Rhett Butler

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Brazil rejects oil company’s ‘Amazon Reef’ drilling bid

Mongabay.com 29 Aug 2017

Rethinking conservation funding models in Africa (commentary)

Fred Nelson, Leela Hazzah, John Kasaona, Scott O’Connell, Peter Riger, Bernie Tershy 11 Aug 2017

Photos: Bald eagle bird bath

Julie Larsen Maher, Megan Maher 28 Jul 2017
Rainforest in Malaysian Borneo. Photo by Rhett A. Butler for Mongabay.

Conserving the World’s Remaining Intact Forests (commentary)

Michael Painter, David Wilkie 25 Jul 2017

Big forests, big ag: Are rainforests the right place for industrial agriculture? (commentary)

Glenn Hurowitz 20 Jul 2017

Transforming business as usual in Indonesia: an interview with Aida Greenbury

Rhett Ayers Butler 17 Jul 2017

Scientists condemn expansion of industrial monocultures at expense of traditional gardens in Mexico

Mongabay.com 14 Jul 2017

U.S. bans Brazilian beef imports

Mongabay.com 24 Jun 2017

Photos: India’s rarest crocodile, the gharial

Julie Larsen Maher 19 Jun 2017

Borneo’s ‘biocultural holocaust’: an interview with author Alex Shoumatoff

Rhett Ayers Butler 19 Jun 2017

Documenting the fight to save Borneo’s animals

Mongabay.com 18 Apr 2017

Nepal tests fencing approach to protect farms and elephants

Erik Meijaard 17 Apr 2017

Is sustainability sustainable in the Age of Trump?

Michael Greenhouse, Tensie Whelan 12 Apr 2017

Military base-building destroys coral reefs in the South China Sea

Greg Asner 26 Mar 2017

As America’s Endangered Species List turns 50, uncertainty abounds

Mongabay.com 14 Mar 2017

African Parks gets $65M for conservation in Rwanda and Malawi

Mongabay.com 5 Mar 2017

Survival of nearly 10,000 orangutans in Borneo oil palm estates at stake

Erik Meijaard, Marc Ancrenaz 27 Feb 2017

What happens when the soy and palm oil boom ends?

Rhett Ayers Butler 21 Feb 2017

Revisiting Java’s little Africa: Indonesia’s safari potential

Erik Meijaard 13 Feb 2017

Documenting the consequences of palm oil production beyond Southeast Asia

Mongabay.com 6 Feb 2017

Introducing Mongabay news alerts

Mongabay.com 1 Feb 2017
A rarely seen Bay Owl (Phodilus badius). Photo by Arie Prasetya.

A possible undiscovered orangutan population in Borneo?

Erik Meijaard 31 Jan 2017

Primates face impending extinction – what’s next?

Russell A. Mittermeier, Anthony B. Rylands 24 Jan 2017

Then and now: 100 years of wildlife loss and deforestation in Borneo

Erik Meijaard 21 Jan 2017

A trip on Borneo’s Mahakam River in search of forgotten wildlife

Erik Meijaard 15 Jan 2017

What to expect for rainforests in 2017

Rhett Ayers Butler 4 Jan 2017

The year in tropical rainforests: 2016

Rhett Ayers Butler 31 Dec 2016
A Kenyan ranger guards poached elephant tusks in preparation for the destruction of 105 tons of ivory and a ton of rhino horn in April. Photo by Mwangi Kirubi via Flickr (CC BY-NC 2.0)

China to ban its elephant ivory trade within a year

Mongabay.com 30 Dec 2016

Cheetah populations crash as fastest-animal disappears from 91% of its range

Mongabay.com 26 Dec 2016

Journalist murdered while investigating illegal logging in Myanmar

Mongabay.com 13 Dec 2016

Brazil: deforestation in the Amazon increased 29% over last year

Rhett Ayers Butler 30 Nov 2016

How citizen science is transforming river management in Malaysian Borneo (commentary)

Ken Wilson 29 Nov 2016

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