1. 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)
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2. 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).
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3. 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).
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