Should We Fear the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank?
Infrastructure Expansion, Editors PicksBill LauranceAIIB, Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, Transport Sector Strategy, roads, railways, ports, airports, sea ports, China, Belt and Road Initiative, greening infrastructure, carbon emissions, Pandora's Box effect, deforestatoon, deforestation, habitat fragmentation, poaching, illegal mining, land grabs, strategic land-use planning, SEAs, strategic environmental assessments, biodiversity hotspot, Important Bird Areas, Key Biodiversity Areas, Global 200 Ecoregions, corruption, governance, stranded assets, foreign debt, wilderness, threatened species, tigers, Saiga antelope, Giant Pandas
A Dangerous Year For Nature And Its Saviours
ConservationBill Laurancemurder, conservationists, mining, logging, agribusiness, poaching, Amazon, Brazil, Michel Temer, Dorothy Stang, protected areas, land-grabs, land grabs, environmental laws, Australia, Kevin Rudd, super-profits tax, tax-free status, environmental groups, Global Witness
PNG Forestry: weak governance & corruption hurts local people and the environment
Bill LauranceSABLs, SPABLs, Papua New Guinea, land grabs, Malaysia, Andrew Lang, World Biogenergy Association, 1996 Land Act, custormary land owners, timber exports, timber theft, oil palm, PNG
A plea to stop the land-grabbing in New Guinea
Bill LaurancePapua New Guinea, SABLs, Special Agricultural and Business Leases, land grabs, oil palm, Collingwood Bay, Lester Seri, illegal logging, traditional landowners, Oro Communities Environmental Advocacy Network, Rainforest Action Network
ALERT's campaign to defend Papua New Guinea's rainforests
Bill LaurancePapua New Guinea, SABLs, Special Agricultural and Business Leases, illegal logging, deforestation, Commission of Inquiry, corruption, land-grabs, land grabs, foreign logging corporations, Rimbunan Hijau, Indigenous peoples, World Parks Congress
