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Climate change’s next casualty may be tiny insects – and the impact will be huge

Forty per cent of insect species are declining and a third are endangered, finds a study.

Bill Laurance, The Conversation
· Feb 14, 2019 · 09:30 pm
Could introducing rhinos to Australia help conserve them? The idea may not be as crazy as it sounds

Rhino populations are being rapidly destroyed in their traditional habitats.

Bill Laurance, The Conversation
· Jul 23, 2018 · 08:30 pm
China’s growing global footprint threatens to trample the natural world

Xi Jinping’s claim that the Belt and Road initiative will be ‘green, low-carbon’ is profoundly divorced from reality.

Bill Laurance, The Conversation
· Dec 11, 2017 · 09:30 pm

Good news for the only place on Earth where tigers, rhinos, orangutans and elephants live together

Thanks to a new government moratorium on land clearing, conservationists have enjoyed a big win in Sumatra.

Bill Laurance, The Conversation
· May 18, 2016 · 11:30 pm
The world's forests will collapse if we don't learn to say 'no'

New data have revealed a disturbing trend in forest loss: the hearts of the world's forests are disappearing. To stop them bleeding out, we'll have to say 'no' to some developments.

Bill Laurance, The Conversation
· Feb 09, 2016 · 11:30 pm
Five trends that will define the world’s forests this year

From drought to economic slowdown, 2016 promises a mixed bag for the world's forests.

Bill Laurance, The Conversation
· Jan 26, 2016 · 11:30 pm

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