How Blocking Illegal ‘Ghost’ Roads Could Protect Tropical Forests

New research tries to anticipate road building to identify areas in the Amazon, Asia and Africa that are likely to face deforestation.

Map of the Week: Illegal Ghost Roads | UBIQUE

Network of ‘ghost roads’ paves the way for levelling Asia-Pacific rainforests

Bulldozed tracks and informal byways in tropical forests and palm-oil plantations ‘almost always’ an indicator of future deforestation, say researchers

Network of ‘ghost roads’ paves the way for levelling Asia-Pacific rainforests

Bulldozed tracks and informal byways in tropical forests and palm-oil plantations ‘almost always’ an indicator of future deforestation, say researchers

Roads of destruction: we found vast numbers of illegal ‘ghost roads’ used to crack open pristine rainforest

What harm can a road do? Plenty. Once built, illegal roads let loggers, miners, poachers and landgrabbers into the jungle, and the felling begins.

Cursed and crumbling ghost roads of the DC region

Halloween’s haunted houses and hayrides come and go, but there are a few haunted and historic highways around the D.C. region that lurk year-round.