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
Amazon update: 'Sustainable' corporation under fire, appears to plan huge increase in forest destruction
Bill LauranceUnited Cacao, Peruvian Amazon, Peru, deforestation, La Region newspaper, Cacao del Peru Norte, cacao, oil palm, biodiversity, Dennis Melka, forest clearing, climate change
Malaysian 'eco-thug' tries to halt book exposing his crimes
Bill LauranceAdbul Taib, Sarawak, corruption, logging, oil palm, Borneo, environmental crimes, Money Logging, Gordon Brown, Lukas Straumann, Malaysia
Turn up the heat on McDonald's for killing orangutans
Real hope for the world's rainforests
Bill Laurancedeforestation, rainforests, illegal activities, no-deforestation pledge, zero deforestation, satellite monitoring, drones, automatic cameras, DNA technologies, real-time monitoring, oil palm, soy, beef, wood pulp, Brazil, Amazon, Rhett Butler, Mongabay
Ten ways you can help stop the sixth mass extinction
Bill Laurancebiodiversity crisis, sixth mass extinction, mass extinction, species extinction, Anthony Barnosky, global warming, deforestation, overfishing, overpopulation, habitat loss, political leadership, eat less meat, palm oil, oil palm, carbon footprint, Huffington Post
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
Will new supercrops feed the world and help save nature?
Bill Laurancesupercrops, oil palm, palm oil, land sparing, deforestation, tropical forests, land-use planning, land zoning, agriculture, biofuels, global food demand, food security, tropical rainforests
It's not just big corporations that are killing Indonesia's forests
Bill LauranceIndonesia, deforestation, smallholders, slash-and-burn farming, illegal logging, poaching, Joko Widodo, election promises, illegal mining, law enforcement, corruption, bribery, local investors, forest burning, big corporations, mega-corporations, oil palm, wood pulp, illegal colonization
Palm oil chief grossly distorts facts about deforestation
Bill LauranceMalaysian Palm Oil Council, MPOC, Yusof Basiron, oil palm, palm oil, deforestation, Sarawak, Malaysia, Borneo, orangutans, Sumatra, forest conversion
Indonesia plans to destroy another 14 million hectares of forest
Bill LauranceIndonesia, moratorium, REDD pact, Norway, 14 million hectares, logged forest, industrial plantations, pulpwood, oil palm, deforestation, Sumatra, Borneo
In smoke-choked Asia, fires beget more fires
Bill Laurancesmoke, air pollution, Sumatra, Southeast Asia, Singapore, David Gaveau, June 2013 fires, slash-and-burn, oil palm, pulpwood plantations, smog, fire dynamics, drought, forest fires
Company to spend $12 million felling Papua's rainforests
Bill LauranceWilmar, oil palm, palm oil, deforestation, Papua, Indonesia, ANJT, no-deforestation pledge, New Guinea, Indonesian Papua, forest clearing
Megadiversity in peril?
Gopalasamy Reuben ClementsPeninsular Malaysia, Malaysia, Rimba, Gopalasamy Reuben Clements, Sheema Aziz, tiger, elephant, deforestation, oil palm, logging, hunting
Eco-crisis: The devastation of Borneo's forests
Bill LauranceBorneo, Indonesia, Malaysia, Brunei, deforestation, industrial logging, selective logging, slash-and-burn, oil palm plantations, oil palm, pulpwood plantations, biodiversity, biodiversity hotspot, forest clearing
Will an avalanche of private money help or hurt Africa?
Bill LauranceAfrica, private investment, Bruce Wrobel, Herakles Farms, Cameroon, Christiane Badgley, Joshua Linder, biodiversity hotspot, oil palm, Foreign Policy Magazine, mining, infrastructure
Indonesia now biggest 'forest killer'
Why are Indonesia's forests so imperiled?
Bill LauranceIndonesia, deforestation, logging concessions, industrial concessions, oil palm, pulpwood plantations, industrial fiber plantations, APRIL, APP, Asia Pulp & Paper, Sumatra, Borneo, Kalimantan, Indonesian Borneo, Papua, Lian Pin Koh
We must save logged tropical forests
Bill Laurancetropical forests, logging, selective logging, biodiversity, ecosystem services, forest conversion, oil palm, slash-and-burn, conversion, logged forests
Why local people don't like deforestation
Bill Laurancemicroclimate, deforestation, heat, temperature, Borneo, Kalimantan, Erik Meijaard, Climatic Change, local residents, quality of life, mosquitoes, farming, oil palm
