Rhett A. Butler

Rhett A. Butler

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Rhett Butler is the founder and CEO of Mongabay.

Rhett founded Mongabay out of his passion for wildlife and wild places.

He has traveled widely in the tropics and enjoys photography, hiking, and scuba-diving.

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Remote river in the Peruvian Amazon. Photo credit: Microsoft Zoom Earth

For International Day of Forests, an update on rainforest developments

Rhett A. Butler 19 Mar 2021

Rewilding public lands in Patagonia and beyond: Q&A with Kris Tompkins

Rhett A. Butler 9 Mar 2021
Bernadette Demientieff at a protest.

“Our identity is non negotiable” says Gwich’in leader Bernadette Demientieff

Rhett A. Butler 8 Mar 2021
The border region between Bears Ears and Navajo Nation. Photo credit: NASA Landsat

Conservation would be more effective with more Indigenous leadership, says Patrick Gonzales-Rogers

Rhett A. Butler 4 Mar 2021
Haze rising from an oil palm plantation and forest in Riau. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler.

We can now see through clouds to detect deforestation in near real-time

Rhett A. Butler 3 Mar 2021
Satellite image of Reserve de chasse de la Lefini in Republic of Congo. Photo credit: NASA Landsat

‘There are no silver bullets’ in conservation: Synchronicity Earth’s Jessica Sweidan

Rhett A. Butler 2 Mar 2021
Ranger training in Zimbabwe

Saving Africa’s biodiversity is a challenging, but urgent necessity, says Rodger Schlickeisen

Rhett A. Butler 1 Mar 2021
Young girl in the Kayapó-Mẽbêngôkre village of Aukre in the Brazilian Amazon. Photo credit: Cristina Mittermeier

“Securing Indigenous guardianship of vital ecosystems”: Q&A with Nia Tero CEO Peter Seligmann

Rhett A. Butler 23 Feb 2021
Satellite image of Mount Aspiring National Park, New Zealand in February 2021. Photo credit: Maxar Technologies and Planet.

‘Everything on this planet is connected’: Q&A with WWF’s Marco Lambertini

Rhett A. Butler 22 Feb 2021

Backing the stewards of biocultural diversity: Q&A with Indigenous rights leader Carla Fredericks

Rhett A. Butler 19 Feb 2021
Greenpeace volunteers create a burnt smoldering rainforest with a lifelike animatronic orangutan at the headquarters of Oreo cookies near Uxbridge, UK as part of a campaign to pressure Wilmar, which is a palm oil supplier to Mondelez, which makes Oreo cookies. Photo © Chris J Ratcliffe / Greenpeace

‘A better world is within reach’: Q&A with Greenpeace’s Jennifer Morgan

Rhett A. Butler 16 Feb 2021
White pelicans, Pelecanus onocrotalus, Danube Delta rewilding area, Romania. Photo by Staffan Widstrand / Rewilding Europe.

With shared knowledge, ‘we could build a new world’: Q&A with Lisbet Rausing

Rhett A. Butler 8 Feb 2021

Bringing color to conservation: a conversation with wildlife artist Morgan Richardson

Dave Martin, Rhett A. Butler 12 Jan 2021
Peyto Lake, Alberta, Canada. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler

How to turn climate ambitions into reality: Q&A with Nigel Topping

Rhett A. Butler 12 Jan 2021
Elephants in Namibia. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler.

Investing in African wildlife: An interview with David Bonderman

Rhett A. Butler 7 Jan 2021
Gentoo penguins watching an iceberg. Image credit: Mongabay

We’re approaching critical climate tipping points: Q&A with Tim Lenton

Rhett A. Butler 6 Jan 2021

How to transform systems: Q&A with WRI’s Andrew Steer

Rhett A. Butler 5 Jan 2021
Rainforest mantis in Suriname. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler

Rainforests: 11 things to watch in 2021

Rhett A. Butler 1 Jan 2021
Blackwater oxbow lake, rainforest, and a whitewater river in the Amazon. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

How the pandemic impacted rainforests in 2020: a year in review

Rhett A. Butler 28 Dec 2020
Sea turtle in the Pacific.

Nature drone photos: 2020 highlights (Insider)

Rhett A. Butler 25 Dec 2020
A world turned weird. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Top 10 environmental news stories of 2020

Rhett A. Butler 22 Dec 2020
Pine forest in the Sierra Nevada. Photo by Rhett A. Butler / mongabay

Bold sustainability commitments: An interview with Microsoft’s Lucas Joppa

Rhett A. Butler 18 Dec 2020
A canoe on the Maroni river, which forms the border between French Guiana and Suriname. Photo © Didier Gentilhomme.

France’s tropical forest conservation efforts: an interview with AFD’s Gilles Kleitz

Rhett A. Butler 16 Dec 2020
Redwood forest in California. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

‘Nature is next’: Q&A with Finance for Biodiversity’s Simon Zadek

Rhett A. Butler 27 Nov 2020
Tiger in India.

Mongabay launches in Hindi to expand environmental journalism in India

Rhett A. Butler 22 Nov 2020
School of hammerhead sharks, northwest Galápagos. Photo by Greg Asner / DivePhoto.org

Could China become a partner in Galapagos marine conservation? Yolanda Kakabadse thinks so

Rhett A. Butler 16 Nov 2020

Honoring children and protecting the planet: An interview with musician Raffi

Rhett A. Butler 10 Nov 2020
Map of Biodiversity. Esri, NatureServe

Esri co-founder Jack Dangermond: ‘People and planet are inextricably linked’

Rhett A. Butler 30 Oct 2020
The ROV SuBastain with careful guidance by its pilots uses the manipulator arm to collect a geological sample at 500m on Flinders Reef. Photo credit: Schmidt Ocean Institute

Philanthropist Wendy Schmidt: ‘Solutions are always local’

Rhett A. Butler 29 Oct 2020
Redwood forest in Santa Cruz County, California. Photo by Rhett A. Butler for Mongabay.

American Forests CEO Jad Daley: ‘We are one nation under trees’

Rhett A. Butler 28 Oct 2020
Victoria amazonica. © Sir Ghillean Prance

Amazon botanist Sir Ghillean Prance: ‘The environmental crisis is a moral one’

Rhett A. Butler 27 Oct 2020
Frigatebird displaying in the Galapagos. The Wyss Campaign for Nature partnered with the Charles Darwin Foundation to strengthen the management of the 138,872 square kilometer Galapagos Marine Reserve. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

Despite COVID, political divides, conservation can advance: Hansjörg Wyss

Rhett A. Butler 26 Oct 2020

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