Mind-Blowing Videos on Urgent Eco-Dramas ConservationBill LauranceJuly 22, 2018Amazon, 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, CongoComment
China's Belt & Road is "Environmentally Riskiest Venture Ever" Infrastructure ExpansionBill LauranceMay 23, 2018Belt 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 Comment
Which Nations Are Causing The Most Environmental Damage? Infrastructure ExpansionBill LauranceApril 4, 2017deforestation, 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, pangolinComment
ALERT's Biggest Conservation Stories of 2016 ConservationBill LauranceJanuary 2, 2017extinction, 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 Comment
Standing Tall for Imperiled Giraffes WildlifeBill LauranceDecember 14, 2016giraffe, extinction, IUCN, Africa, savanna, molecular genetics, population growth, mining, China, development corridors, mining exports, poaching, WWF Living Planet Report, governance, land-use planning, protected areasComment
Only Radical Action Will Stop Earth's Sixth Mass Extinction ConservationBill LauranceNovember 16, 2016extinction, 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 Comment
A Vital New Reason To Save Wilderness ConservationBill LauranceOctober 12, 2016wilderness, 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, mutationComment
Which is the Biggest Killer: Climate Change or Habitat Disruption? Climate ChangeJeremy HanceSeptember 18, 2016deforestation, 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 Comments
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
Why biodiversity is declining even as protected areas increase Bill LauranceMarch 15, 2015protected areas, biodiversity, biodiversity loss, extinction, habitat destruction, land sparing, land sharing, Ro Hill, infrastructure, G20 nationsComment
Will Australia have to kiss some species goodbye? Bill LauranceMarch 19, 2014extinction, endangered species, Corey Bradshaw, habitat loss, invasive species, triage, biological triage, Australia, triage debateComment
Press release: ALERT confronts Australian PM over 'no more parks' vow Bill LauranceMarch 5, 2014Tony Abbott, Liberal-National Coalition, Australia, national parks, habitat loss, extinctionComment
Deadly isolation: Tree-clearing may doom flying mammals Bill LauranceMarch 5, 2014population isolation, habitat fragmentation, woodland clearing, Queensland, squirrel glider, inbreeding, genetic variation, extinction, forest patchesComment
The mystery of Australia's small mammal declines WildlifeBill LauranceFebruary 19, 2014mammals, Australia, Northern Territory, Western Australia, extinction, grazing, fire, feral cats, cane toads, fire regimesComment
Conservation corridors: a hot topic Conservation, Editors PicksBill LauranceFebruary 7, 2014conservation corridor, wildlife corridor, habitat fragmentation, wounded landscapes, extinction, Stuart Pimm, deforestation, faunal movement, forest carbon, REDD, climate changeComment
Earth's big predators 'being decimated' ConservationBill LauranceJanuary 29, 2014predators, carnivores, apex predators, mammals, extinction, hunting, trapping, habitat loss, tigers, bears, wild dogs, sea otters, big catsComment
How does forest fragmentation affect birds? Infrastructure Expansion, ConservationBill LauranceJanuary 29, 2014birds, bird communities, tropical forests, habitat fragmentation, deforestation, insectivores, frugivores, ecosystem services, ripple effects, temperate forests, temperate ecosystems, global analysis, meta-analysis, extinction, fragment sizeComment
Should conservationists fight for the past or the future? ConservationBill LauranceDecember 26, 2013conservation strategy, extinction, conservation debate, AmazonComment
How many species will go extinct? ConservationBill LauranceDecember 21, 2013extinction, species extinction, species-area curves, global biodiversity, Stuart PimmComment
