Key Information
When
4th June 2025
4pm - 5pm
Where
Crowther Lecture Theatre, building A3 Room 002, JCU Nguma-bada campus, Smithfield
Cost
Free
Audience
Public and Community
Contact
Anabel Belson | anabel.belson@jcu.edu.au
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I will highlight threats to tropical forests globally and to the Amazon Basin in particular, covering issues such as road and infrastructure expansion, habitat fragmentation and edge effects, fires, environmental synergisms, and global-change drivers.
Bill Laurance's research addresses some of the planet's most urgent environmental challenges. He is a distinguished research professor at JCU, director of TESS, and a veteran researcher who work spans much of the tropical world. He was formerly a senior staff scientist with the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute.
