Rhett Butler

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Peruvian presidential candidates spur concerns among environmentalists

Milton López Tarabochia 3 Jun 2016

U.S. to enforce strict elephant ivory ban

Mongabay.com 3 Jun 2016
Chelonoidis donfaustoi: Eastern Santa Cruz Tortoise, Santa Cruz Island, Galapagos. Photo credit: Washington Tapia

Pictures: the top 10 new species of 2016?

Mongabay.com 1 Jun 2016
The Critically Endangered Blue-eyed Ground-dove © Rafael Bessa

First-ever photos of long-lost blue-eyed bird from Brazil

Mongabay.com 24 May 2016

The assassinations of Mother Nature’s guardians (commentary)

Fred Bercovitch 24 May 2016
Red-eyed tree frog. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler

The top 10 most biodiverse countries

Rhett Ayers Butler 21 May 2016
Riparian forest and soy. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

Brazilian soy industry extends moratorium on deforestation indefinitely

Mongabay.com 9 May 2016

Peru’s climate commitments threatened by advancing oil palm

Milton López Tarabochia 28 Apr 2016

Peruvian town faces another 14 years of air pollution from mine

Milagros Salazar, Milton López 28 Apr 2016

5 wildlife rangers shot – 3 killed – by poachers in Congo park

Mongabay.com 25 Apr 2016

For Earth Day: climbing a redwood tree

Tina Butler 21 Apr 2016

Do we really want to save the Sumatran rhinoceros? (commentary)

Francesco Nardelli 21 Apr 2016

Palm oil, mining moratorium declared in Indonesia’s Leuser Ecosystem

Mongabay.com 20 Apr 2016

Controversial dam officially canceled in Borneo after indigenous protests

Mongabay.com 28 Mar 2016
Mahi mahi. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

$90M to decouple food production from negative environmental impacts

Mongabay.com 27 Mar 2016

Conservation giant puts $100M into Amazon protected areas

Rhett Ayers Butler 22 Mar 2016

Study doubles the number of endangered Sumatran orangutans believed to exist

Loren Bell 4 Mar 2016

World Wildlife Day 2016: Why Wildlife Needs YOU

Paul Rosolie 3 Mar 2016

77 inspiring rainforest pictures

Rhett Ayers Butler 14 Feb 2016

Fires burned 26% of forestry giant’s South Sumatra plantations in 2015

Rhett Ayers Butler 4 Feb 2016

Primate-Watching: In the Year of the Monkey, let’s build a Conservation Movement

Russell A. Mittermeier 3 Feb 2016

Madagascar scientists unsure how best to guard frogs from fungus

Elizabeth Devitt 30 Jan 2016

The Paris climate talks ended in elation — now the real work begins, say Faith leaders

Justin Catanoso 25 Jan 2016

Leonardo DiCaprio puts millions toward nature conservation

Mongabay.com 21 Jan 2016

Tropical Conservation Science – September 2015

Mongabay.com 28 Sep 2015

Parker/Gentry Award for Conservation

Rhett Ayers Butler 9 Sep 2014

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31 Jul 2012
Google Earth image showing deforestation frontier in the Brazilian Amazon.

Could palm oil help save the Amazon? (2011)

Rhett Ayers Butler 14 Jun 2011
Aerial view of the Amazon rainforest canopy. Photo by Rhett A. Butler for Mongabay.

Is Amazon conservation worth more than clearing for cattle or soy?

Rhett Ayers Butler 17 Oct 2007
African elephants in Queen Elizabeth National Park, Uganda. Photo credit: Gregoire Dubois

The interview title

Rhett Ayers Butler 8 May 2007
A critically endangered baiji dolphin. Image by Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences / Wikimedia Commons.

A farewell to the Yangtze’s ghost, the Baiji

Rhett Ayers Butler 15 Dec 2006
Satellite image of the Rio Negro in September 2020. Courtesy of Zoom.Earth.

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