui travaillent pour la paix, le progrès et le développement dans l'est de la République Démocratique du Congo, et soutient les nombreux appels à une mobilisation internationale urgente pour une résolution de la crise. Que nos partenaires sachent que nous sommes à leurs cotés et que, plus que tout, nous souhaitons qu'ils puissent assurer leur sécurité personnelle, ainsi que celle de leurs proches et des communautés avec lesquelles ils travaillent.
Do Trees Grow on Money?
Rainforests are back on the global agenda in a big way. Governments now recognise the importance of protecting tropical forests in order to avoid dangerous climate change, and there is now much debate. As governments try to thrash out the details of a new international agreement, expected to be signed at the end of 2009, they are discussing how best to include measures to save rainforests, and thereby address one of the major causes of climate change. Worldwide, forest destruction generates more greenhouse gas emissions each year than do all the trains, planes and cars on the planet. So if we are to tackle global warming, there is an urgent need to find ways to reduce the 20% of global greenhouse gas emissions caused by forest destruction each year, and to keep the remaining forests standing.
Blogs
Sam's been back to Central African Republic (CAR) one of the most inaccessible countries in the Congo Basin. Read about his experiences here.
