Stealing the Rain from a Rainforest
Martine Marondrought, rainforest, Daintree Drought Experiment, Susan Laurance, James Cook University, Daintree Rainforest Observatory, tree survival, plant physiology, big trees, fires, canopy crane, Godzilla
Wildife struggle in an increasingly noisy world
Bill Laurancenoise, traffic noise, road expansion, Heidi Ware, phantom road, wildlife stress, migratory species, migratory birds, William Laurance, national parks, nature reserves, infrastructure, human-generated noise, Idaho
Could disease be driving extinctions of Australian mammals?
Bill LauranceAustralian mammal declines, Northern Australian mammal declines, disease, epidemic disease, foreign pathogen, bettongs, northern bettong, brush-tailed bettong, chytrid fungus, frog declines, rinderpest, white-nose disease, ebola, feral cats, overgrazing, fire regimes, Sandra Abell, Penny van Oosterzee, Noel Preece, James Cook University, Peter Daszak, Tasmanian Devil, facial tumor disease, Trypanosomiasis, Christmas Island, Northern Bettong, Woylie, Brush-tailed Bettong, Saiga antelope
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
A heroic effort to save elephants and forests in Cambodia
Bill LauranceElephant Valley, Elephant Valley Project, Cambodia, deforestation, rubber plantations, ecotourism, elephants, Asian elephant, Mondulkuri Province, plantations, Jack Highwood, domesticated elephants, community outreach
The Indonesian Inferno: A Completely Preventable Crisis
Bill LauranceIndonesia, fires, haze, smoke, smog, school closures, airport closures, air pollution, carbon emissions, peatlands, peat fires, deforestation, Singapore, Malaysia, New Guinea, Sumatra, Borneo, Micronesia, President Joko Widodo, El Nino, drought, Erik Meijaard, fire ban, Brazil, remote sensing, Global Forest Watch, oil palm, Council of Palm Oil Producer Countries, zero deforestation
Killing Koalas and Poisoning Prairies
Bill LauranceCorey Bradshaw, Paul Ehrlich, Killing the Koala and Poisoning the Prairie, University of Chicago Press, ConservationBytes, The Population Bomb, USA, Australia, climate change, habitat loss, pollution, politics
Bushland destruction escalates in Queensland, Australia
Bill LauranceQueensland, deforestation, land clearing, bushland clearing, woodland clearing, WWF-Australia, Martin Taylor, broad-scale clearing ban, riparian forest, regrowth forest, Kyoto Protocol, high-value agriculture, Cape York Peninsula, forest thinning, WWF International, land-clearing controls, panic clearing, map of shame
The 'Chicken from Hell' and other bizarre new species discovered in 2015
Bill Lauranceundiscovered species, new species, newly described species, chicken from hell, cartwheeling spider, coral plant, X-Phylum, Top 10 new species, undiscovered biodiversity, species extinctions
Savanna birds show surprising vulnerability to climate change
Bill LauranceApril Reside, savanna birds, tropical savannas, Australian savannas, fire, grazing, bushland clearing, climate change, rainfall, drought, generalist species, Golden-shouldered parrot, Papuan Frogmouth, Buff-breasted Buttonquail
The assault on India's protected areas and endangered wildlife
Priya DavidarIndia, Bengal tigers, one-horned rhinoceros, Asian elephant, tiger reserves, Modi government, Priya Davidar, National Board for Wildlife, protected areas, wildlife corridor, Kanha Tiger Reserve, Pench Tiger Reserve, Black-necked crane, Flamingoe
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
Selling Noah's Ark? The collapse of Asia's bird biodiversity
Alice Hughesbirds, Indonesia, wildlife trade, illegal wildlife trade, TRAFFIC, endangered species, Alice Hughes, Asian biodiversity, wildlife markets, Jakarta, Songbird Crisis Summit
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 'Godzilla' mega-drought cause global crisis?
Bill Laurancedrought, El Nino, wildfires, Susan Laurance, William Laurance, Daintree Drought Experiment, Amazon, Borneo, Papua New Guinea, New Guinea, Indonesia, Australia, rainforests, habitat fragmentation, logging, rainfall deficits, mega-drought, Godzilla, NASA
For wildlife, huge difference between different kinds of agriculture
Bill Laurancehabitat fragmentation, wildlife, wildlife corridor, bobcat, California, Mediterranean habitats, habitat permeability, bats, birds, understory birds, cacao, shade cacao, Neotropics, landscape management, agriculture
Radio 'shock jock' attacks bid to silence eco-critics
The divestment debate: Should we profit from climate-killing corporations?
Bill Laurancedivestment, mining, fossil fuels, global warming, climate change, carbon dioxide, greenhouse gases, mining lobby, 350.org, universities, retirement funds, superannuation funds, Wayne Branden
Are degraded tropical forests worth saving?
