Mind-Blowing Videos on Urgent Eco-Dramas
ConservationBill LauranceAmazon, rainfall, habitat fragmentation, deforestation, evapotranspiration, roads, hunting, logging, BR-319, Elephant, poaching, stranded assets, mining, China, boom and bust, financial risk, cancer, Dutch Disease, snaring, Leuser Ecosystem, orangutan, rhino, rhino horn, Pandora's Box, bulldozer, land grabbing, rain, extinction, Congo
Carbon Collapse in Fragmented Forests
RainforestsBill Laurancehabitat fragmentation, edge effects, tropical forests, frugivorous animals, microclimatic stresses, wind shear, treefalls, carbon emissions, carbon storage, defaunation, hunting, poaching, frugivores, trees, Rebecca Chaplin-Kramer, Nick Haddad, William Laurance, Susan Laurance, Thomas Lovejoy, Amazon, Biological Dynamics of Forest Fragments Project, edge-related fires, surface fires, Carolina Bello, Mauro Galetti
How Critical Are Big Parks?
Protected AreasJeremy Hanceprotected areas, national parks, endangered species, ecosystems, carbon storage, environmental services, snow leopards, rare species, park size, Colombia, Borneo, Danum Valley, Malaysia, Chiribiquete National Park, hunting, logging, rainforests, climate change, corridors, conservation corridors, Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument, President Obama, President Trump, E. O. Wilson, Half Earth, marine protected areas, climate refugia, Puerto Sabalo-Los Monos Reserve, Monochoa Reserve, big reserves, wildlife corridor, cheetah, ocelot, toucan, Daintree, African forest elephant, Cape Buffalo
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
In An Urbanized World, How Do We Keep Valuing Nature?
Infrastructure Expansion, Most PopularJeremy Hancenature, nature appreciation, loving nature, Jeremy Hance, forests, deforestation, urban growth, urbanization, rural communities, Brazil, China, shifting baseline, hunting, bushmeat, snares, hunters, overhunting, empty forests, Dominican Republic, West Africa
Double Whammy: Primates and Wilderness in Peril
WildlifeBill Laurancedeforestation, Intact Forest Landscapes, habitat fragmentation, hunting, primates, Alejandro Estrada, Lars Laestadius, infrastructure, endangered primates, endangered species, tropical ecosystems, illegal pet trade, bushmeat, overhunting, oil palm, rubber, Nigeria, Cameroon, University of Maryland, UNAM, old-growth forest, human population growth
Silent Forests: Battling Hunting Overkill in Southeast Asia
WildlifeJeremy Hancehunting, poaching, Southeast Asia, snares, Rhett Harrison, deforestation, roads, infrastructure, dams, logging, mining, defaunation, seed dispersal, bushmeat, tigers, pangolins, wild pigs, deer, core forest, population growth, protected areas
Fragmented Future: Wounded Landscapes Imperil More than Biodiversity
Infrastructure ExpansionBill Laurancehabitat fragmentation, edge effects, tropical forests, frugivorous animals, microclimatic stresses, wind shear, treefalls, carbon emissions, carbon storage, defaunation, hunting, poaching, frugivores, trees, Rebecca Chaplin-Kramer, Nick Haddad, William Laurance, Susan Laurance, Thomas Lovejoy, Amazon, Biological Dynamics of Forest Fragments Project, edge-related fires, surface fires, Carolina Bello, Mauro Galetti
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
How well do community-managed lands promote nature conservation?
Bill Laurancecommunity-managed lands, nature conservation, protected areas, hunting, poaching, Amazon, Indonesia, Brazil, Papua New Guinea, traditional landowners, migration, frontier migration, transmigration, indigenous peoples, indigenous lands, gaur, tiger, clouded leopard, golden cat
The global collapse of the great animal migrations
Bill Laurancemigration, migratory species, buffalo, elephants, gaur, Indochina, Cambodia, Borneo, sun bear, bearded pig, shorebirds, China, Korea, Mohave Desert, bighorn sheep, Serengeti, wildebeest, David Wilcove, habitat fragmentation, hunting
Will tigers survive in India?
Roads to ruin: Southeast Asia's most environmentally destructive highways
Bill Lauranceroads, highways, deforestation, hunting, poaching, illegal logging, illegal mining, Southeast Asia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand, Myanmar, Gopalasamy Reuben Clements, endangered mammals, endangered species, wilderness, endemic species, Philippines, roads to ruin
Explosion of illegal roads in the Amazon
Bill LauranceAmazon, roads, Brazil, deforestation, remote sensing, illegal roads, legal roads, logging, hunting, mining, ranchers, loggers, Brazilian Amazon
Megadiversity in peril?
Gopalasamy Reuben ClementsPeninsular Malaysia, Malaysia, Rimba, Gopalasamy Reuben Clements, Sheema Aziz, tiger, elephant, deforestation, oil palm, logging, hunting
The plight of primates... 9000 killed for one bushmeat market
Bill Lauranceprimates, deforestation, Indonesia, Ivory Coast, Cote d'Ivoire, poaching, overhunting, pet trade, monkeys, orangutan, Leuser Ecosystem, Sumatra, rhinoceros, elephant, tiger, overpopulation, hunting, bushmeat
ALERT press release: Roads imperil wilderness
Protect wilderness from rapacious road expansion
Bill Lauranceroads, developing nations, road expansion, wilderness, RoadFree, Kriton Arsenis, William Laurance, International Day of Forests, deforestation, logging, mining, hunting, illegal colonization, land speculation
Earth's big predators 'being decimated'
ConservationBill Laurancepredators, carnivores, apex predators, mammals, extinction, hunting, trapping, habitat loss, tigers, bears, wild dogs, sea otters, big cats
Where should roads go and not go?
Infrastructure ExpansionBill Lauranceroads, deforestation, global road map, forest conservation, hunting, agriculture, yield gaps, highways, land-use zoning, protected area, parks
