Rhett Butler

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Paid in Blood: Standing up to private interests often turns deadly in Brazil

Yessenia Funes 14 Jun 2021
Heat spots in areas with Prodes warnings (2017-2019). Area next to the borders of the Kaxarari Indigenous territory, in Lábrea, Amazonas state. Taken 17 Aug, 2020. CREDIT: © Christian Braga / Greenpeace

Amazon rainforest destruction is accelerating, shows government data

Rhett Ayers Butler 11 Jun 2021
African White-backed Vulture (Gyps africanus) in flight over the Masai Mara, Kenya. Photo credit: Lip Kee

Podcaster Tuli Amakali on the African white-backed vulture

Mongabay.com 11 Jun 2021
The "Stop the Chop Protest" in Miri, Sarawak against Malaysian forestry company Samling in October 2020. Photo credit: The Borneo Project

‘Listening to communities must go beyond ticking compliance boxes’, says Peter Kallang, a Kenyah leader

Rhett Ayers Butler 9 Jun 2021

Our 10 most popular conservation stories in May 2021

Mongabay.com 8 Jun 2021
Heat spots in areas with Prodes (2017-2018) and Deter warnings, Novo Progresso, Pará state.

May deforestation in the Amazon hits 14-year high, with 4 days of data still to process

Rhett Ayers Butler 4 Jun 2021
Zacambu River in Peru. Photo by Rhett A. Butler for Mongabay.

US, UK join Norway and Germany in effort to protect Peru’s rainforests

Mongabay.com 4 Jun 2021
Brett Jenks visits with Mabi, the clown fish mascot of a community Pride campaign in the Philippines in 2011. Photo credit: Rare

‘Inspiring behavior change so people and nature thrive’: Q&A with Rare’s Brett Jenks

Rhett Ayers Butler 1 Jun 2021

U.S. journalist arrested when trying to leave Myanmar

Mongabay.com 24 May 2021
The golden terribilis dart frog, the world's most poisonous frog, is featured in one of the episodes. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler

Actor Juan Pablo Espinosa on the golden dart frog

Mongabay.com 24 May 2021
Deforestation for cattle ranching in the Brazilian Amazon. Photo by Rhett A. Butler for Mongabay.

Norwegian poultry producer bars Brazilian soy due to deforestation risk

Mongabay.com 21 May 2021

Jane Goodall wins Templeton Prize for work at intersection of science and spirituality

Mongabay.com 20 May 2021

Graham Sibley leads new podcast celebrating endangered species

Rhett Ayers Butler 20 May 2021
African elephants in Queen Elizabeth National Park, Uganda. Photo credit: Gregoire Dubois

An engaged society is key for the future of African conservation, says WWF Africa’s Alice Ruhweza

Rhett Ayers Butler 20 May 2021

Amazon palm oil has not lived up to its promise of sustainability (commentary)

Rhett Ayers Butler 20 May 2021
Paula with Floreana racer. Photo credit: Luis Ortiz Catedral

DiCaprio, conservationists launch $43M effort to restore Galápagos Islands

Rhett Ayers Butler 17 May 2021
EcoNusa's COVID-19 expedition. Photo credit: EcoNusa

Mongabay’s most popular stories in April 2021

Mongabay.com 17 May 2021
Tucabaca Wildlife Reserve in Roboré, Bolivia. Photo credit: Adro Molina

Rallying the public to save Bolivia’s forests: Q&A with Gina Méndez

Rhett Ayers Butler 14 May 2021
Satellite image of Cocos (Keeling) Islands. Image credit: Maxar Technologies

New Australian marine parks protect area twice Great Barrier Reef’s size

Mongabay.com 13 May 2021
Redwood trees in California. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler

A Madagascar-sized area of forest has regrown since 2000

Rhett Ayers Butler 12 May 2021
Burning forest in Rondonia in 2020. Photo credit: Fabio Nascimento

Amazon deforestation jumps sharply in April

Mongabay.com 8 May 2021
Redwood trees in California. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler

Biden lays out vision for protecting 30% of US land, waters by 2030

Mongabay.com 6 May 2021

NRA Video: Conquering nature will never be the silver bullet (commentary)

Kate Dylewsky 6 May 2021
Road in Indonesian Borneo. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler

‘I never give up’: Q&A with Chinese environmental lawyer Jingjing Zhang

Rhett Ayers Butler 5 May 2021
Pangolin in Cambodia. Pangolins are among the most trafficked animals in the world. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler

We can prevent the next pandemic (commentary)

Sonila Cook and Nigel Sizer 4 May 2021

“How do we manage fisheries in the midst of climate change?” Q&A with EDF’s Eric Schwaab

Rhett Ayers Butler 3 May 2021
Sphere panoramic photo of redwoods in California. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler

The Nature Conservancy’s Jennifer Morris is an ‘impatient optimist’

Rhett Ayers Butler 27 Apr 2021
Sierra del Divisor. Photo credit: the Field Museum

We need more rewilding and connections to nature, says Enrique Ortiz

Rhett Ayers Butler 26 Apr 2021
Amazon rainforest canopy. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler / mongabay

Governments, companies pledge $1 billion for tropical forests

Aurora Solá, Rhett Ayers Butler 23 Apr 2021

Fear not the bobcat (Commentary)

Mark Elbroch 23 Apr 2021
Wild elephant in South Africa. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler

Novelizing wildlife crime investigations: Q&A with author Bryan Christy

Rhett Ayers Butler 23 Apr 2021
The Amazon. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler

The political economy of the Pan-Amazon (book excerpt)

Timothy J. Killeen 22 Apr 2021

News and Inspiration from Nature's Frontline.

Collage, Jahëna Louisin, Mongabay reporter, and a Vodun ritual
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The short-eared dog inhabits the Amazon and prefers untouched forests. Image courtesy of Guido Ayala & María Viscarra/WCS Bolivia.
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Photographer Jonathan Bachman was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for capturing a photograph of Ieshia Evans being arrested in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. It was Ieshia Evans first protest, and Bachman’s first time covering one. The photo was included in The New York Times’ “The Year in Pictures 2016,” among other honors. jonathan bachman / reuters. Shepard Fairey—a prolific artist and activist who often addresses social and political issues in his work—was invited by the authors of ‘Protest’ to interpret Bachman’s photograph for the book. Image credit to Shepard Fairey. Image Courtesy of Patagonia Books.
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