Posts tagged biodiversity
Biofuel Bomb is Decimating Nature
ConservationBill Laurancebiofuels, oil palm, Indonesia, Malaysia, European Union, E.U., biodiversity, deforestation, peat forest, peat fires, carbon emissions, New Guinea, Equatorial Africa, Latin America, Terengganu state, Peninsular Malaysia, Rainforest Foundation Norway, China, haze, air pollution, biodiesel
Dramatic Conservation Pledge by Papua, Indonesia
ConservationBill LaurancePapua, Papua Province, Indonesia, 83-percent pledge, New Guinea, Elia Loupatty, Project Papua, Pokja Papua, Joko Widodo, President Joko Widodo, Trans-Papuan Highway, roads, deforestation, Lorentz National Park, World Heritage site, Bill Laurance, William Laurance, habitat fragmentation, carbon emissions, Victoria Crowned Pigeon, cultural values, biodiversity
Sabah's 'Bridge to Hell' and other Scary Eco-News from Asia
Infrastructure ExpansionBill LauranceSoutheast Asia, biodiversity, Sabah, infrastructure, Lower Kinatatangan Wildlife Sanctuary, bridge, Bornean elephant, organutan, poaching, deforestation, Alice Hughes, primates, oil palm, rubber, paper pulp, woodpulp, ecotourism, undiscovered species, undiscovered biodiversity, karst, cement, China, wetlands, protected areas, overhunting, Mekong River, dams, pet trade, orangutan, Bridge to Hell, Borneo
Human Impacts on the Planet are Severe but Slowing Down
ConservationBill Lauranceglobal human footprint, agriculture, cities, population growth, food production, farming efficiency, yield gaps, land-use planning, deforestation, biodiversity, climate change, Oscar Venter, Bill Laurance, James Watson, roads, infrastructure, urban area, economic growth, developing nations, consumption, wilderness
Good News: Parks Work to Conserve Biodiversity
WildlifeJeremy Hanceparks, protected areas, Jeremy Hance, Claudia Gray, species richness, species abundance, vertebrates, invertebrates, plants, wildlife conservation, biodiversity, PREDICTS, endemic species, ecological niches, Convention on Biological Diversity
Crunch time for land clearing in Queensland
Infrastructure ExpansionBill LauranceQueensland, land clearing, deforestation, forests, woodlands, Martine Maron, greenhouse gases, carbon emissions, biodiversity, Koala, Great Barrier Reef
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
Conserving tropical forests could get us halfway to solving global warming
Climate ChangeBill LauranceBrett Byers, Rainforest Trust, Million Acre Pledge, Paris COP, COP 21, climate change, deforestation, selective logging, tropical forests, biodiversity, fossil fuels, carbon emissions, forest regeneration
Why We Simply Must Have Predators
ConservationJohn Terborghpredators, John Terborgh, rewilding, George Monbiot, biodiversity, eutrophication, fire regimes, exotic species, Lago Guri, islands, alternative states, wolves, bears, tigers, lions, ecological collapse, green world hypothesis, Hairston et al. 1960, harpy eagle, secondary compounds, plant diversity
Unconventional-gas mining: Are we grabbing a tiger by the tail?
Bill Lauranceunconventional gas, coal-seam gas, shale gas, tight gas, U.S. Energy Administration, global energy deposits, biodiversity, habitat fragmentation, precautionary principle, cumulative impacts, groundwater, hydrological impacts
The scariest things about climate change are what we don't know
Bill Lauranceclimate change, global warming, environmental impacts, biodiversity, environmental synergisms, William Laurance, scientific uncertainty, global circulation models, precipitation, rainfall, rainforests, Amazon, Borneo, fires, heat waves, high-elevation endemics, cool-adapted species, thermal specialists, climate change deniers, habitat fragmentation, logging
Protected areas do far better when governments work to make them succeed
Bill Lauranceprotected areas, nature reserves, national protection, IUCN categories I-IV, IUCN categories V-VI, Corey Bradshaw, William Laurance, Ian Craigie, poaching, illegal logging, illegal encroachment, biodiversity, extinctions, World Heritage sites
The next big environmental crisis: Indonesian New Guinea
Bill LauranceIndonesian New Guinea, Papua, West Papua, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, industrial logging, oil palm, mining, transmigration, Trans-Papuan Highway, Borneo, Sumatra, President Joko Widodo, biodiversity, deforestation
Could tropical species be intensively vulnerable to global warming?
Bill Lauranceglobal warming, species extinctions, local endemics, montane species, biodiversity, heat waves, flying foxes, white lemuroid possum, lizards, north Queensland, Mexico, Pierre-Michel Forget, thermal specialists, elevational specialists, Australian wet tropics
Why biodiversity is declining even as protected areas increase
Bill Lauranceprotected areas, biodiversity, biodiversity loss, extinction, habitat destruction, land sparing, land sharing, Ro Hill, infrastructure, G20 nations
Amazon update: 'Sustainable' corporation under fire, appears to plan huge increase in forest destruction
Bill LauranceUnited Cacao, Peruvian Amazon, Peru, deforestation, La Region newspaper, Cacao del Peru Norte, cacao, oil palm, biodiversity, Dennis Melka, forest clearing, climate change
The good and bad news about Brazil's soy moratorium
Bill LauranceAmazon, Brazil, Soy Moratorium, Cerrado, biodiversity, global warming, soy lobby, Forest Code, Holly Gibbs, deforestation, Amazon rainforest, China, Europe, soy exports, environmental boycotts
A new Armageddon for amphibians?
Bill Lauranceamphibians, frogs, toads, newts, salamanders, caecilians, exotic pathogens, novel diseases, foreign pathogens, introduced pathogens, chytrid fungus, Ranavirus, viruses, species extinction, biodiversity, aquatic ecosystems
Australia's shame: World Heritage sites in peril
Bill LauranceWet Tropics World Heritage Area, Wet Tropics of Queensland, Australia, Queensland government, Australian federal government, Tony Abbott, World Heritage, Great Barrier Reef, Virunga National Park, World Heritage Outlook Report, Salonga National Park, Tropical Rainforests Heritage of Sumatra, climate change, invasive species, infrastructure, urbanization, feral animals, Wet Tropics Management Authority, environmental impact assessments, cultural values, biodiversity
Climate change could threaten our beer
Bill LauranceClimate Peril, John J. Berger, beer, agriculture, global warming, heat waves, droughts, complex interrelationships, socioeconomic impacts, environmental impacts, biodiversity
