Posts tagged illegal logging
Turning Rainforest To Furniture – Global Markets Gobble Up the Congo Basin
Rainforests, Editors PicksBill LauranceChina, deforestation, Congo Basin, Congo rainforest, Logging, United State, Global Markets, African Timber, European Union, illegal logging, Cameroon, native forests, timber-importing nations, Global Timber Trade, Chinese loggers, Furniture
ALERT Blasts Into The Twitter-Verse
ConservationBill LauranceTwitter, 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, Sumatra
ALERT Urges Indonesian President: Save the World's Rarest Ape
WildlifeBill LauranceTapanuli Orangutan, Indonesia, President Joko Widodo, President Jokowi, ALERT, scientists' letter, Onrizal Onrizal, North Sumatra, Bill Laurance, Jatna Supriatna, Sumatran tiger, Batang Toru, hydropower, Bank of China, Sinohydro, Asian Development Bank, International Finance Corporation, World Bank, Belt & Road Initiative, habitat fragmentation, roads, illegal logging, oil palm plantations
Nightmare in New Guinea
WildlifeJeremy HanceNew Guinea, Papua New Guinea, Papua Province, West Papua Province, Indonesia, deforestation, logging, SABL, tree-kangaroo, bird of paradise, China, Trans-Pacific Partnership, global warming, Merauke, POSCO Daewoo, Mighty Earth, coral reefs, acid-sulfate soils, sedimentation, nutrient runoff, illegal logging, traditional landowners
Can Conservation Corridors Save Nature?
WildlifeBill LauranceThailand, wildlife corridor, conservation corridor, habitat fragmentation, fragmentation threshold, Highway 304 Wildlife Corridor, Indochinese Tigers, Dong Phayayen-Khao Yai Forest Complex, World Heritage site, poaching, illegal logging, roads, One Belt One Road, China, economic risks, environmental risks, social risks
Brazil's Amazon Sellout Threatens Critical Indigenous Lands
PoliticsBill LauranceBrazil, indigenous groups, Michel Temer, corruption, ruralist, impeachment, Brazilian Congress, protected areas, forest roads, illegal land claims, land-theft, modern-day slavery, fires, illegal logging, illegal mining, G-7 Pilot Program for the Brazilian Amazon, rainfall recycling
China's Massive Toll On The Planet
ConservationBill LauranceChina, illegal timber, stolen timber, illegal timber trade, wood products, exports, deforestation, bribery, illegal logging, Environmental Investigation Agency, Chatham House, voluntary standards, environmental boycotts
New Roads Are Devastating The Congo
Infrastructure ExpansionBill LauranceCongo, deforestation, logging, mining, illegal logging, poaching, Cross River Gorilla, Cameroon, Nigeria, Eugene Dongmo, Louis Nkembi, Arend de Haas, GLAD data, time-series, infrastructure, roads, fragmentation, EIAs, protected areas, law enforcement, China, Chinese loggers, Chinese miners, remote-sensing data, cultural conservation, Africa, rainforest
Vietnam's Logging Scandal: Time for An International Boycott?
ConservationJeremy HanceVietnam, timber, timber exports, illegal logging, Cambodia, Jeremy Hance, European Union, U.S.A., Australia, Environmental Investigation Agency, elephant, sun bear, Asian black bear, clouded leopard, golden cat, Sunda pangolin, Virachey National Park, poaching, drug traffickers, murder, FLEGT, proboscis monkey, timber smuggling
Conservationists Aghast at Scheme to Degrade 'Heart of Biodiversity'
RainforestsBill LauranceLeuser Ecosystem, Gunung Leuser National Park, Sumatra, Indonesia, orangutan, Elephant, Sumatran rhino, Sumatran tiger, Hitay Holdings, geothermal project, deforestation, illegal logging, illegal mining, poaching, roads, Siti Nurbaya, Kappi Plateau, Kappi Region, wildlife corridor, protected area, World Heritage site
China's Rapacious Apetite for Timber Is Devastating West Africa's Woodlands
ConservationBill LauranceRosewood, Nigeria, Hazel Chapman, West Africa, savanna, Sahel, Pterocarpus erinaceus, illegal logging, China, illegal timber trade, deforestation
Is Nature Conservation A Lost Cause?
ConservationBill LauranceBrazil, Cambodia, infrastructure, Tanzania, William Laurance, Amazon, highways, dams, illegal logging, elephants, Seima Protected Area, Serengeti Highway, no-deforestation pledges, corporations, Stephen Blake, poaching, oil palm, woodpulp, Michelin, Aceh, Leuser Ecosystem, Amazon dams, Africa, development corridors, commodity prices, China, Brazilian Congres, Lacey Act, FLEGT, Australian Illegal Logging Bill, Chatham House, Cameroon, Indonesia, conservation victories
Illegal logging explodes in West Africa -- Chinese implicated
Pierre-Michel ForgetSenegal, illegal logging, West Africa, China, timber smuggling, Myanmar, Burma, Haidar El Ali, Pierre-Michel Forget, Macky Sall, U.N. Climate Conference
China screams about arrest of its illegal loggers
Bill LauranceMyanmar, Burma, China, illegal logging, timber smuggling, corruption, raw logs, illegal wildlife trade, greenhouse gases, minerals
Protected areas do far better when governments work to make them succeed
Bill Lauranceprotected areas, nature reserves, national protection, IUCN categories I-IV, IUCN categories V-VI, Corey Bradshaw, William Laurance, Ian Craigie, poaching, illegal logging, illegal encroachment, biodiversity, extinctions, World Heritage sites
Globally, governments are cracking down on environmental groups
Bill Lauranceenvironmental groups, green groups, The Conversation, Susan Laurance, Bill Laurance, Cambodia, China, Lao, India, anti-environmental fervor, environmental boycotts, gag clauses, Australia, illegal logging, political conservatives, industry mouthpieces, global warming
Scientific group worries about future of Cambodian and S.E. Asian environments
Bill LauranceATBC, ATBC-Asia-Pacific, Phnom Penh Declaration, Mondulkuri Province, Srea Ampos-Kbal Damrei Road, WWF Greater Mekong, Cam, Cambodia, Leopard, Elephant, Banteng, wildlife poaching, illegal logging, Seng Teak, William Laurance, infrastructure expansion, roads, dams, Mekong River, environmental impact assessments
ALERT's latest campaign: 'Sustainable' corporation blasted for destroying Amazon rainforest
Bill LauranceUnited Cacao, Peru, Peruvian Amazon, deforestation, cacao, chocolate, Cacao del Peru Norte, Thomas Lovejoy, Lian Pin Koh, William Laurance, environmental sustainability, green-washing, tropical rainforest, illegal mining, illegal logging
Roads to ruin: Southeast Asia's most environmentally destructive highways
Bill Lauranceroads, 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 ruin
Progress in the battle against illegal logging
Bill Lauranceillegal logging, Chatham House, timber-importing nations, USA, Britain, France, Japan, Netherlands, FLEGT, Lacey Act, Illegal-logging Prohibition Act, Australia, China, Russia, Malaysia, Alan Oxley, wood products, paper products
