ALERT Blasts Into The Twitter-Verse ConservationBill LauranceSeptember 10, 2018Twitter, tweet, ALERT videos, rainfall, roads, Malaysia, China, infrastructure, foreign debt, corruption, Australia, Liberal Party, energy security, renewable energy, Amerindians, Amazon, illegal logging, murder, hydropower, Indonesia, PT NSHE, Bhutan, Gross National Happiness, Gross National Product, Tapanuli Orangutan, Africa, oil palm, gorilla, Leuser Ecosystem, Nestle, Mars, Unilever, Borneo, SumatraComment
Right-Wingers Humiliate Australia & Hammer the Earth PoliticsBill LauranceSeptember 2, 2018Australia, Liberal Party, Tony Abbott, Malcolm Turnbull, Prime Minister, Scott Morrison, Peter Dutton, political conservative, right-wing, far-right conservative, climate policy, carbon tax, carbon emissions scheme, fossil fuels, coal, global warming, climate change, political instability, Donald Trump, USA, Indonesia, New Guinea, Great Barrier Reef, Tim Flannery, broadscale land clearing, Queensland, heat wave, drought, runoff, mangroves, mining lobbyComment
Could Feminism Save the Earth? Conservation, Most PopularBill LauranceAugust 5, 2018feminism, Let Girls Learn, population growth, overpopulation, developing nations, demographic transition, immigration, Africa, Middle East, South Asia, Western Europe, North America, Australia, fecundity, generation time, women's rights, social stability, social conflict, education, reproductive rights, career, family size, family planning, divorce, radicalization, Michelle Obama, environmental pressure, environmental destruction, global warming, CaribbeanComment
Should Rhinos Be Introduced To Australia? WildlifeBill LauranceJuly 5, 2018rhino, rhinoceros, black rhino, white rhino, Sumatran rhino, Javan rhino, Indian one-horned rhino, habitat fragmentation, habitat destruction, poaching, rhino horn, endangered species, Vietnam, China, Africa, Asia, megafauna, Sumatra, Java, roads, captive breeding, Australia, savannas, rule of law, eco-tourism, cattle ranching, cattle stations, crazy idea, exotic plant species Comments
Investors Beware: Infrastructure Projects Are Collapsing Infrastructure ExpansionBill LauranceJune 3, 2018China, Belt and Road Initiative, One Belt One Road, high-speed railway, Kuala Lumpur, Singapore, investors, infrastructure, railway, road, hydropower, dam, hydroelectric dam, PNG-LNG, Papua New Guinea - Liquid Natural Gas Project, Papua New Guinea, natural gas, tax avoidance, ExxonMobil, social violence, Amazon, Brazilian Amazon, deforestation, poaching, illegal mining, Michel Temer, President Lula, Brazil, corruption, bribery, risk-reward tradeoff, transparency, developing nations, Australia, Darwin Harbor, Darwin Port, Exim, Chinese Export-Import Bank, Xi Jinping Comment
Australia Tries to Slow 'Deforestation Catastrophe' ConservationBill LauranceMarch 12, 2018Queensland, land clearing, deforestation, Australia, Queensland government, Koala, global deforestation hotspots, WWF-Australia, loopholes, regrowth, Land Restoration Fund Comments
A Dangerous Year For Nature And Its Saviours ConservationBill LauranceAugust 5, 2017murder, conservationists, mining, logging, agribusiness, poaching, Amazon, Brazil, Michel Temer, Dorothy Stang, protected areas, land-grabs, land grabs, environmental laws, Australia, Kevin Rudd, super-profits tax, tax-free status, environmental groups, Global WitnessComment
Biodiversity In Queensland Is Being Bulldozed to Oblivion WildlifeBill LauranceJune 25, 2017Queensland, land clearing, deforestation, bulldozers, Australia, koala, cassowary, Black-throated Finch, invasive species, climate change, woodland, forest, endangered species, Cape York Peninsula, illegal land clearing, Emissions Reduction Fund, 20 Million Trees, Reef Rescue Comments
Vietnam's Logging Scandal: Time for An International Boycott? ConservationJeremy HanceMay 17, 2017Vietnam, timber, timber exports, illegal logging, Cambodia, Jeremy Hance, European Union, U.S.A., Australia, Environmental Investigation Agency, elephant, sun bear, Asian black bear, clouded leopard, golden cat, Sunda pangolin, Virachey National Park, poaching, drug traffickers, murder, FLEGT, proboscis monkey, timber smugglingComment
Australian Wins Egg-Frying Contest For Trump PoliticsBill LauranceFebruary 11, 2017Donald Trump, President Trump, Donald J. Trump, global warming, climate change, Australia, South Australia, Corey Bradshaw, Bill Laurance, William Laurance, egg-frying contest, ALERT, Alliance of Leading Environmental Researchers & Thinkers, heat wave, eggsplain, carbon emissions, Chinese hoax, goanna, monitor lizard, goanna's gonads, ConservationBytes, White HouseComment
Habitat Loss Puts Half the World's Ecosystems at Risk Protected AreasBill LauranceDecember 18, 2016ecoregions, habitat loss, crisis ecoregion, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, Democratic Republic of Congo, Angola, Madagascar, Australia, USA, Canada, protected areas, mangrove forests, subtropical forests, tundra, Convention on Biological DiversityComment
The Mega-Banks Funding Forest Destruction in Southeast Asia RainforestsJeremy HanceNovember 12, 2016banks, lending institutions, deforestation, infrastructure, Forests and Finance, Malaysia Forest, MayBank, ABM Amro, Rainforest Action Network, TuK INDONESIA, Profundo, Malaysia, China, Japan, USA, UK, Indonesia, Australia, ANZ, JPMorgan Chase, HSBC, extinction crisis, World Bank, African Development Bank, Asian Development Bank, Inter-American Development Bank, AIIB, Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, BNDES, Brazilian Development Bank, roads, highways, coal-fired generating plant, Indigenous peoples, divestment, publicity, bad publicity, negative publicity, oil palm, logging, timber, paper pulp, rubber, forest-risk companiesComment
Australia: To Save Your Ecology, Bring Back the Dingo WildlifeJohn TerborghAugust 22, 2016dingo, dingoes, feral cats, red foxes, predator control, dingo fence, John Terborgh, overgrazing, cane toads, fire, burning, cattle, mammal extinctions, Australia, Diprotodon, Thylacine, Red Kangaroos, Megalania, Thylacoleo, marsupial lion, marsupial wolf, quoll, marsupial cat, Aboriginals, Tasmanian Devil, rewilding, landscape of fear, predation, northern savannas, Australian Wildlife Conservancy Comments
Scientists Unite Against Accelerated Habitat Loss in Australia ConservationBill LauranceJuly 22, 2016a, Australia, Queensland, New South Wales, deforestation, bushland clearing, habitat loss, deforestation hotspot, climate change, threatened species, Martine Maron, squirrel glider, Koala, glossy black-cockatoo, red goshawk, Society for Conservation Biology, Ecological Society of Australia, Royal Zoological Society of NSW, Australian Wildlife Management Society, woodland loss, habitat restorationComment
Famed biologist Asks: Is Australia a Continent or just a Continent-sized Island? ConservationBill LauranceApril 20, 2016John Terborgh, Australia, Gondwanaland, Thylacine, canids, felids, raptors, honeyeaters, thornbills, islands, continents, top predators, faunal assemblage, competition, kangaroo, wombat, marsupial lion, monitor lizard, wallaroos, kangaroos, koala, drought, fairly wren, babblers, cooperative breeding, scrub birds, cockatoo, Charles Darwin, endemic speciesComment
Could this little bird halt one of the world's biggest mining projects? Infrastructure ExpansionBill LauranceMarch 21, 2016Carmichael Coal Mine, Adani, Adani Group, Black-throated Finch, Galilee Basin, Queensland, coal mining, habitat loss, extinction, Australia, open-pit coal mine, biodiversity offsets, Eric Vanderduys, April Reside Comment
Killing Koalas and Poisoning Prairies Bill LauranceOctober 20, 2015Corey Bradshaw, Paul Ehrlich, Killing the Koala and Poisoning the Prairie, University of Chicago Press, ConservationBytes, The Population Bomb, USA, Australia, climate change, habitat loss, pollution, politicsComment
Will 'Godzilla' mega-drought cause global crisis? Bill LauranceSeptember 14, 2015drought, El Nino, wildfires, Susan Laurance, William Laurance, Daintree Drought Experiment, Amazon, Borneo, Papua New Guinea, New Guinea, Indonesia, Australia, rainforests, habitat fragmentation, logging, rainfall deficits, mega-drought, Godzilla, NASAComment
Fears about continued large-scale land clearing in Queensland, Australia Bill LauranceAugust 19, 2015Queensland, land clearing, deforestation, habitat protection, regrowth, riparian forest, habitat fragmentation, Australia, Martine Marone, University of Queensland, panic clearingComment
Globally, governments are cracking down on environmental groups Bill LauranceJune 12, 2015environmental groups, green groups, The Conversation, Susan Laurance, Bill Laurance, Cambodia, China, Lao, India, anti-environmental fervor, environmental boycotts, gag clauses, Australia, illegal logging, political conservatives, industry mouthpieces, global warmingComment
