ALERT Blasts Indonesian Firm Pushing Ape-Killer Project RainforestsBill LauranceAugust 10, 2018Tapanuli Orangutan, Sumatra, North Sumatra, PT NSHE, North Sumatera Hydro Energy, Sinohydro, Bank of China, President Xi Jinpeng, China, Belt & Road Initiative, PR firm, public relations, toxic reputation, hydropower, poaching, logging, haze, mining, deforestation, The Conversation, The Christian Science Monitor, National Geographic Online, Mongabay, Avaaz, WALHI, crisis management, Joko Widodo, President Jokowi, International Finance Corporation, Asian Development Bank, Sumatran Tiger, habitat fragmentation, acid test, circular, Malaysia, North Sumatera, Xi Jinping Comments
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
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
Is China so Big it Only Listens to Itself? Infrastructure ExpansionBill LauranceFebruary 9, 2018China, One Belt One Road, Belt and Road Initiative, Polar Silk Road, 21st Century Silk Road, Chinese Academy of Sciences, big data, roads, infrastructure, extractive industries, mining, logging, Xi Jinping, public media, propaganda, Trump Administration Comments
Why Chop the Amazon Rainforest in Half? Infrastructure ExpansionBill LauranceJanuary 10, 2018Amazon, rainforest, road, BR-319, BR-174, Manaus, Porto Velho, habitat fragmentation, poaching, logging, fires, BR-163, Rio Negro Bridge, William Laurance, Philip Fearnside, land speculation, illegal mining Comments
New Danger: Invading Poachers Kill With Mega-Fires ConservationBill LauranceOctober 23, 2017fires, game species, Africa, Zimbabwe, local villages, frontier migration, social conflict, roads, logging, mining, industrial mines, traditional livelihoods, mega-fires, gold miners 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
A Dangerous Year For Nature And Its Saviours ConservationBill LauranceAugust 5, 2017murder, 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 WitnessComment
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
Europe’s Greatest Old-Growth Forest Faces the Axe ConservationBill LauranceJune 9, 2017old-growth forest, Belarus, Białowieża Forest, logging, spruce bark beetle, European bison, European lynx, Gray wolf, World Heritage sites, old trees, Malgorzata Blicharska, Richard Smithers, Polish Ministry of EnvironmentComment
The Mega-Banks Funding Forest Destruction in Southeast Asia RainforestsJeremy HanceNovember 12, 2016banks, lending institutions, deforestation, infrastructure, Forests and Finance, Malaysia Forest, MayBank, ABM Amro, Rainforest Action Network, TuK INDONESIA, Profundo, Malaysia, China, Japan, USA, UK, Indonesia, Australia, ANZ, JPMorgan Chase, HSBC, extinction crisis, World Bank, African Development Bank, Asian Development Bank, Inter-American Development Bank, AIIB, Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, BNDES, Brazilian Development Bank, roads, highways, coal-fired generating plant, Indigenous peoples, divestment, publicity, bad publicity, negative publicity, oil palm, logging, timber, paper pulp, rubber, forest-risk companiesComment
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
ALERT Joins Battle to Halt Nigeria's 'Highway to Hell' Infrastructure ExpansionBill LauranceSeptember 22, 2016Cross River Highway, Cross River Superhighway, Cross River National Park, Cross River Gorilla, Leopard, Bill Laurance, Thomas Lovejoy, Mahmoud Mahmoud, Nigeria, tropical rainforest, primates, deforestation, logging, poaching, habitat fragmentationComment
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
Demise of the World's Forest Giants ConservationBill LauranceJuly 12, 2016big trees, giant trees, big old trees, forest giants, deforestation, logging, drought, weeds, fires, habitat fragmentation, David Lindenmayer, William Laurance, Mountain Ash, Gamba Grass, Lantana, carbon storage, evapotranspiration, fruit, foliage, nectar, tree cavities Comment
Proposed Roads Imperil Desperately Needed Stronghold for Sumatran Tigers WildlifeBill LauranceMay 24, 2016Sumatran tiger, Kerinci Seblat National Park, Jambi Province, Sumatra, Roads, Sumatran rhino, poaching, logging, mining, farming, Fauna & Flora International, Mount Kerinci, Mount SinabungComment
Will new mega-banks force a 'race to the bottom' for the environment? PoliticsBill LauranceApril 4, 2016AIIB, Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, BNDES, Brazilian Development Bank, World Bank, Asian Development Bank, African Development Bank, Inter-American Development Bank, International Monetary Fund, international lenders, infrastructure, roads, dams, hydroelectric dams, mining, logging, deforestation, human rights, indigenous peoples, developing nations, China, India, Russia, OECD nationsComment
Poaching bloodbath continues in northern Sumatra, with new roads poised to open up last surviving forests Protected AreasBill LauranceMarch 28, 2016poaching, tigers, rhinos, elephants, orangutans, Leuser Ecosystem, Ladia Galaska Road Network, Sumatra, Indonesia, Aceh, deforestation, logging, Sumatran tiger, Aceh spatial planComment
$100 billion rip-off: Foreign loggers are massively defrauding Papua New Guinea RainforestsBill LauranceFebruary 20, 2016Papua New Guinea, logging, transfer pricing, tax avoidance, Rimbunan Hijau, China, timber exports, timber theft, RH, The National Newspaper, human development, economic development, The Oakland Institute, Rimbunan Hijau Watch PNG, The Great Timber Heist, deforestationComment
Indonesian Citizens Sue Government to Save Imperiled Rainforest RainforestsBill LauranceJanuary 24, 2016Leuser Ecosystem, Gunung Leuser National Park, Sumatra, Aceh, Indonesian Ministry of Home Affairs, Gerakan Rakyat Aceh Menggugat, Sumatran rhino, Asian elephant, Sumatran tiger, orangutan, deforestation, roads, logging, oil palm plantations, woodpulp, rainforest, William Laurance, Farwiza Farha, GeRaM, World HeritageComment
