Posts tagged illegal roads
Asia’s Environmental ‘Eden’ in Crisis
RainforestsBill LauranceLeuser Ecosystem, Sumatra, Indonesia, habitat fragmentation, roads, highway of death, orangutan, tiger, elephant, rhinoceros, illegal roads, Aceh government, Aceh Spatial Plan, Irwandi Yusuf, Sean Sloan, deforestation, poaching, oil palm, hydropower projects, geothermal project, power line
Mining Madness In The Amazon
Infrastructure ExpansionBill LauranceEcuador, mining, industrial mining, illegal gold mining, Michel Temer, John Seed, Philip Fearnside, Protected Forests, Bosques Protectores, mining concessions, PADDD, endemic birds, Andes, RENCA, roads, deforestation, garampeiros, illegal roads, Ruralist
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
A Vital New Initiative to Learn How Roads Are Imperiling Nature
Infrastructure ExpansionBill LauranceRoadLess, E.C. Joint Research Center, Steve Peedell, Frederic Achard, deforestation, poaching, roads, rainforests, carbon trading, land zoning, land-use planning, wilderness, illegal mining, logging, Congo Basin, Amazon, Peru, Brazil, illegal roads, logging roads, crowdsourcing, satellite imagery
Dramatic spike in Amazon deforestation
Bill LauranceBrazilian Amazon, deforestation, roads, railroad, Brazil, soy moratorium, protected areas, President Lula, Dorothy Stang, Philip Fearnside, illegal roads, cattle ranching, Brazilian exports
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
