ALERT's Biggest Conservation Stories of 2016
ConservationBill Lauranceextinction, species extinction, habitat loss, habitat destruction, habitat fragmentation, infrastructure, roads, dams, poaching, 2016, Africa, Southeast Asia, Indonesia, Leuser Ecosystem, Nigeria, development corridors, giraffe, Cheetah, Brazilian Amazon, Brazilian Forest Code, Amazon rainforest, Sumatra, geothermal project, hydroelectric dam, Congo, Congo megadams, Bangladesh, tigers, India waterways, wilderness, global human footprint, genetic diversity, China, illegal wildlife trade, overfishing, overhunting, land-use planning, Zero-deforestation agreement, ivory trade, rhino horn, orangutan, Elephant, mass extinction
Standing Tall for Imperiled Giraffes
WildlifeBill Laurancegiraffe, extinction, IUCN, Africa, savanna, molecular genetics, population growth, mining, China, development corridors, mining exports, poaching, WWF Living Planet Report, governance, land-use planning, protected areas
China's Rapacious Apetite for Timber Is Devastating West Africa's Woodlands
ConservationBill LauranceRosewood, Nigeria, Hazel Chapman, West Africa, savanna, Sahel, Pterocarpus erinaceus, illegal logging, China, illegal timber trade, deforestation
The Mega-Banks Funding Forest Destruction in Southeast Asia
RainforestsJeremy Hancebanks, lending institutions, deforestation, infrastructure, Forests and Finance, Malaysia Forest, MayBank, ABM Amro, Rainforest Action Network, TuK INDONESIA, Profundo, Malaysia, China, Japan, USA, UK, Indonesia, Australia, ANZ, JPMorgan Chase, HSBC, extinction crisis, World Bank, African Development Bank, Asian Development Bank, Inter-American Development Bank, AIIB, Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, BNDES, Brazilian Development Bank, roads, highways, coal-fired generating plant, Indigenous peoples, divestment, publicity, bad publicity, negative publicity, oil palm, logging, timber, paper pulp, rubber, forest-risk companies
Question: Which of These Primates Knows More About Climate Change?
Bill LauranceDonald Trump, climate change, global warming, Hilary Clinton, U.S. presidential election, China, Russia, greenhouse gases, coal, energy policy, environmental policy
Is Nature Conservation A Lost Cause?
ConservationBill LauranceBrazil, Cambodia, infrastructure, Tanzania, William Laurance, Amazon, highways, dams, illegal logging, elephants, Seima Protected Area, Serengeti Highway, no-deforestation pledges, corporations, Stephen Blake, poaching, oil palm, woodpulp, Michelin, Aceh, Leuser Ecosystem, Amazon dams, Africa, development corridors, commodity prices, China, Brazilian Congres, Lacey Act, FLEGT, Australian Illegal Logging Bill, Chatham House, Cameroon, Indonesia, conservation victories
Will new mega-banks force a 'race to the bottom' for the environment?
PoliticsBill LauranceAIIB, Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, BNDES, Brazilian Development Bank, World Bank, Asian Development Bank, African Development Bank, Inter-American Development Bank, International Monetary Fund, international lenders, infrastructure, roads, dams, hydroelectric dams, mining, logging, deforestation, human rights, indigenous peoples, developing nations, China, India, Russia, OECD nations
$100 billion rip-off: Foreign loggers are massively defrauding Papua New Guinea
RainforestsBill LaurancePapua New Guinea, logging, transfer pricing, tax avoidance, Rimbunan Hijau, China, timber exports, timber theft, RH, The National Newspaper, human development, economic development, The Oakland Institute, Rimbunan Hijau Watch PNG, The Great Timber Heist, deforestation
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
The global collapse of the great animal migrations
Bill Laurancemigration, migratory species, buffalo, elephants, gaur, Indochina, Cambodia, Borneo, sun bear, bearded pig, shorebirds, China, Korea, Mohave Desert, bighorn sheep, Serengeti, wildebeest, David Wilcove, habitat fragmentation, hunting
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
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
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
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
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
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
