ALERT Blasts Into The Twitter-Verse
ConservationBill LauranceTwitter, 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, Sumatra
How Critical Are Big Parks?
Protected AreasJeremy Hanceprotected areas, national parks, endangered species, ecosystems, carbon storage, environmental services, snow leopards, rare species, park size, Colombia, Borneo, Danum Valley, Malaysia, Chiribiquete National Park, hunting, logging, rainforests, climate change, corridors, conservation corridors, Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument, President Obama, President Trump, E. O. Wilson, Half Earth, marine protected areas, climate refugia, Puerto Sabalo-Los Monos Reserve, Monochoa Reserve, big reserves, wildlife corridor, cheetah, ocelot, toucan, Daintree, African forest elephant, Cape Buffalo
Why Do We Support Dumb Development?
ConservationBill Laurancedevelopment projects, stranded assets, Dutch Disease, perverse incentives, corruption, oil palm, roads, tropical forests, deforestation, dumb development, Borneo, Malasyia, Nichola Abrams, Africa, Asia, Latin America, Oceania, highways, potholes, erosion, rainfall
Chinese Investments Could Kill 1,500 Indonesian Orangutans
Infrastructure ExpansionBill LauranceIndonesia, orangutan, peat, peatland, peat forest, West Kalimantan, Borneo, deforestation, drainage canal, President Jokowi, President Joko Widodo, PT Mohairson Pawan Khatulistiwa, Sungai Putri peat swamp, Beng Seng Materials, Ketapang Regency, haze, moratorium
Sabah's 'Bridge to Hell' and other Scary Eco-News from Asia
Infrastructure ExpansionBill LauranceSoutheast Asia, biodiversity, Sabah, infrastructure, Lower Kinatatangan Wildlife Sanctuary, bridge, Bornean elephant, organutan, poaching, deforestation, Alice Hughes, primates, oil palm, rubber, paper pulp, woodpulp, ecotourism, undiscovered species, undiscovered biodiversity, karst, cement, China, wetlands, protected areas, overhunting, Mekong River, dams, pet trade, orangutan, Bridge to Hell, Borneo
The Indonesian Inferno: A Completely Preventable Crisis
Bill LauranceIndonesia, fires, haze, smoke, smog, school closures, airport closures, air pollution, carbon emissions, peatlands, peat fires, deforestation, Singapore, Malaysia, New Guinea, Sumatra, Borneo, Micronesia, President Joko Widodo, El Nino, drought, Erik Meijaard, fire ban, Brazil, remote sensing, Global Forest Watch, oil palm, Council of Palm Oil Producer Countries, zero deforestation
The global collapse of the great animal migrations
Bill Laurancemigration, migratory species, buffalo, elephants, gaur, Indochina, Cambodia, Borneo, sun bear, bearded pig, shorebirds, China, Korea, Mohave Desert, bighorn sheep, Serengeti, wildebeest, David Wilcove, habitat fragmentation, hunting
Will 'Godzilla' mega-drought cause global crisis?
Bill Laurancedrought, 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, NASA
Not just rhinos: Hornbill horns fetch stunning prices in illegal wildlife trade
Bill Laurancehelmeted hornbill, hornbill, Southeast Asia, illegal wildlife trade, China, casique, poaching, ivory, rhino horn, Kalimantan, Borneo, illegal hunting, CITES, Gunung Leuser National Park
The scariest things about climate change are what we don't know
Bill Lauranceclimate change, global warming, environmental impacts, biodiversity, environmental synergisms, William Laurance, scientific uncertainty, global circulation models, precipitation, rainfall, rainforests, Amazon, Borneo, fires, heat waves, high-elevation endemics, cool-adapted species, thermal specialists, climate change deniers, habitat fragmentation, logging
The next big environmental crisis: Indonesian New Guinea
Bill LauranceIndonesian New Guinea, Papua, West Papua, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, industrial logging, oil palm, mining, transmigration, Trans-Papuan Highway, Borneo, Sumatra, President Joko Widodo, biodiversity, deforestation
Malaysian 'eco-thug' tries to halt book exposing his crimes
Bill LauranceAdbul Taib, Sarawak, corruption, logging, oil palm, Borneo, environmental crimes, Money Logging, Gordon Brown, Lukas Straumann, Malaysia
Palm oil chief grossly distorts facts about deforestation
Bill LauranceMalaysian Palm Oil Council, MPOC, Yusof Basiron, oil palm, palm oil, deforestation, Sarawak, Malaysia, Borneo, orangutans, Sumatra, forest conversion
Indonesia plans to destroy another 14 million hectares of forest
Bill LauranceIndonesia, moratorium, REDD pact, Norway, 14 million hectares, logged forest, industrial plantations, pulpwood, oil palm, deforestation, Sumatra, Borneo
'Blood gold': Illegal miners devastating rainforests
Bill LauranceIllegal gold mining, illegal mining, Blood gold, blood diamonds, blood ivory, Peru, Brazil, Kayapo Reserve, Indigenous peoples, Indonesia, Borneo, rainforest destruction, corruption, park invasions
Eco-crisis: The devastation of Borneo's forests
Bill LauranceBorneo, Indonesia, Malaysia, Brunei, deforestation, industrial logging, selective logging, slash-and-burn, oil palm plantations, oil palm, pulpwood plantations, biodiversity, biodiversity hotspot, forest clearing
Does 'vampire' squirrel have world's fluffiest tail?
Why are Indonesia's forests so imperiled?
Bill LauranceIndonesia, deforestation, logging concessions, industrial concessions, oil palm, pulpwood plantations, industrial fiber plantations, APRIL, APP, Asia Pulp & Paper, Sumatra, Borneo, Kalimantan, Indonesian Borneo, Papua, Lian Pin Koh
Why local people don't like deforestation
Bill Laurancemicroclimate, deforestation, heat, temperature, Borneo, Kalimantan, Erik Meijaard, Climatic Change, local residents, quality of life, mosquitoes, farming, oil palm
Fire alert: Could 2014 be 'the year from hell'?
Bill Laurancefires, wildfires, ENSO, El Nino, drought, forest fires, Southeast Asia, Indonesia, Amazon, Sumatra, Borneo, climatology, respiratory distress, asthma, smoke, smog
