Posts tagged Democratic Republic of Congo
The Global Battle to Protect Our Protected Areas
Protected AreasBill LaurancePADDD, protected areas, national parks, World Heritage Site, Michel Temer, Brazil, Amazon, RENCA, mining, PADDD Tracker, Selous Game Reserve, Tanzania, Cambodia, Virachey National Park, Bears Ears National Monument, Donald Trump, Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, marine parks, commercial fishing, Jeremy Hance, climate change, mass extinction, New Zealand, Democratic Republic of Congo
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 Vast Congo River to be Imperiled by the World's Biggest Dam
Infrastructure ExpansionAlice HughesInga Dam, Inga 3 Dam, Democratic Republic of Congo, Congo River, Congo Basin, roads, powerlines, hydroelectric dam, Transparency International, corruption, deforestation, environmental impact assessments, okapi, bonobo, Congo rainforest, Bundi Valley, aquatic wildlife, freshwater biodiversity, malaria
The World's Largest Primate Teeters on the Edge of Extinction
WildlifeBill Laurancegorilla, Grauer's Gorilla, Democratic Republic of Congo, Jefferson Hall, Andrew Plumtree, Stuart Nixon, Ghislain Vieilledent, critically endangered, poaching, Coltan, illegal mining, Congo Basin, mountain gorilla, civil war, war, park rangers, Punia Gorilla Reserve, Itombwe Natural Reserve, Kahuzi-Biega National Park, blood gold, blood diamonds, blood coltan
Endangered vultures being decimated as ivory poachers use poison to kill elephants
WildlifeBill Laurancevultures, The Peregrine Fund, Oryx, African savanna elephant, elephant, rhinoceros, Africa, Dancy Ogada, India, endangered species, diclofenac, poison, pesticides, Botswana, Democratic Republic of Congo, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe
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
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
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
Imperiled parks -- the 'new normal'?
Bill Laurancenational parks, protected areas, World Heritage site, Thailand, Democratic Republic of Congo, Brazil, Ecuador, New Zealand, Australia, Virunga National Park, Dong Phayayen-Khao Yai Forest Complex, IUCN, World Heritage Site in Danger
Illegal logging still a scourge for forests globally
Bill Lauranceillegal logging, illegal timber trade, stolen timber, Alan Oxley, Tony Abbott government, Australia, Indonesia, Peru, Democratic Republic of Congo, criminal activities, Anti Forest-Mafia Coalition, illegal logging bill, Rimbunan Hijau
Eco-crisis: Deadly assaults on park guards growing
