[3] He held the Prince Bernhard Chair for International Nature Conservation at Utrecht University, Netherlands from 2010 to 2014.

[5] Since he was interested in nature conservation, he decided in the early 1980s to study imperiled tropical forests for his PhD.

[7] These include two edited volumes,[8][9] as well as analyses of conservation-policy challenges in the Brazilian Amazon,[10] Gabon,[11] Southeast Asia,[12] and New Guinea.

[24] His scientific interests include assessing the impacts of deforestation,[25] logging,[26] hunting,[27] wildfires,[28] road expansion,[29] and climatic change[30] on tropical ecosystems and biodiversity.

This organization, which Laurance leads, is engaged in scientific and conservation advocacy and currently reaches 1-2 million readers[citation needed] each week using a range of social-media platforms.