Posts tagged Sub-Saharan Africa
The world's forests will collapse if we don't learn to say 'no'
Infrastructure ExpansionBill Lauranceinfrastructure, roads, dams, power lines, gas lines, wilderness, core forest, Philip Fearnside, William Laurance, Amazon, Congo, Mekong River, Eneas Salati, Sub-Saharan Africa
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
Africa's Greatest Environmental Challenge -- Ever
ConservationBill LauranceAfrica, Sub-Saharan Africa, development corridors, African Development Bank, mining, agriculture, food security, population growth, Current Biology, roads, railroads, energy infrastructure, power lines, gas lines, colonization, poaching, hunting, deforestation, infrastructure, wildlife, elephant, fires
Study: Global urban footprint will triple by 2030
Bill LauranceKaren Seto, urban expansion, habitat loss, urban sprawl, overpopulation, biodiversity hotspots, South Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa, population growth, urban area, Eastern Afromontane hotspot, Guinean Forests of West Africa hotspot, Western Ghats, Sri Lanka, urbanization, China, Turkey, Mexico
