New study: Half of all Amazon tree species are imperiled
Bill LauranceAmazon, tree species, protected areas, indigenous lands, deforestation, logging, tree diversity, rare species, Carlos Peres, Hans ter Steege, William Laurance, habitat fragmentation, Brazil, Brazilian Amazon, Venezuela, Bolivia, Colombia, Peru, Guianas, beef, soy, palm oil
The Indonesian Inferno: A Completely Preventable Crisis
Bill LauranceIndonesia, fires, haze, smoke, smog, school closures, airport closures, air pollution, carbon emissions, peatlands, peat fires, deforestation, Singapore, Malaysia, New Guinea, Sumatra, Borneo, Micronesia, President Joko Widodo, El Nino, drought, Erik Meijaard, fire ban, Brazil, remote sensing, Global Forest Watch, oil palm, Council of Palm Oil Producer Countries, zero deforestation
How well do community-managed lands promote nature conservation?
Bill Laurancecommunity-managed lands, nature conservation, protected areas, hunting, poaching, Amazon, Indonesia, Brazil, Papua New Guinea, traditional landowners, migration, frontier migration, transmigration, indigenous peoples, indigenous lands, gaur, tiger, clouded leopard, golden cat
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
Dramatic spike in Amazon deforestation
Bill LauranceBrazilian Amazon, deforestation, roads, railroad, Brazil, soy moratorium, protected areas, President Lula, Dorothy Stang, Philip Fearnside, illegal roads, cattle ranching, Brazilian exports
China to punch 5,000-kilometer railroad through the Amazon
Bill LauranceTrans-Amazon Railway, A, Amazon railway, Brazil, Peru, Brazilian Atlantic forest, Cerrado, iron ore, timber, soy, Exports to China, Li Keqiang, South America, Nicaragua Canal, Colombia, Peruvian Amazon, indigenous peoples
Rate of tropical rainforest destruction leaps by 62 percent
Bill Laurancetropical deforestation, tropical rainforests, deforestation, Democratic Republic of Congo, Brazil, Madagascar, Southeast Asia, Neotropics, African tropics, University of Maryland, Landsat, satellite monitoring, FAO, biodiversity loss, extinctions
The world's two most dangerous environmental trends
Bill LauranceBrazilian development bank, BNDES, AIIB, Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, infrastructure, G20, roads, mining, dams, hydroelectric dams, Brazil, China, World Bank, African Development Bank, Asian Development Bank, Inter-American Development Bank, environmental impacts, deforestation, climate change
The good and bad news about Brazil's soy moratorium
Bill LauranceAmazon, Brazil, Soy Moratorium, Cerrado, biodiversity, global warming, soy lobby, Forest Code, Holly Gibbs, deforestation, Amazon rainforest, China, Europe, soy exports, environmental boycotts
Bizarre story in the Washington Post
Bill LauranceNigeria, logging, rainforest, deforestation, Washington Post, Nicole Crowder, Watergate, Akintunde Akinleye, photographs, Brazil, Brazilian Amazon, forest fires, smoke, Matt Hansen, University of Maryland, Global Forest Watch, Mongabay.com
Neotropical rainforests under assault from infrastructure & mining
Bill LauranceNeotropical forests, rainforests, Interoceanic Canal, Nicaragua, Brazil, Amazon, Andes, mining, hydroelectric projects, hydroelectric dams, infrastructure, BNDES, IIRSA, China, Central America, South America, deforestation, roads, Tapajos River, ATBC, Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation
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
Export markets are driving much of tropical deforestation
Bill Lauranceagricultural commodities, soy, beef, timber, palm oil, tropical deforestation, Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Democratic Republic of Congo, Indonesia, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, export markets, globalization, Center for Global Development, greenhouse gas emissions, commodity exports, European Union, E.U., China
Dramatic erosion of world's last intact forests
Bill LauranceIntact Forest Landscapes, road building, logging, fires, forest conversion, agriculture, Russia, Canada, Brazil, Greenpeace, University of Maryland, Transparent World, World Resources Institute, WWF-Russia, Global Forest Watch
'Blood gold': Illegal miners devastating rainforests
Bill LauranceIllegal gold mining, illegal mining, Blood gold, blood diamonds, blood ivory, Peru, Brazil, Kayapo Reserve, Indigenous peoples, Indonesia, Borneo, rainforest destruction, corruption, park invasions
Explosion of illegal roads in the Amazon
Bill LauranceAmazon, roads, Brazil, deforestation, remote sensing, illegal roads, legal roads, logging, hunting, mining, ranchers, loggers, Brazilian Amazon
Indonesia now biggest 'forest killer'
Good news: Deforestation slowing in some countries
Bill Laurancedeforestation, REDD+, governance, law enforcement, payments for ecosystem services, empowering local communities, Brazil, Costa Rica, Mexico, Vietnam, Equatorial Africa, carbon emissions, moratoria, soy, beef, deforestation drivers, Guyana, Kenya, Madagascar
Rainforests imperiled by environmental 'one-two punch'
Bill Laurancehabitat fragmentation, carbon dioxide, atmospheric chemistry, environmental synergism, Amazon, Amazon rainforest, tropical rainforest, Biological Dynamics of Forest Fragments Project, trees, vines, Brazil, forest dynamics, climate change, global change
Brazil funds world's biggest reserve network
