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The path to our next pandemic.

Can 'smart' roads save the Amazon? If wise decisions that help vulnerable ecosystems survive are made when planning road development.

Can ‘smart’ roads save the Amazon?

Emerging challenges for sustainable development and forest conservation in Sarawak, Borneo.

How is mining helping to destroy the Amazon?

Clue: It’s not just forest loss at the mine site itself.

Clue - its not just forest loss at the mine site itself.

Uploaded by Centre for Tropical Environmental and Sustainability Science on 2019-08-28.

Why is china so interested in the amazon?

This video looks as how Chinese trade with Latin America is affecting the Amazon.

Papua New Guinea

Road-Building Explosion Imperils Forests And Economic Stability In Papua New Guinea

Uploaded by Centre for Tropical Environmental and Sustainability Science on 2019-07-25.

Uploaded by Centre for Tropical Environmental and Sustainability Science on 2019-10-04.

why is green energy destroying the amazon?

This looks at how dams are affecting the Amazon and increasing emissions of toxic gasses.

How are roads in the Amazon spreading fires?

Uploaded by Centre for Tropical Environmental and Sustainability Science on 2019-09-24.

China’s Belt and Road

The biggest economic peril of this century.

Borneo holds the largest remaining rainforests in South-east Asia. Yet a mega-plan for massive infrastructure construction across the Indonesian side of the island threatens a collapse in the natural heritage of Borneo.

Development Dangers For Borneo

The Amazon rainforest is one of the last great wildernesses, supporting the world's most diverse ecosystems and covering an area the size of the U.S.A. However, a new road project, a major upgrade to the BR-319 highway, risks catalyzing a flood of illegal road building, logging, poaching, and droughts.

Why chop the Amazon in half?

The Leuser Ecosystem in northern Sumatra, Indonesia is unique-the last place on Earth where Orangutans, Tigers, Elephants, and Rhinos still survive together. But human pressures such as illegal logging, poaching, and forest burning are intense, and have already destroyed most of Sumatra's forests. Will the Leuser survive?

Asia’s vanishing ecosystem

Rainforests across the globe are in danger from the expansion and building of roads. When roads segment rainforests, they leave them vulnerable to drought, deforestation, poaching and much more.

How to steel the rain from the rainforest

When a nation commits to a big development project, they are making a major gamble that the potential rewards will outweigh the risks involved. The project could reap big rewards for the country, or it could go bust, resulting in spiralling costs, corruption, expensive maintenance and repairs, environmental destruction and debt.

Why big projects can turn into a giant gamble

Many nations are rapidly developing their natural resources, but big development projects can actually provoke an array of financial and social stresses. Unless these stresses are carefully managed, their impacts on employment, social welfare, and economic and political stability can be serious-even devastating.

Why nations can loose big money on big projects

Roads can lead to the extinction of species. This is happening today with African forest elephants in the Congo basin, who are falling victim to fragmentation, isolation, and poaching.

How roads drive extinction

If a country relies too much on exploiting it's natural resources, the entire economy could collapse.

Giant natural-resource projects can devastate the economy