Rhett Ayers 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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Black-flanked Rock Wallaby (Petrogale lateralis) in Cape Range National Park, Western Australia, Australia. The Australian Government has classed this wallaby as endangered under the EPBC Act. Image by Dsyzdek (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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Some background on Mongabay's origin:

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Photo: commonly-kept gecko was thought to be extinct in the wild

Independent of climate, forest cover in southern Amazon may fall to 20% by 2016

Past decade is warmest in at least 1300 years

Pre-Colombian Amazonians lived in sustainable ‘urban’ society

Markets could save rainforests: an interview with Andrew Mitchell

High mineral prices drive rainforest destruction

Investors seek profit from conserving rainforest biodiversity

“Turtle carbon” could help protect rainforests and save endangered sea turtles

Dell becomes carbon neutral by saving endangered lemurs

Private equity firm to sell biodiversity offsets from rainforest conservation

Often overlooked, small wild cats are important and in trouble

Future threats to the Amazon rainforest

An interview a shaman in the Amazon rainforest

Rainforest destruction becomes industry-driven, concentrated geographically

Rainforests face array of emerging threats

Does logging contribute to AIDS deaths in Africa?

REDD could trigger bias in conservation funding towards carbon-rich ecosystems

Lemurs are key to health of Madagascar’s rainforests

Madagascar signs big carbon deal to fund rainforest conservation

Colombia creates rainforest reserve to protect medicinal plants

Forest carbon credits could guide development in Congo

Defaunation, like deforestation, threatens global biodiversity

Carbon market could fund rainforest conservation, fight climate change

U.S. climate policy could help save rainforests

Sustainability conference reveals a rift in the Malaysian Palm Oil Council

What you do to help save rainforests

Peru fails to investigate murder of Amazon environmental leader

Malaysian palm oil industry puts sustainability in the spotlight

Palm oil boycott an unrealistic approach to conserving biodiversity

Saving the world’s most recently discovered cat species in Borneo

Land invasions undermine Amazon forest law

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