A new WWF report puts eastern Australia among the world's deforestation hotspots, write Martine Maron & Bill Laurance - estimating that 3-6 million hectares of native forest will be cleared there over the next 15 years. Queensland's new Labor government could reverse the destructive policies - but will it turn a new leaf?
… Why is Australia topping WWF's world deforestation league? Martine … A new WWF report puts eastern Australia among the … regions highlighted in a new chapter of the WWF Living Forests report ' Saving forests at …
A succession of mega-corporations that have been driving rainforest destruction in Indonesia have recently announced 'no deforestation' policies. Bill Lawrance asks: is it too good to be true?
… practices. Having seen the fine print, WWF, which initially supported APRIL's new … chair is co-funded by Utrecht University and WWF-Netherlands. He receives funding from the …
How we communicate with others affects how the environmental community is perceived. Self-confidence, a positive outlook and ‘being the change’ is the way to go.
… to David Key of Footprint Consulting and WWF initiative Natural Change. ‘They are … the natural change project he developed with WWF is to invite people to have their epiphany …
The sudden shift from 'Least Concern' to 'Vulnerable' status for all four species of giraffe is a red flag for their survival, writes Bill Laurance. Hunted down by poachers with automatic weapons for their 'trophy' tails, their range fragmented by roads and mines, and their woodland habitat cleared for farms or burnt for charcoal, giraffes need our help, fast.
… wider trend in wildlife populations. A recent WWF report forecasts that we are on track to …
Limiting climate change is just the start of what we need to do to forestall a runaway cascade of species extinctions, write Bill Laurance & Paul Ehrlich. We must also reverse the destruction and fragmentation of key wildlife habitats, constrain our over-consumption of natural resources, stabilise human numbers - and elect leaders determined to prioritise these issues.
… trees are falling dramatically in abundance. WWF's 2016 Living Planet Report summarises …
Roads are responsible for massive environmental damage around the world, writes Bill Laurance - yet they also bring huge benefits. His solution? A new atlas that shows where the 'goods' of roads outweigh the 'bads', so that developing countries can harness the prosperity new roads can bring, without the destruction.
… is co-sponsored by Utrecht University and WWF-Netherlands. This article was originally …
From Catalonia in the South, through the Ariège and Béarn, to the Basque country in the North, both locals and tourists are used to seeing Nationalist slogans daubed in white paint on Pyrenean mountain roads. But now a new clarion call is vying for their attention: Non Ours (no bears) and Mort aux Ours (death to the bears.)
… Walkington, head of species programme at WWF UK, choices and priorities must be made, …