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
Carbon Collapse in Fragmented Forests RainforestsBill LauranceDecember 4, 2017habitat fragmentation, edge effects, tropical forests, frugivorous animals, microclimatic stresses, wind shear, treefalls, carbon emissions, carbon storage, defaunation, hunting, poaching, frugivores, trees, Rebecca Chaplin-Kramer, Nick Haddad, William Laurance, Susan Laurance, Thomas Lovejoy, Amazon, Biological Dynamics of Forest Fragments Project, edge-related fires, surface fires, Carolina Bello, Mauro Galetti Comments
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 Deforestation Is Exactly Like Cancer ConservationBill LauranceApril 26, 2017deforestation, cancer, contagious, contagion, poaching, hunting, roads, highways, developing nations, wilderness, protected areas, tumor, illegal roads, fire, wildfire, Amazon, monitoring, law enforcement, environmental regulations, corruption, silent forests, habitat fragmentationComment
In An Urbanized World, How Do We Keep Valuing Nature? Infrastructure Expansion, Most PopularJeremy HanceMarch 5, 2017nature, nature appreciation, loving nature, Jeremy Hance, forests, deforestation, urban growth, urbanization, rural communities, Brazil, China, shifting baseline, hunting, bushmeat, snares, hunters, overhunting, empty forests, Dominican Republic, West AfricaComment
Double Whammy: Primates and Wilderness in Peril WildlifeBill LauranceJanuary 18, 2017deforestation, Intact Forest Landscapes, habitat fragmentation, hunting, primates, Alejandro Estrada, Lars Laestadius, infrastructure, endangered primates, endangered species, tropical ecosystems, illegal pet trade, bushmeat, overhunting, oil palm, rubber, Nigeria, Cameroon, University of Maryland, UNAM, old-growth forest, human population growthComment
Silent Forests: Battling Hunting Overkill in Southeast Asia WildlifeJeremy HanceOctober 30, 2016hunting, poaching, Southeast Asia, snares, Rhett Harrison, deforestation, roads, infrastructure, dams, logging, mining, defaunation, seed dispersal, bushmeat, tigers, pangolins, wild pigs, deer, core forest, population growth, protected areas Comments
Fragmented Future: Wounded Landscapes Imperil More than Biodiversity Infrastructure ExpansionBill LauranceDecember 21, 2015habitat fragmentation, edge effects, tropical forests, frugivorous animals, microclimatic stresses, wind shear, treefalls, carbon emissions, carbon storage, defaunation, hunting, poaching, frugivores, trees, Rebecca Chaplin-Kramer, Nick Haddad, William Laurance, Susan Laurance, Thomas Lovejoy, Amazon, Biological Dynamics of Forest Fragments Project, edge-related fires, surface fires, Carolina Bello, Mauro GalettiComment
Africa's Greatest Environmental Challenge -- Ever ConservationBill LauranceNovember 28, 2015Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa, development corridors, African Development Bank, mining, agriculture, food security, population growth, Current Biology, roads, railroads, energy infrastructure, power lines, gas lines, colonization, poaching, hunting, deforestation, infrastructure, wildlife, elephant, fires Comments
How well do community-managed lands promote nature conservation? Bill LauranceSeptember 21, 2015community-managed lands, nature conservation, protected areas, hunting, poaching, Amazon, Indonesia, Brazil, Papua New Guinea, traditional landowners, migration, frontier migration, transmigration, indigenous peoples, indigenous lands, gaur, tiger, clouded leopard, golden catComment
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 tigers survive in India? Jean-Philippe PuyravaudJune 7, 2015tigers, Indian tigers, Bengal tigers, hunting, habitat loss, tiger reserves, Jean-Philippe Puyravaud, Priya DavidarComment
Roads to ruin: Southeast Asia's most environmentally destructive highways Bill LauranceDecember 21, 2014roads, highways, deforestation, hunting, poaching, illegal logging, illegal mining, Southeast Asia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand, Myanmar, Gopalasamy Reuben Clements, endangered mammals, endangered species, wilderness, endemic species, Philippines, roads to ruinComment
Explosion of illegal roads in the Amazon Bill LauranceAugust 4, 2014Amazon, roads, Brazil, deforestation, remote sensing, illegal roads, legal roads, logging, hunting, mining, ranchers, loggers, Brazilian Amazon Comments
Megadiversity in peril? Gopalasamy Reuben ClementsJuly 25, 2014Peninsular Malaysia, Malaysia, Rimba, Gopalasamy Reuben Clements, Sheema Aziz, tiger, elephant, deforestation, oil palm, logging, huntingComment
The plight of primates... 9000 killed for one bushmeat market Bill LauranceMarch 31, 2014primates, deforestation, Indonesia, Ivory Coast, Cote d'Ivoire, poaching, overhunting, pet trade, monkeys, orangutan, Leuser Ecosystem, Sumatra, rhinoceros, elephant, tiger, overpopulation, hunting, bushmeatComment
ALERT press release: Roads imperil wilderness Bill LauranceMarch 20, 2014roads, drivers of deforestation, hunting, wildfires, RoadFree, International Day of Forests, press release, ALERTComment
Protect wilderness from rapacious road expansion Bill LauranceMarch 20, 2014roads, developing nations, road expansion, wilderness, RoadFree, Kriton Arsenis, William Laurance, International Day of Forests, deforestation, logging, mining, hunting, illegal colonization, land speculationComment
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
Where should roads go and not go? Infrastructure ExpansionBill LauranceJanuary 25, 2014roads, deforestation, global road map, forest conservation, hunting, agriculture, yield gaps, highways, land-use zoning, protected area, parksComment
