Mind-Blowing Videos on Urgent Eco-Dramas
ConservationBill LauranceAmazon, rainfall, habitat fragmentation, deforestation, evapotranspiration, roads, hunting, logging, BR-319, Elephant, poaching, stranded assets, mining, China, boom and bust, financial risk, cancer, Dutch Disease, snaring, Leuser Ecosystem, orangutan, rhino, rhino horn, Pandora's Box, bulldozer, land grabbing, rain, extinction, Congo
China's Belt & Road is "Environmentally Riskiest Venture Ever"
Infrastructure ExpansionBill LauranceBelt and Road Initiative, One Belt One Road, China, infrastructure, roads, Bill Laurance, Asia, Africa, Asia-Pacific region, Europe, habitat destruction, habitat fragmentation, railroads, ports, extractive industries, global warming, fossil fuels, poaching, extinction, protected areas
Which Nations Are Causing The Most Environmental Damage?
Infrastructure ExpansionBill Laurancedeforestation, foreign investment, AIIB, tropical deforestation, Latin America, South America, China, pollution havens, belt and road project, World Bank, carbon emissions, biodiversity loss, extinction, Yale Environment 360, poaching, wildlife poaching, illegal wildlife trade, ivory, ivory smuggling, rhino horn, pangolin
ALERT's Biggest Conservation Stories of 2016
ConservationBill Lauranceextinction, species extinction, habitat loss, habitat destruction, habitat fragmentation, infrastructure, roads, dams, poaching, 2016, Africa, Southeast Asia, Indonesia, Leuser Ecosystem, Nigeria, development corridors, giraffe, Cheetah, Brazilian Amazon, Brazilian Forest Code, Amazon rainforest, Sumatra, geothermal project, hydroelectric dam, Congo, Congo megadams, Bangladesh, tigers, India waterways, wilderness, global human footprint, genetic diversity, China, illegal wildlife trade, overfishing, overhunting, land-use planning, Zero-deforestation agreement, ivory trade, rhino horn, orangutan, Elephant, mass extinction
Standing Tall for Imperiled Giraffes
WildlifeBill Laurancegiraffe, extinction, IUCN, Africa, savanna, molecular genetics, population growth, mining, China, development corridors, mining exports, poaching, WWF Living Planet Report, governance, land-use planning, protected areas
Only Radical Action Will Stop Earth's Sixth Mass Extinction
ConservationBill Lauranceextinction, mass extinction, sixth mass extinction, Bill Laurance, Paul Ehrlich, The Population Bomb, Natalia Ocampa-Penuela, birds, biodiversity hotspots, IUCN Red List, protected areas, human population growth, climate change, wilderness, endangered species
A Vital New Reason To Save Wilderness
ConservationBill Laurancewilderness, deforestation, genetic diversity, genetic variation, inbreeding, Tasmanian Devil, Cheetah, Wolves, habitat disruption, habitat loss, William Laurance, Bill Laurance, carbon storage, water quality, rare species, wildlife, extinction, mutation
Which is the Biggest Killer: Climate Change or Habitat Disruption?
Climate ChangeJeremy Hancedeforestation, habitat fragmentation, overhunting, logging, overfishing, overexploitation, climate change, global warming, heat waves, extinction, species extinctions, Sean Maxwell, Mark Cochrane, Jeremy Hance, IUCN Red List, endangered species, agriculture, farming, protected areas, Amazon, environmental synergisms, fire, weather extremes, coral reefs, cloud forests, sea ice, Arctic
Could this little bird halt one of the world's biggest mining projects?
Infrastructure ExpansionBill LauranceCarmichael 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
Why biodiversity is declining even as protected areas increase
Bill Lauranceprotected areas, biodiversity, biodiversity loss, extinction, habitat destruction, land sparing, land sharing, Ro Hill, infrastructure, G20 nations
Will Australia have to kiss some species goodbye?
Press release: ALERT confronts Australian PM over 'no more parks' vow
Deadly isolation: Tree-clearing may doom flying mammals
The mystery of Australia's small mammal declines
WildlifeBill Laurancemammals, Australia, Northern Territory, Western Australia, extinction, grazing, fire, feral cats, cane toads, fire regimes
Conservation corridors: a hot topic
Conservation, Editors PicksBill Lauranceconservation corridor, wildlife corridor, habitat fragmentation, wounded landscapes, extinction, Stuart Pimm, deforestation, faunal movement, forest carbon, REDD, climate change
Earth's big predators 'being decimated'
ConservationBill Laurancepredators, carnivores, apex predators, mammals, extinction, hunting, trapping, habitat loss, tigers, bears, wild dogs, sea otters, big cats
How does forest fragmentation affect birds?
Infrastructure Expansion, ConservationBill Laurancebirds, bird communities, tropical forests, habitat fragmentation, deforestation, insectivores, frugivores, ecosystem services, ripple effects, temperate forests, temperate ecosystems, global analysis, meta-analysis, extinction, fragment size
Should conservationists fight for the past or the future?
How many species will go extinct?
