Turning Rainforest To Furniture – Global Markets Gobble Up the Congo Basin Rainforests, Editors PicksBill LauranceSeptember 28, 2018China, 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 Comments
ALERT Blasts Into The Twitter-Verse ConservationBill LauranceSeptember 10, 2018Twitter, 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, SumatraComment
ALERT Urges Indonesian President: Save the World's Rarest Ape WildlifeBill LauranceJuly 9, 2018Tapanuli 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 Comments
Nightmare in New Guinea WildlifeJeremy HanceApril 11, 2018New 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 Comment
Can Conservation Corridors Save Nature? WildlifeBill LauranceMarch 23, 2018Thailand, 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 Comments
Brazil's Amazon Sellout Threatens Critical Indigenous Lands PoliticsBill LauranceNovember 13, 2017Brazil, 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 recyclingComment
China's Massive Toll On The Planet ConservationBill LauranceNovember 4, 2017China, illegal timber, stolen timber, illegal timber trade, wood products, exports, deforestation, bribery, illegal logging, Environmental Investigation Agency, Chatham House, voluntary standards, environmental boycotts Comments
New Roads Are Devastating The Congo Infrastructure ExpansionBill LauranceOctober 15, 2017Congo, 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 Comments
Vietnam's Logging Scandal: Time for An International Boycott? ConservationJeremy HanceMay 17, 2017Vietnam, 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 smugglingComment
Conservationists Aghast at Scheme to Degrade 'Heart of Biodiversity' RainforestsBill LauranceDecember 30, 2016Leuser 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 Comment
China's Rapacious Apetite for Timber Is Devastating West Africa's Woodlands ConservationBill LauranceDecember 1, 2016Rosewood, Nigeria, Hazel Chapman, West Africa, savanna, Sahel, Pterocarpus erinaceus, illegal logging, China, illegal timber trade, deforestation Comments
Is Nature Conservation A Lost Cause? ConservationBill LauranceJune 29, 2016Brazil, 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 victoriesComment
Illegal logging explodes in West Africa -- Chinese implicated Pierre-Michel ForgetAugust 15, 2015Senegal, illegal logging, West Africa, China, timber smuggling, Myanmar, Burma, Haidar El Ali, Pierre-Michel Forget, Macky Sall, U.N. Climate ConferenceComment
China screams about arrest of its illegal loggers Bill LauranceJuly 29, 2015Myanmar, Burma, China, illegal logging, timber smuggling, corruption, raw logs, illegal wildlife trade, greenhouse gases, mineralsComment
Protected areas do far better when governments work to make them succeed Bill LauranceJune 23, 2015protected 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 sitesComment
Globally, governments are cracking down on environmental groups Bill LauranceJune 12, 2015environmental 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 warmingComment
Scientific group worries about future of Cambodian and S.E. Asian environments Bill LauranceApril 4, 2015ATBC, 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 assessmentsComment
ALERT's latest campaign: 'Sustainable' corporation blasted for destroying Amazon rainforest Bill LauranceFebruary 5, 2015United 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 Comments
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
Progress in the battle against illegal logging Bill LauranceNovember 27, 2014illegal 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 Comments
