Will Fast-Tracked Projects Shatter Asia’s ‘Jewel of Nature’?
Protected AreasBill LauranceLeuser Ecosystem, Gunung Leuser National Park, Siti Nurbaya, Joko Widodo, Indonesia, Sumatra, orangutan, Sumatran rhino, Sumatran Elephant, Sumatran tiger, deforestation, mining, geothermal project, Irwandi Yusuf, Aceh, roads, powerlines, World Heritage in Danger, hydropower projects, habitat fragmentation, poaching, snares, flooding
Positive Signs: Environmental Progress in Indonesia
WildlifeBill LauranceIndonesia, Aceh, Leuser Ecosystem, President Joko Widodo, President Jokowi, Siti Nurbaya, Minister of Environment and Forestry, Papua, West Papua, New Guinea, Sumatra, peat, wildfires, haze, orangutan, tiger, rhinos, elephant, Irwandi, ForestHints.News, ANJT, oil palm plantations, mining concessions, oil palm concessions, woodpulp concessions, logging concessions, poaching, park encroachment
Perils for the Last Place Where Tigers, Orangutans, Elephants and Rhinos Survive in the Wild
ConservationBill LauranceLeuser Ecosystem, tiger, Sumatran Elephant, orangutan, Sumatran rhino, Aceh, Aceh spatial plan, geothermal project, hydroelectric projects, PT Hitay Panas Energy, PT Trinusa Energy Indonesia, Indonesia, Sumatra, World Heritage in Danger, GeRaM, Gerakan Rakyat Aceh Menggugat, Abu Kari, lawsuit, Kappi Region, Kluet River
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
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
Indonesian Citizens Sue Government to Save Imperiled Rainforest
RainforestsBill LauranceLeuser Ecosystem, Gunung Leuser National Park, Sumatra, Aceh, Indonesian Ministry of Home Affairs, Gerakan Rakyat Aceh Menggugat, Sumatran rhino, Asian elephant, Sumatran tiger, orangutan, deforestation, roads, logging, oil palm plantations, woodpulp, rainforest, William Laurance, Farwiza Farha, GeRaM, World Heritage
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
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
Big fine for illegal forest-clearing in Sumatra