Comments on: Tropical turmoil – a biodiversity tragedy in progress

By: No substitute for primary forest « ConservationBytes.com

No substitute for primary forest « ConservationBytes.com — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 17:31:48 +0000

[...] the argument so utterly that I think most people merely moved on. We know for a fact that tropical biodiversity is waning rapidly, and in many parts of the world, it is absolutely [insert expletive here]. However, the argument [...]

By: Global rates of forest loss – everyone’s a bastard « ConservationBytes.com

Wed, 28 Apr 2010 15:12:39 +0000

[...] rather a lot about rates of forest loss around the world, including accumulated estimates of tropical forest loss and increasing fragmentation/loss in the boreal forest (see Bradshaw et al. 2009 Front Ecol Evol [...]

By: No end in sight for tropical deforestation « ConservationBytes.com

No end in sight for tropical deforestation « ConservationBytes.com — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 04:07:15 +0000

[...] years of conservation biologists telling the world about the woeful state of the world’s forests, the loss of essential ecosystem services and the biodiversity extinction crisis, it seems the [...]

By: Emmanuel Obiri-Yeboah

Emmanuel Obiri-Yeboah — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 10:15:34 +0000

Biodiversity loss in the tropical world is due to the people’s own attitude towards conservation. This may be due to lack of formal education on such issues as conservation systems like afforestation, planting of cover crops to avoid erosion and weathering. Conservation does not mean that things of nature like trees etc. should not be touche at all, but it means that, they should be replaced after use.

By: Tropical turmoil - a biodiversity tragedy in progress | Forest Policy Research

Sun, 08 Mar 2009 23:14:41 +0000

[...] Sodhi and Barry Brook) and I had in press in Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment entitled Tropical turmoil – a biodiversity tragedy in progress. The paper is now available in the March 2009 issue of the journal (click here to [...]

By: Tropical Turmoil II « ConservationBytes.com

Tropical Turmoil II « ConservationBytes.com — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 20:36:39 +0000

By: Another nail in Borneo’s biodiversity coffin « ConservationBytes.com

Another nail in Borneo’s biodiversity coffin « ConservationBytes.com — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 02:49:50 +0000

[...] “to underestimate the stupidity of the human race”; yet, I am too often surprised. Borneo is one of the places in the tropics with the worst track record in destroying ecosystems and the services they provide. The Malaysian government couldn’t be more self-destructive [...]