The Global Battle to Protect Our Protected Areas Protected AreasBill LauranceMay 13, 2018PADDD, protected areas, national parks, World Heritage Site, Michel Temer, Brazil, Amazon, RENCA, mining, PADDD Tracker, Selous Game Reserve, Tanzania, Cambodia, Virachey National Park, Bears Ears National Monument, Donald Trump, Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, marine parks, commercial fishing, Jeremy Hance, climate change, mass extinction, New Zealand, Democratic Republic of Congo Comment
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 Vast Congo River to be Imperiled by the World's Biggest Dam Infrastructure ExpansionAlice HughesJune 6, 2016Inga Dam, Inga 3 Dam, Democratic Republic of Congo, Congo River, Congo Basin, roads, powerlines, hydroelectric dam, Transparency International, corruption, deforestation, environmental impact assessments, okapi, bonobo, Congo rainforest, Bundi Valley, aquatic wildlife, freshwater biodiversity, malariaComment
The World's Largest Primate Teeters on the Edge of Extinction WildlifeBill LauranceApril 13, 2016gorilla, Grauer's Gorilla, Democratic Republic of Congo, Jefferson Hall, Andrew Plumtree, Stuart Nixon, Ghislain Vieilledent, critically endangered, poaching, Coltan, illegal mining, Congo Basin, mountain gorilla, civil war, war, park rangers, Punia Gorilla Reserve, Itombwe Natural Reserve, Kahuzi-Biega National Park, blood gold, blood diamonds, blood coltanComment
Endangered vultures being decimated as ivory poachers use poison to kill elephants WildlifeBill LauranceDecember 11, 2015vultures, The Peregrine Fund, Oryx, African savanna elephant, elephant, rhinoceros, Africa, Dancy Ogada, India, endangered species, diclofenac, poison, pesticides, Botswana, Democratic Republic of Congo, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe Comments
Nineteen rangers killed trying to save forest elephants Bill LauranceAugust 10, 2015park ranger, park rangers, Virunga National Park, Garamba National Park, Democratic Republic of Congo, Africa, Equatorial Africa, ivory, illegal hunting, poaching, China, Thailand, Vietnam, Laos, forest elephant, illegal wildlife tradeComment
Rate of tropical rainforest destruction leaps by 62 percent Bill LauranceApril 12, 2015tropical deforestation, tropical rainforests, deforestation, Democratic Republic of Congo, Brazil, Madagascar, Southeast Asia, Neotropics, African tropics, University of Maryland, Landsat, satellite monitoring, FAO, biodiversity loss, extinctionsComment
Export markets are driving much of tropical deforestation Bill LauranceOctober 27, 2014agricultural commodities, soy, beef, timber, palm oil, tropical deforestation, Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Democratic Republic of Congo, Indonesia, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, export markets, globalization, Center for Global Development, greenhouse gas emissions, commodity exports, European Union, E.U., China Comment
Imperiled parks -- the 'new normal'? Bill LauranceApril 23, 2014national parks, protected areas, World Heritage site, Thailand, Democratic Republic of Congo, Brazil, Ecuador, New Zealand, Australia, Virunga National Park, Dong Phayayen-Khao Yai Forest Complex, IUCN, World Heritage Site in Danger Comments
Illegal logging still a scourge for forests globally Bill LauranceApril 21, 2014illegal logging, illegal timber trade, stolen timber, Alan Oxley, Tony Abbott government, Australia, Indonesia, Peru, Democratic Republic of Congo, criminal activities, Anti Forest-Mafia Coalition, illegal logging bill, Rimbunan HijauComment
Eco-crisis: Deadly assaults on park guards growing Bill LauranceApril 17, 2014poaching, Virunga National Park, Democratic Republic of Congo, illegal logging, criminal gangs, park guards, drug traffickers, park encroachment, overpopulationComment
