New Hope for the Last Home for Tigers, Orangutans, Rhinos and Elephants
WildlifeBill LauranceLeuser Ecosystem, Indonesia, Sumatra, orangutan, tiger, elephant, rhinoceros, President Joko Widodo, Siti Nurbaya, Greenomics, Sumatran Orangutan Conservation Program, Ian Singleton, Leonardo DiCaprio, oil palm, mining, rice, oil palm moratorium, mining moratorium, Aceh, Muzakir Manaf
Poaching bloodbath continues in northern Sumatra, with new roads poised to open up last surviving forests
Protected AreasBill Laurancepoaching, tigers, rhinos, elephants, orangutans, Leuser Ecosystem, Ladia Galaska Road Network, Sumatra, Indonesia, Aceh, deforestation, logging, Sumatran tiger, Aceh spatial plan
Key Trends to Watch: Perils and Promise for Rainforests in 2016
RainforestsBill Laurancerainforest, 2016, deforestation, carbon emissions, commodity prices, timber, oil palm, soy, beef, oil, mining, minerals, China, roads, infrastructure, Africa, El Nino, drought, Godzilla, Indonesia, haze, peat fires, peatland, Southeast Asia, Brazil, recession, exports, hydroelectric dams, Amazon, Mata Atlantica, Atlantic forests, President Dilma, Zero-deforestation agreement, no-deforestation pledge, wood pulp, land-use planning, Malaysia, Paris COP, REDD, REDD+, global warming, climate change, biodiversity, scientific uncertainty
ALERT's three most important conservation trends in 2015
ConservationBill LauranceALERT, El Nino, infrastructure, roads, deforestation, poaching, illegal mining, no-deforestation pledges, Indonesia, Brazil, wildfires, 2015, haze, Southeast Asia, Sumatra, Cambodia, India, Amazon, Sub-Saharan Africa, peatland, forest fires, Daintree Drought Experiment, power lines, gas lines, G20 nations, BNDES, AIIB, New York Times, New Scientist, West Africa, migratory species, RoadLess, E.C. Joint Research Center, Godzilla
Help us save the last place on Earth where Orangutans, Tigers and Elephants live together
ConservationBill LauranceLeuser Ecosystem, Indonesia, Sumatra, orangutan, tiger, elephant, rhinoceros, oil palm, deforestation, rainforest, biodiversity hotspot, Racing Extinction
As Indonesia burns, its government moves to increase forest destruction
RainforestsBill LauranceIndonesia, Malaysia, Council of Palm Oil Producer Countries, Council of Palm Oil Producing Countries, oil palm, deforestation, fires, El Nino, drought, no-deforestation pledges, press release, respiratory distress, haze, air pollution, carbon emissions, peat forest, peatland, Bill Laurance, William Laurance, Thomas Lovejoy, Lian Pin Koh, Global Forest Watch, Greenpeace
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
Choking on smoke: The growing curse of Indonesia's wildfires
Bill LauranceIndonesia, fires, smoke, smog, air pollution, wildfires, Malaysia, Singapore, Asia Pulp & Paper, deforestation, oil palm, wood pulp, slash-and-burn, corruption, Sinar Mas, Godzilla, El Nino, drought, air quality, school closures, peatlands
Selling Noah's Ark? The collapse of Asia's bird biodiversity
Alice Hughesbirds, Indonesia, wildlife trade, illegal wildlife trade, TRAFFIC, endangered species, Alice Hughes, Asian biodiversity, wildlife markets, Jakarta, Songbird Crisis Summit
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
Will 'Godzilla' mega-drought cause global crisis?
Bill Laurancedrought, El Nino, wildfires, Susan Laurance, William Laurance, Daintree Drought Experiment, Amazon, Borneo, Papua New Guinea, New Guinea, Indonesia, Australia, rainforests, habitat fragmentation, logging, rainfall deficits, mega-drought, Godzilla, NASA
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 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
Roads to ruin: Southeast Asia's most environmentally destructive highways
Bill Lauranceroads, highways, deforestation, hunting, poaching, illegal logging, illegal mining, Southeast Asia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand, Myanmar, Gopalasamy Reuben Clements, endangered mammals, endangered species, wilderness, endemic species, Philippines, roads to ruin
Football fields of deforestation: What does it mean?
Bill Laurancedeforestation, deforestation rates, football fields, Indonesia, soccer, American football, educating the public, Erik Meijaard, metric units, forest destruction
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
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
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
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
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
