Australian government favors coal mines over environmental protection
Bill LauranceCarmichael Coal Mine, Adani Group, Tony Abbott, Tony Abbott government, Greg Hunt, EPBC, Environmental Protetion and Biodiversity Conservation Act, coal, coal mining, Mackay Conservation Group, Queensland, greenhouse gases, global warming
Pangolins in peril: The most heavily hunted animals on Earth?
Alice Hughespangolin, China, Vietnam, Hong Kong, illegal wildlife trade, overhunting, Alice Hughes, Africa, Asia, traditional medicines, Pholidota
Unconventional-gas mining: Are we grabbing a tiger by the tail?
Bill Lauranceunconventional gas, coal-seam gas, shale gas, tight gas, U.S. Energy Administration, global energy deposits, biodiversity, habitat fragmentation, precautionary principle, cumulative impacts, groundwater, hydrological impacts
Fears about continued large-scale land clearing in Queensland, Australia
Bill LauranceQueensland, land clearing, deforestation, habitat protection, regrowth, riparian forest, habitat fragmentation, Australia, Martine Marone, University of Queensland, panic clearing
Not just rhinos: Hornbill horns fetch stunning prices in illegal wildlife trade
Bill Laurancehelmeted hornbill, hornbill, Southeast Asia, illegal wildlife trade, China, casique, poaching, ivory, rhino horn, Kalimantan, Borneo, illegal hunting, CITES, Gunung Leuser National Park
Illegal logging explodes in West Africa -- Chinese implicated
Pierre-Michel ForgetSenegal, illegal logging, West Africa, China, timber smuggling, Myanmar, Burma, Haidar El Ali, Pierre-Michel Forget, Macky Sall, U.N. Climate Conference
Nineteen rangers killed trying to save forest elephants
Bill Laurancepark ranger, park rangers, Virunga National Park, Garamba National Park, Democratic Republic of Congo, Africa, Equatorial Africa, ivory, illegal hunting, poaching, China, Thailand, Vietnam, Laos, forest elephant, illegal wildlife trade
Growing concerns over 'Lawless Laos' -- paradise for poachers & smugglers
Bill LauranceLao, illegal wildlife trade, ivory, smuggling, China, endangered species, CITES, Europol, Vietnam, anti-trafficking regulations
The scariest things about climate change are what we don't know
Bill Lauranceclimate change, global warming, environmental impacts, biodiversity, environmental synergisms, William Laurance, scientific uncertainty, global circulation models, precipitation, rainfall, rainforests, Amazon, Borneo, fires, heat waves, high-elevation endemics, cool-adapted species, thermal specialists, climate change deniers, habitat fragmentation, logging
China screams about arrest of its illegal loggers
Bill LauranceMyanmar, Burma, China, illegal logging, timber smuggling, corruption, raw logs, illegal wildlife trade, greenhouse gases, minerals
Growing blight on the Amazon rainforest
Bill Laurancegold mining, illegal gold mining, Amazon, Brazil, Peru, French Guiana, Guyana, Suriname, indigenous peoples, Amerindians, protected areas, parks, AIDS, malaria, poaching, mercury pollution, sedimentation, aquatic wildlife, Yanomami, Kayapo, artisanal mining, Greg Asner, indigenous reserves
The new land-use tsunami imperiling the tropics
Bill Laurancerubber, rubber plantations, rubber tsunami, China, Cambodia, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia, Indonesia, Laos, Southeast Asia, land-use change, drivers of deforestation, marginal areas, Eleanor Warren-Thomas, Antje Ahrends, natural rubber, drought, frost, typhoons, habitat destruction
The global villains and heroes of tropical forest destruction
Bill LauranceForest 500, Global Canopy Programme, deforestation, corporations, governments, investors, tropical forests, rainforests, financial institutions, banks, hedge funds, private corporations, public corporations, China, Russia
Mysterious black leopards finally reveal their spots
Bill Lauranceblack leopard, leopard, Malaysia, Peninsular Malaysia, leopard spots, automatic cameras, infrared flash, Gopalasamy Reuben Clements, Laurie Hedges, William Laurance, melanism, poaching, illegal wildlife trade, wire snares, James Cook University, University of Nottingham-Malaysia
New technologies allow real-time monitoring of rampant forest destruction
Bill LauranceMAAP, Peru, Matt Finer, Amazon Conservation Association, Global Forest Watch, Terra-i, CLASlite, Landsat, Madre de Dios, Tambopata National Reserve, cacao, oil palm, illegal gold mining, satellite monitoring, Sierra del Divisor National Park
Want clean water? Save your forests!
Bill Laurancewater quality, water purification, forests, Malaysia, Jeffrey Vincent, evapotranspiration, deforestation, flooding, water pollution, cloud formation, global warming, greenhouse gases, protected areas, forest conservation, urban water supplies
Protesters decry 'feeding frenzy' of African mining investors
Bill LauranceAfrica, mining, foreign investment, inflation, Dutch Disease, Mining on Top in Africa, The Gaia Foundation, London Mining Network, War on Want, Divest London, Global Justice Now, Stop Mad Mining, Hannibal Rhoades, protest, China, Chinese mining investments, environmental destruction, poaching, bribery, corruption, greenwashing, boom and bust
The corruption scandal engulfing Papua New Guinea
Protected areas do far better when governments work to make them succeed
Bill Lauranceprotected 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 sites
Is China finally cracking down on its deadly trade in illegal ivory?
Bill LauranceChina, ivory, illegal ivory, illegal ivory trade, smuggling, ivory traders, elephant slaughter, African elephant, Asian elephant, Forest elephant, ivory prices, ivory smuggling, ivory imports
