ALERT Blasts Into The Twitter-Verse
ConservationBill LauranceTwitter, tweet, ALERT videos, rainfall, roads, Malaysia, China, infrastructure, foreign debt, corruption, Australia, Liberal Party, energy security, renewable energy, Amerindians, Amazon, illegal logging, murder, hydropower, Indonesia, PT NSHE, Bhutan, Gross National Happiness, Gross National Product, Tapanuli Orangutan, Africa, oil palm, gorilla, Leuser Ecosystem, Nestle, Mars, Unilever, Borneo, Sumatra
Right-Wingers Humiliate Australia & Hammer the Earth
PoliticsBill LauranceAustralia, Liberal Party, Tony Abbott, Malcolm Turnbull, Prime Minister, Scott Morrison, Peter Dutton, political conservative, right-wing, far-right conservative, climate policy, carbon tax, carbon emissions scheme, fossil fuels, coal, global warming, climate change, political instability, Donald Trump, USA, Indonesia, New Guinea, Great Barrier Reef, Tim Flannery, broadscale land clearing, Queensland, heat wave, drought, runoff, mangroves, mining lobby
Could Feminism Save the Earth?
Conservation, Most PopularBill Laurancefeminism, Let Girls Learn, population growth, overpopulation, developing nations, demographic transition, immigration, Africa, Middle East, South Asia, Western Europe, North America, Australia, fecundity, generation time, women's rights, social stability, social conflict, education, reproductive rights, career, family size, family planning, divorce, radicalization, Michelle Obama, environmental pressure, environmental destruction, global warming, Caribbean
Should Rhinos Be Introduced To Australia?
WildlifeBill Laurancerhino, rhinoceros, black rhino, white rhino, Sumatran rhino, Javan rhino, Indian one-horned rhino, habitat fragmentation, habitat destruction, poaching, rhino horn, endangered species, Vietnam, China, Africa, Asia, megafauna, Sumatra, Java, roads, captive breeding, Australia, savannas, rule of law, eco-tourism, cattle ranching, cattle stations, crazy idea, exotic plant species
Investors Beware: Infrastructure Projects Are Collapsing
Infrastructure ExpansionBill LauranceChina, Belt and Road Initiative, One Belt One Road, high-speed railway, Kuala Lumpur, Singapore, investors, infrastructure, railway, road, hydropower, dam, hydroelectric dam, PNG-LNG, Papua New Guinea - Liquid Natural Gas Project, Papua New Guinea, natural gas, tax avoidance, ExxonMobil, social violence, Amazon, Brazilian Amazon, deforestation, poaching, illegal mining, Michel Temer, President Lula, Brazil, corruption, bribery, risk-reward tradeoff, transparency, developing nations, Australia, Darwin Harbor, Darwin Port, Exim, Chinese Export-Import Bank, Xi Jinping
Australia Tries to Slow 'Deforestation Catastrophe'
ConservationBill LauranceQueensland, land clearing, deforestation, Australia, Queensland government, Koala, global deforestation hotspots, WWF-Australia, loopholes, regrowth, Land Restoration Fund
A Dangerous Year For Nature And Its Saviours
ConservationBill Laurancemurder, conservationists, mining, logging, agribusiness, poaching, Amazon, Brazil, Michel Temer, Dorothy Stang, protected areas, land-grabs, land grabs, environmental laws, Australia, Kevin Rudd, super-profits tax, tax-free status, environmental groups, Global Witness
Biodiversity In Queensland Is Being Bulldozed to Oblivion
WildlifeBill LauranceQueensland, land clearing, deforestation, bulldozers, Australia, koala, cassowary, Black-throated Finch, invasive species, climate change, woodland, forest, endangered species, Cape York Peninsula, illegal land clearing, Emissions Reduction Fund, 20 Million Trees, Reef Rescue
Vietnam's Logging Scandal: Time for An International Boycott?
ConservationJeremy HanceVietnam, timber, timber exports, illegal logging, Cambodia, Jeremy Hance, European Union, U.S.A., Australia, Environmental Investigation Agency, elephant, sun bear, Asian black bear, clouded leopard, golden cat, Sunda pangolin, Virachey National Park, poaching, drug traffickers, murder, FLEGT, proboscis monkey, timber smuggling
Australian Wins Egg-Frying Contest For Trump
PoliticsBill LauranceDonald Trump, President Trump, Donald J. Trump, global warming, climate change, Australia, South Australia, Corey Bradshaw, Bill Laurance, William Laurance, egg-frying contest, ALERT, Alliance of Leading Environmental Researchers & Thinkers, heat wave, eggsplain, carbon emissions, Chinese hoax, goanna, monitor lizard, goanna's gonads, ConservationBytes, White House
Habitat Loss Puts Half the World's Ecosystems at Risk
Protected AreasBill Lauranceecoregions, habitat loss, crisis ecoregion, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, Democratic Republic of Congo, Angola, Madagascar, Australia, USA, Canada, protected areas, mangrove forests, subtropical forests, tundra, Convention on Biological Diversity
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
Australia: To Save Your Ecology, Bring Back the Dingo
WildlifeJohn Terborghdingo, dingoes, feral cats, red foxes, predator control, dingo fence, John Terborgh, overgrazing, cane toads, fire, burning, cattle, mammal extinctions, Australia, Diprotodon, Thylacine, Red Kangaroos, Megalania, Thylacoleo, marsupial lion, marsupial wolf, quoll, marsupial cat, Aboriginals, Tasmanian Devil, rewilding, landscape of fear, predation, northern savannas, Australian Wildlife Conservancy
Scientists Unite Against Accelerated Habitat Loss in Australia
ConservationBill Laurancea, Australia, Queensland, New South Wales, deforestation, bushland clearing, habitat loss, deforestation hotspot, climate change, threatened species, Martine Maron, squirrel glider, Koala, glossy black-cockatoo, red goshawk, Society for Conservation Biology, Ecological Society of Australia, Royal Zoological Society of NSW, Australian Wildlife Management Society, woodland loss, habitat restoration
Famed biologist Asks: Is Australia a Continent or just a Continent-sized Island?
ConservationBill LauranceJohn Terborgh, Australia, Gondwanaland, Thylacine, canids, felids, raptors, honeyeaters, thornbills, islands, continents, top predators, faunal assemblage, competition, kangaroo, wombat, marsupial lion, monitor lizard, wallaroos, kangaroos, koala, drought, fairly wren, babblers, cooperative breeding, scrub birds, cockatoo, Charles Darwin, endemic species
Could this little bird halt one of the world's biggest mining projects?
Infrastructure ExpansionBill LauranceCarmichael Coal Mine, Adani, Adani Group, Black-throated Finch, Galilee Basin, Queensland, coal mining, habitat loss, extinction, Australia, open-pit coal mine, biodiversity offsets, Eric Vanderduys, April Reside
Killing Koalas and Poisoning Prairies
Bill LauranceCorey Bradshaw, Paul Ehrlich, Killing the Koala and Poisoning the Prairie, University of Chicago Press, ConservationBytes, The Population Bomb, USA, Australia, climate change, habitat loss, pollution, politics
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
Fears about continued large-scale land clearing in Queensland, Australia
Bill LauranceQueensland, land clearing, deforestation, habitat protection, regrowth, riparian forest, habitat fragmentation, Australia, Martine Marone, University of Queensland, panic clearing
Globally, governments are cracking down on environmental groups
Bill Lauranceenvironmental groups, green groups, The Conversation, Susan Laurance, Bill Laurance, Cambodia, China, Lao, India, anti-environmental fervor, environmental boycotts, gag clauses, Australia, illegal logging, political conservatives, industry mouthpieces, global warming
