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Rhett Butler is the founder and CEO of Mongabay. He also servers as managing editor.

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Brazilian environment chief arrested on illegal forest-clearing charges

Protectors of wildlife in war-torn Congo recognized with new Award

The Great Noodling Experiment: Hand-fishing for giant catfish now legal

The real story of Madagascar; new information site explores the island

Dancing lemur attracts tourists to island of Madagascar

Gray Corps of senior citizens could help fight poverty, health problems in developing world

China’s Imminent Water Crisis

Prize recognizes largest contributor to Amazon rainforest destruction

Paving of road brings change in the Amazon rainforest

Second “uncontacted” tribe in Amazon rain forest threatened by loggers

Tourism in Madagascar; Visiting the World’s Most Unusual Island

World Bank aims to reduce deforestation rates by 10% by 2010 with help from WWF

Developing sustainable business models that address the needs of the world’s poor

Shareholders ask ExxonMobil to produce report on risks of oil drilling in sensitive areas

ExxonMobil asked to stay out of Arctic National Wildlife Refuge by shareholder group

Helping the poor by selling them stuff

Recordings of coral reef sounds attract fish

Green party quits government to protest Amazon deforestation

T3Ci signs RFID analytics pact with Procter & Gamble

Why visit the real island of Madagascar?

Tsunami relief, rainforest attack; aid groups conflict over deforestation and reconstruction

A look at why is Madagascar so poor

Renewable surf energy; Wave farm to harvest electricity from sea swells

Rainforest loss in the Amazon tops 200,000 square miles, new figures from Brazilian government

Photos of new monkey species found in Africa

Why sustainably-managed eco-friendly wood is more expensive for consumers

Farming the world’s largest fish – an alternative to deforestation

New monkey discovered in Tanzania

Vampire Fish discovered in the Amazon

Should environmentalists fear logging or learn to understand its impact?

Somewhere Out There, Millions of Species Await Discovery

Cultivated forests play important economic and ecological role in Indonesia

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