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
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
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
Should Rhinos Be Introduced To Australia? WildlifeBill LauranceJuly 5, 2018rhino, rhinoceros, black rhino, white rhino, Sumatran rhino, Javan rhino, Indian one-horned rhino, habitat fragmentation, habitat destruction, poaching, rhino horn, endangered species, Vietnam, China, Africa, Asia, megafauna, Sumatra, Java, roads, captive breeding, Australia, savannas, rule of law, eco-tourism, cattle ranching, cattle stations, crazy idea, exotic plant species Comments
Should We Fear the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank? Infrastructure Expansion, Editors PicksBill LauranceJune 24, 2018AIIB, 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 Comments
Asia’s Environmental ‘Eden’ in Crisis RainforestsBill LauranceJune 14, 2018Leuser Ecosystem, Sumatra, Indonesia, habitat fragmentation, roads, highway of death, orangutan, tiger, elephant, rhinoceros, illegal roads, Aceh government, Aceh Spatial Plan, Irwandi Yusuf, Sean Sloan, deforestation, poaching, oil palm, hydropower projects, geothermal project, power line Comments
China's Belt & Road is "Environmentally Riskiest Venture Ever" Infrastructure ExpansionBill LauranceMay 23, 2018Belt and Road Initiative, One Belt One Road, China, infrastructure, roads, Bill Laurance, Asia, Africa, Asia-Pacific region, Europe, habitat destruction, habitat fragmentation, railroads, ports, extractive industries, global warming, fossil fuels, poaching, extinction, protected areas Comment
Will China Wipe Out the World’s Rarest Ape? ConservationBill LauranceMay 4, 2018Tapanuli Orangutan, China, hydropower, dam, Sumatra, Indonesia, habitat fragmentation, roads, powerlines, One Belt One Road, Belt and Road Initiative, infrastructure, railroads, ports, energy projects, endangered primates, great apes, Sinohydro, Bank of China Comments
Fatal Fences Are Decimating Nature WildlifeBill LauranceApril 3, 2018fence, Great Rabbit Fence, habitat fragmentation, migration, wildebeest, hartebeest, zebra, emu, viable populations, connectivity, climate change, gene flow, genetic diversity, random demographic events, roads, Penny van Oosterzee, cattle ranching, lions, cheetah, hyena, African wild dogs, Botswana, global human footprint, Convention on Biological Diversity, IPBES, Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services, Connectivity Conservation Specialist Group, flying fox, barn owl Comments
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
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
Turbulent Times in the Amazon PoliticsBill LauranceJanuary 20, 2018Amazon, deforestation, roads, Peru, Yaguas National Park, dams, hydropower, Michel Temer, John Terborgh, Philip Fearnside, BR-319, Manaus-Porto Velho Highway, Iquitos-Saramirizia Highway, Sentinel satellite, Beni Province, Bolivia, China railwayComment
Damming the Tropics Will not Work RainforestsBill LauranceNovember 28, 2017dam, hydropower projects, hydroelectric dams, methane, carbon dioxide, greenhouse gases, deforestation, roads, fisheries, green energy, Philip Fearnside, William Laurance, Tapajos River, Mekong River, Belo Monte Dam, Inga Dam, solar energy, wind energy, economic risks 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
Mining Madness In The Amazon Infrastructure ExpansionBill LauranceSeptember 26, 2017Ecuador, mining, industrial mining, illegal gold mining, Michel Temer, John Seed, Philip Fearnside, Protected Forests, Bosques Protectores, mining concessions, PADDD, endemic birds, Andes, RENCA, roads, deforestation, garampeiros, illegal roads, Ruralist Comments
Environmental Nightmare For The Amazon RainforestsPhilip FearnsideAugust 22, 2017Amazon, rainforest, Brazil, Michel Temer, deforestation, Ruralists, corruption, pork barrel, illegal land claims, land grabbing, land-thieves law, indigenous lands, protected areas, roads, highway, impeachment, economic crisisComment
Why Do We Support Dumb Development? ConservationBill LauranceJuly 10, 2017development projects, stranded assets, Dutch Disease, perverse incentives, corruption, oil palm, roads, tropical forests, deforestation, dumb development, Borneo, Malasyia, Nichola Abrams, Africa, Asia, Latin America, Oceania, highways, potholes, erosion, rainfallComment
How Roads Can Cause Economic and Social Meltdown Infrastructure ExpansionBill LauranceJune 3, 2017roads, highways, infrastructure, deforestation, carbon emissions, poaching, wildlife, wildfires, Pandora's Box, video, land-use planning, economic benefits, social stability, social benefits, jobs, politics, development policyComment
Road Rage: The Real Reason Roads Are So Dangerous Infrastructure ExpansionBill LauranceMay 25, 2017roads, highways, infrastructure, Asia, Africa, Amazon, poaching, deforestation, land-use planning, land-use change, climate change, global warming, James Cook University, TESS, ALERT, developing countries, developing nationsComment
