The next big environmental crisis: Indonesian New Guinea
Bill LauranceIndonesian New Guinea, Papua, West Papua, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, industrial logging, oil palm, mining, transmigration, Trans-Papuan Highway, Borneo, Sumatra, President Joko Widodo, biodiversity, deforestation
Disaster ahead for Sumatra's forests?
Bill LauranceSumatra, Leuser Ecosystem, Aceh, Aceh spatial plan, deforestation, Indonesia, Erik Meijaard, logging, mining, roads, tigers, orangutans, ele, rhinos, flooding, Aceh government
ALERT urges Indonesian president to protect imperiled forest
Bill LauranceLeuser Ecosystem, Indonesia, President SBY, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, Sumatra, Aceh, Aceh spatial plan, deforestation, UN Climate Summit, HAkA
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
Using old smart-phones to fight eco-crimes
Bill LauranceRainforest Connection, Smart phones, Cameroon, Zoological Society of London, Sumatra, illegal logging, gold mining, poaching, illegal hunting, illegal wildlife trade, forest monitoring
Mega-corporation still destroying forests, despite green pledge
Bill LauranceAPRIL, Sumatra, Indonesia, paper pulp, deforestation, forest clearing, rainforest, biodiversity, no-deforestation pledge, no deforestation, Foreign Correspondent, Bill Laurance, Greenpeace
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
Take a minute to help save Sumatra's last rainforest
Bill LauranceLeuser Ecosystem, Aceh, Indonesia, Sumatra, orangutan, tiger, elephant, rhinoceros, deforestation, Ladia Galaska Road Network, lowland rainforest
Should conservationists resort to bribery?
The plight of primates... 9000 killed for one bushmeat market
Bill Lauranceprimates, deforestation, Indonesia, Ivory Coast, Cote d'Ivoire, poaching, overhunting, pet trade, monkeys, orangutan, Leuser Ecosystem, Sumatra, rhinoceros, elephant, tiger, overpopulation, hunting, bushmeat
Fire alert: Could 2014 be 'the year from hell'?
Bill Laurancefires, wildfires, ENSO, El Nino, drought, forest fires, Southeast Asia, Indonesia, Amazon, Sumatra, Borneo, climatology, respiratory distress, asthma, smoke, smog
Indonesian politician gets 14 years for illegal logging permits
Bill Lauranceillegal logging, deforestation, woodpulp, oil palm, Indonesia, Sumatra, Riau Province, APP, APRIL, Rusli Zainai, corruption, bribery, 'no deforestation' pledge
Is 'killer smog' returning to Southeast Asia?
Bill Lauranceforest fires, burning, smog, smoke, air pollution, Indonesia, Sumatra, Riau Province, slash-and-burn, illegal fires, Malaysia, Singapore
Big fine for illegal forest-clearing in Sumatra
ALERT supports online petition for Leuser Ecosystem
Conservation, Editors PicksEllen FieldSumatra, Leuser Ecosystem, World Heritage, elephant, orangutan, tiger, rhinoceros, rainforest, ALERT
ALERT's first issue: The last lowland forest in Sumatra
RainforestsBill LauranceLeuser Ecosystem, Sumatra, rainforest, tiger, rhinoceros, orangutan, elephant, deforestation, Indonesia, oil palm
