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

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Lumber Liquidators pays $13.2M to end illegal logging probe

Mongabay.com 8 Oct 2015

Queen of elephant ivory trafficking arrested in Tanzania

Mongabay.com 8 Oct 2015

NASA photo shows New Guinea going up in flames

Rhett Ayers Butler 7 Oct 2015

Greenpeace releases dramatic drone video of Indonesia’s fires

Rhett Ayers Butler 7 Oct 2015
Hyorhinomys stuempkei. Courtesy of Museum Victoria

Giant carnivorous rat with long pubic hair discovered in Indonesia

Mongabay.com 6 Oct 2015
Map of historic deforestation in the Amazon rainforest since 1970

Deforestation declines in the Amazon rainforest

Rhett Ayers Butler 6 Oct 2015

California bans ivory

Mongabay.com 5 Oct 2015

HORN looks at rhino poaching through a different lens

Marie Frei 3 Oct 2015

Brazil to cut emissions 300 million tons by 2030

Mongabay.com 2 Oct 2015

Can technology help clean up the palm oil industry?

Rhett Ayers Butler 1 Oct 2015

NASA photo reveals Asia’s choking haze

Rhett Ayers Butler 30 Sep 2015

Norway pledges $47M/yr to help Congo countries save forests

Rhett Ayers Butler 30 Sep 2015
Armand Marozafy dismantling a poacher's trap within Masoala National Park in Madagascar in 2004. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Nature guide freed in Madagascar 5 months after arrest for exposing rosewood trade

Rhett Ayers Butler 25 Sep 2015

A pre-game analysis of what to expect, and not expect, at COP 21

Patrick Cage and John O. Niles 25 Sep 2015

2015 Equator Prize winners span 19 countries

Mongabay.com 21 Sep 2015
Quadcopter drone. Photo courtesy of ConservationDrones.org

Conservation Drones Summit streaming live

17 Sep 2015
Borneo orangutan. Orangutan habitat is being destroyed for oil palm plantations in Indonesian Borneo.

Target, Costco, Grupo Bimbo adopt new palm oil policies

Mongabay.com 16 Sep 2015

Norway pays Brazil $1B to fulfill pledge for curbing deforestation

Rhett Ayers Butler 16 Sep 2015
Giraffes at sunset. Photo by Francois Deacon.

Disappearing giraffes

Fred Bercovitch 13 Sep 2015
Illegal logging in Madagascar's Masoala Peninsula, a protected area where rosewood is commonly targeted

5 African countries agree to combat illegal timber trade

Mongabay.com 10 Sep 2015
Rainforest in Sabah, Malaysia. Malaysia has reported a steep increase in forest cover to FAO, a result of changing how it classifies forest cover.

U.N. data suggests slowdown in forest loss

Rhett Ayers Butler 8 Sep 2015
Pittsfield State Forest in Massachusetts. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

How many trees are cut down every year?

Rhett Ayers Butler 2 Sep 2015

California takes step toward banning elephant ivory, rhino horn trades

Rhett Ayers Butler 2 Sep 2015

Global forest loss reached 46 million acres in 2014

Rhett Ayers Butler 2 Sep 2015
Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon. Photo by Rhett A Butler

Brazil’s deforestation alert system reports surge in Amazon forest clearing

Rhett Ayers Butler 1 Sep 2015
Male of the recently rediscovered Azuay Stubfoot-Toad (Atelopus bomolochos) foraging on moss.

Good news: Stunning ‘extinct’ toad rises again in Ecuador (photos)

Mongabay.com 1 Sep 2015

Rhino killing on record pace in South Africa

Mongabay.com 1 Sep 2015
Lowland rainforest in Riau, Sumatra. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Rainforests doomed unless world adopts ‘development without destruction’, warn scientists

Rhett Ayers Butler 29 Aug 2015

Trapped between zoo and sanctuary: the dilemma of the institutionalized ape named Sandra (commentary)

Shawn Thompson 26 Aug 2015

Amazon paradox: drop in large-scale deforestation makes enforcement more difficult

Rhett Ayers Butler 19 Aug 2015

MacArthur Foundation puts $50M toward boosting U.S. climate leadership

Mongabay.com 19 Aug 2015

Controversy and awareness-raising (commentary)

Rhett Ayers Butler 19 Aug 2015

News and Inspiration from Nature's Frontline.

Rinchin Jomaba. Chef, Damu's Kitchen.How a remote diner in India is fueling a culinary and ecological revival
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An aerial view of mining operations run by KP Cement, Vantage Mining and others inside Prey Lang Wildlife Sanctuary in October 2023. Image by Gerald Flynn / Mongabay.
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Saiga herd during a calving period. Image by Albert Salemgareyev and courtesy of the Association for the Conservation Biodiversity of Kazakhstan/Vera Voronova.
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