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
Should We Fear the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank?
Infrastructure Expansion, Editors PicksBill LauranceAIIB, Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, Transport Sector Strategy, roads, railways, ports, airports, sea ports, China, Belt and Road Initiative, greening infrastructure, carbon emissions, Pandora's Box effect, deforestatoon, deforestation, habitat fragmentation, poaching, illegal mining, land grabs, strategic land-use planning, SEAs, strategic environmental assessments, biodiversity hotspot, Important Bird Areas, Key Biodiversity Areas, Global 200 Ecoregions, corruption, governance, stranded assets, foreign debt, wilderness, threatened species, tigers, Saiga antelope, Giant Pandas
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
Brazil's Amazon Sellout Threatens Critical Indigenous Lands
PoliticsBill LauranceBrazil, indigenous groups, Michel Temer, corruption, ruralist, impeachment, Brazilian Congress, protected areas, forest roads, illegal land claims, land-theft, modern-day slavery, fires, illegal logging, illegal mining, G-7 Pilot Program for the Brazilian Amazon, rainfall recycling
Stopping Wildlife Crime - How Can I Help?
Most Popular, ConservationBill Laurancepoaching, wildlife crime, tigers, elephants, organized crime, environmental crimes, China, Vietnam, Singapore, Hong Kong, Amsterdam, Miami, corruption, snares, crippled animals, maimed animals, silent forests, empty forests, rhino horn, rhinos, pangolin, hornbill, shark, shark finning, organutan, gorilla, songbird, lizard, frog, poachers
Environmental Nightmare For The Amazon
RainforestsPhilip FearnsideAmazon, rainforest, Brazil, Michel Temer, deforestation, Ruralists, corruption, pork barrel, illegal land claims, land grabbing, land-thieves law, indigenous lands, protected areas, roads, highway, impeachment, economic crisis
Why Do We Support Dumb Development?
ConservationBill Laurancedevelopment projects, stranded assets, Dutch Disease, perverse incentives, corruption, oil palm, roads, tropical forests, deforestation, dumb development, Borneo, Malasyia, Nichola Abrams, Africa, Asia, Latin America, Oceania, highways, potholes, erosion, rainfall
Why Deforestation Is Exactly Like Cancer
ConservationBill Laurancedeforestation, cancer, contagious, contagion, poaching, hunting, roads, highways, developing nations, wilderness, protected areas, tumor, illegal roads, fire, wildfire, Amazon, monitoring, law enforcement, environmental regulations, corruption, silent forests, habitat fragmentation
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
Choking on smoke: The growing curse of Indonesia's wildfires
Bill LauranceIndonesia, fires, smoke, smog, air pollution, wildfires, Malaysia, Singapore, Asia Pulp & Paper, deforestation, oil palm, wood pulp, slash-and-burn, corruption, Sinar Mas, Godzilla, El Nino, drought, air quality, school closures, peatlands
China screams about arrest of its illegal loggers
Bill LauranceMyanmar, Burma, China, illegal logging, timber smuggling, corruption, raw logs, illegal wildlife trade, greenhouse gases, minerals
Protesters decry 'feeding frenzy' of African mining investors
Bill LauranceAfrica, mining, foreign investment, inflation, Dutch Disease, Mining on Top in Africa, The Gaia Foundation, London Mining Network, War on Want, Divest London, Global Justice Now, Stop Mad Mining, Hannibal Rhoades, protest, China, Chinese mining investments, environmental destruction, poaching, bribery, corruption, greenwashing, boom and bust
The corruption scandal engulfing Papua New Guinea
Malaysian 'eco-thug' tries to halt book exposing his crimes
Bill LauranceAdbul Taib, Sarawak, corruption, logging, oil palm, Borneo, environmental crimes, Money Logging, Gordon Brown, Lukas Straumann, Malaysia
ALERT's campaign to defend Papua New Guinea's rainforests
Bill LaurancePapua New Guinea, SABLs, Special Agricultural and Business Leases, illegal logging, deforestation, Commission of Inquiry, corruption, land-grabs, land grabs, foreign logging corporations, Rimbunan Hijau, Indigenous peoples, World Parks Congress
It's not just big corporations that are killing Indonesia's forests
Bill LauranceIndonesia, deforestation, smallholders, slash-and-burn farming, illegal logging, poaching, Joko Widodo, election promises, illegal mining, law enforcement, corruption, bribery, local investors, forest burning, big corporations, mega-corporations, oil palm, wood pulp, illegal colonization
'Blood gold': Illegal miners devastating rainforests
Bill LauranceIllegal gold mining, illegal mining, Blood gold, blood diamonds, blood ivory, Peru, Brazil, Kayapo Reserve, Indigenous peoples, Indonesia, Borneo, rainforest destruction, corruption, park invasions
Big risks for the world's biggest coal mine
Bill LauranceAdani, Carmichael Coal Mine, Queensland, Australia, carbon emissions, India, Mundra, Gujarat State, corruption, scandal, Campbell Newman, coal mining, global warming
African ecosystems assailed by foreign-funded mining boom
Bill LauranceAfrica, mining, mining boom, foreign investment, China, Australia, Brazil, Russia, India, Canada, corruption, environmental damage, African wildlife
Logging chaos in Papua New Guinea
