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
How Critical Are Big Parks? Protected AreasJeremy HanceJuly 27, 2017protected 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 BuffaloComment
Why Do We Support Dumb Development? ConservationBill LauranceJuly 10, 2017development 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, rainfallComment
Chinese Investments Could Kill 1,500 Indonesian Orangutans Infrastructure ExpansionBill LauranceMarch 19, 2017Indonesia, 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 Comments
Sabah's 'Bridge to Hell' and other Scary Eco-News from Asia Infrastructure ExpansionBill LauranceFebruary 3, 2017Southeast 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 Comments
The Indonesian Inferno: A Completely Preventable Crisis Bill LauranceOctober 24, 2015Indonesia, 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 Comments
The global collapse of the great animal migrations Bill LauranceSeptember 17, 2015migration, 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, huntingComment
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
Not just rhinos: Hornbill horns fetch stunning prices in illegal wildlife trade Bill LauranceAugust 19, 2015helmeted hornbill, hornbill, Southeast Asia, illegal wildlife trade, China, casique, poaching, ivory, rhino horn, Kalimantan, Borneo, illegal hunting, CITES, Gunung Leuser National Park Comments
The scariest things about climate change are what we don't know Bill LauranceAugust 2, 2015climate 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, loggingComment
The next big environmental crisis: Indonesian New Guinea Bill LauranceMay 16, 2015Indonesian New Guinea, Papua, West Papua, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, industrial logging, oil palm, mining, transmigration, Trans-Papuan Highway, Borneo, Sumatra, President Joko Widodo, biodiversity, deforestationComment
Malaysian 'eco-thug' tries to halt book exposing his crimes Bill LauranceNovember 19, 2014Adbul Taib, Sarawak, corruption, logging, oil palm, Borneo, environmental crimes, Money Logging, Gordon Brown, Lukas Straumann, MalaysiaComment
Palm oil chief grossly distorts facts about deforestation Bill LauranceSeptember 15, 2014Malaysian Palm Oil Council, MPOC, Yusof Basiron, oil palm, palm oil, deforestation, Sarawak, Malaysia, Borneo, orangutans, Sumatra, forest conversionComment
Indonesia plans to destroy another 14 million hectares of forest Bill LauranceSeptember 1, 2014Indonesia, moratorium, REDD pact, Norway, 14 million hectares, logged forest, industrial plantations, pulpwood, oil palm, deforestation, Sumatra, Borneo Comment
'Blood gold': Illegal miners devastating rainforests Bill LauranceAugust 10, 2014Illegal gold mining, illegal mining, Blood gold, blood diamonds, blood ivory, Peru, Brazil, Kayapo Reserve, Indigenous peoples, Indonesia, Borneo, rainforest destruction, corruption, park invasionsComment
Eco-crisis: The devastation of Borneo's forests Bill LauranceJuly 17, 2014Borneo, Indonesia, Malaysia, Brunei, deforestation, industrial logging, selective logging, slash-and-burn, oil palm plantations, oil palm, pulpwood plantations, biodiversity, biodiversity hotspot, forest clearingComment
Does 'vampire' squirrel have world's fluffiest tail? Bill LauranceJuly 8, 2014vampire squirrel, tufted ground squirrel, fluffiest tail, Borneo, rainforest, Indonesia, deforestation, blood, Erik MeijaardComment
Why are Indonesia's forests so imperiled? Bill LauranceApril 9, 2014Indonesia, 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 Comments
Why local people don't like deforestation Bill LauranceMarch 29, 2014microclimate, deforestation, heat, temperature, Borneo, Kalimantan, Erik Meijaard, Climatic Change, local residents, quality of life, mosquitoes, farming, oil palmComment
Fire alert: Could 2014 be 'the year from hell'? Bill LauranceMarch 27, 2014fires, wildfires, ENSO, El Nino, drought, forest fires, Southeast Asia, Indonesia, Amazon, Sumatra, Borneo, climatology, respiratory distress, asthma, smoke, smogComment
