Volume 25, Issue 7, Pages R259-R262 (March 2015) Reducing the global environmental impacts of rapid infrastructure expansion  William F. Laurance, Anna Peletier-Jellema, Bart Geenen, Harko Koster, Pita Verweij, Pitou Van Dijck, Thomas E. Lovejoy, Judith Schleicher, Marijke Van Kuijk  Current Biology  Volume 25, Issue 7, Pages R259-R262 (March 2015) DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2015.02.050 Copyright © 2015 Elsevier Ltd Terms and Conditions

Figure 1 Road kill. Roads in relatively pristine areas such as national parks and wilderness can open a Pandora’s Box of environmental problems. Here, a road-killed tapir in Peninsular Malaysia (© WWF-Malaysia/Lau Ching Fong). Current Biology 2015 25, R259-R262DOI: (10.1016/j.cub.2015.02.050) Copyright © 2015 Elsevier Ltd Terms and Conditions

Figure 2 The first cut is the deepest. A key principle for conservation of many native ecosystems is to ‘avoid the first cut’ — keep them road-free — whenever possible. Shown here is a logging road in Sabah, Malaysian Borneo (© Rhett Butler). Current Biology 2015 25, R259-R262DOI: (10.1016/j.cub.2015.02.050) Copyright © 2015 Elsevier Ltd Terms and Conditions