Posts tagged law enforcement
New Roads Are Devastating The Congo
Infrastructure ExpansionBill LauranceCongo, deforestation, logging, mining, illegal logging, poaching, Cross River Gorilla, Cameroon, Nigeria, Eugene Dongmo, Louis Nkembi, Arend de Haas, GLAD data, time-series, infrastructure, roads, fragmentation, EIAs, protected areas, law enforcement, China, Chinese loggers, Chinese miners, remote-sensing data, cultural conservation, Africa, rainforest
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
Combating Asia's Catastrophic Illegal Wildlife Trade
WildlifeBill Lauranceillegal wildlife trade, poaching, Asia, Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation, Jacob Phelps, Chris Shepherd, Tony Lynam, Conservation Asia 2016, captive breeding, endangered species, overexploitation, organized crime, law enforcement, CITES, wildlife markets, silent forests
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
Good news: Deforestation slowing in some countries
Bill Laurancedeforestation, REDD+, governance, law enforcement, payments for ecosystem services, empowering local communities, Brazil, Costa Rica, Mexico, Vietnam, Equatorial Africa, carbon emissions, moratoria, soy, beef, deforestation drivers, Guyana, Kenya, Madagascar
