Turning Rainforest To Furniture – Global Markets Gobble Up the Congo Basin
Rainforests, Editors PicksBill LauranceChina, deforestation, Congo Basin, Congo rainforest, Logging, United State, Global Markets, African Timber, European Union, illegal logging, Cameroon, native forests, timber-importing nations, Global Timber Trade, Chinese loggers, Furniture
The Vast Congo River to be Imperiled by the World's Biggest Dam
Infrastructure ExpansionAlice HughesInga Dam, Inga 3 Dam, Democratic Republic of Congo, Congo River, Congo Basin, roads, powerlines, hydroelectric dam, Transparency International, corruption, deforestation, environmental impact assessments, okapi, bonobo, Congo rainforest, Bundi Valley, aquatic wildlife, freshwater biodiversity, malaria
The World's Largest Primate Teeters on the Edge of Extinction
WildlifeBill Laurancegorilla, Grauer's Gorilla, Democratic Republic of Congo, Jefferson Hall, Andrew Plumtree, Stuart Nixon, Ghislain Vieilledent, critically endangered, poaching, Coltan, illegal mining, Congo Basin, mountain gorilla, civil war, war, park rangers, Punia Gorilla Reserve, Itombwe Natural Reserve, Kahuzi-Biega National Park, blood gold, blood diamonds, blood coltan
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
Heated debate over boreal forests
Bill Lauranceboreal forests, habitat fragmentation, forest edges, edge effects, Nick Haddad, Jeff Wells, Joe Sexton, Corey Bradshaw, Canada, Siberia, migratory species, breeding birds, scientific debate, habitat fragmentation experiments, taiga, forest fires, Amazon, Congo Basin, logging, seismic exploration, wilderness, Alberta, Russia, climate change, insect outbreaks
Habitat fragmentation is having "terrifying" effects on ecosystems
Bill Laurancehabitat fragmentation, deforestation, Nick Haddad, Thomas Lovejoy, William Laurance, Biological Dynamics of Forest Fragments Project, experimental studies, roads, forest invasions, edge effects, Amazon Basin, Congo Basin, forest elephants, poaching
ALERT confronts US Ambassador about roads
Bill Lauranceroads, highways, road expansion, wilderness, deforestation, Kenneth Quinn, US ambassador, Congo Basin, Amazon Basin, New Guinea, Siberia, National Geographic, environmental impacts, rural communities, food security
