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

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Sierra del Divisor's famed cone. Photo by Diego Pérez / El Taller.pe

Peru creates ‘Yellowstone of the Amazon’: 3.3M acre reserve home to uncontacted tribes, endangered wildlife

Rhett Ayers Butler 7 Nov 2015
Picture courtesy of Greenpeace.

Photos confirm Indonesia being burned for palm oil

Mongabay Haze Beat 5 Nov 2015
Members of the indigenous community live at the riverbanks in Kapuas river where the air is engulfed with thick haze at Sei Ahass village, Kapuas district, Central Kalimantan province on Borneo island, Indonesia. These fires are a threat to the health of millions. Smoke from landscape fires kills an estimated 110,000 people every year across Southeast Asia, mostly as a result of heart and lung problems, and weakening newborn babies.

Greenpeace releases dramatic haze photos as Indonesian fire emissions surpass 1.6B tons

Mongabay.com 1 Nov 2015
Juvenile syntype of the Golden-crowned langur (Presbytis johnaspinalli). Courtesy of Nardelli 2015.

Bird market photo yields an unknown monkey species in Indonesia

Rhett Ayers Butler 23 Oct 2015

Indonesia’s massive haze problem is Jokowi’s big opportunity

Rhett Ayers Butler 22 Oct 2015

Carbon emissions from Indonesia’s peat fires exceed emissions from entire U.S. economy

Rhett Ayers Butler 15 Oct 2015

Plantation companies challenged by haze-causing fires in Indonesia

Rhett Ayers Butler 14 Oct 2015
Two Global Forest Watch images showing near-term (left) and long-term (right) change in forest cover inside PT. Tualang Raya's concession.

Palm oil company caught destroying primary forest in endangered ecosystem

Rhett Ayers Butler 12 Oct 2015

Can elephants cure cancer? (Weekly environmental news roundup)

Brittany Stewart 10 Oct 2015

Sneak Peek into Paris: new climate change draft treaty revealed

Patrick Cage, John O. Niles 9 Oct 2015

Coastal dune lakes: the threatened ‘jewels’ of Florida

Marie Frei 9 Oct 2015

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, 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

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Yo Yaj at Songkhla Lake, Thailand
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