Rhett Ayers Butler

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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Britain is largest importer of illegal timber in EU says WWF

Rhett Ayers Butler 21 Nov 2005

Salamanders feed on bat guano in cave system

Rhett Ayers Butler 21 Nov 2005

Developed countries cut greenhouse gas emissions 5.9% since 1990

Rhett Ayers Butler 17 Nov 2005

Solar projects in California desert could help state’s energy problems

Rhett Ayers Butler 17 Nov 2005

Coral reefs decimated by 2050, Great Barrier Reef’s coral 95% dead

Rhett Ayers Butler 17 Nov 2005

Australia’s freshwater ecosystems threatened by climate change

Rhett Ayers Butler 16 Nov 2005

World deforestation rates and forest cover statistics, 2000-2005

Rhett Ayers Butler 16 Nov 2005

Massive climate change rocked ecosystems, animals 55 million years ago

Rhett Ayers Butler 14 Nov 2005

Pictures from Peru

Rhett Ayers Butler 14 Nov 2005

Brazliian environmentalist dies after self-immolation protest

Rhett Ayers Butler 14 Nov 2005

Global deforestation rates fall, but area the size of Panama still disppears each year

Rhett Ayers Butler 14 Nov 2005

Logging threatens Mayan ruin, forest in Guatemala

Rhett Ayers Butler 13 Nov 2005

20% of the world’s mangroves lost since 1980

Rhett Ayers Butler 11 Nov 2005

Climate change brought tropical forest to Wyoming

Rhett Ayers Butler 9 Nov 2005

Flu pandemic “inevitable” and to cost $800 billion say World Bank, WHO

Rhett Ayers Butler 7 Nov 2005

Forests of Michoacan, Mexico disappearing

Rhett Ayers Butler 7 Nov 2005

Tamiflu shortage may be overcome by drug combo

Rhett Ayers Butler 2 Nov 2005

Logging impact worse than thought in the Amazon

Rhett Ayers Butler 1 Nov 2005

100 deadliest earthquakes since 1900; Kashmir quake ranks #11

Rhett Ayers Butler 11 Oct 2005

Amazon at record low — communities isolated, commerce stalled

Rhett Ayers Butler 11 Oct 2005

25% probability of 7.0 earthquake hitting San Francisco by 2025

Rhett Ayers Butler 10 Oct 2005

Harvesting tornados as power plants; renewable wind vortex energy

Rhett Ayers Butler 9 Oct 2005

El Salvador’s tropical storm damage worsened by deforestation

Rhett Ayers Butler 4 Oct 2005

Two-headed turtle found in Havana, Cuba

Rhett Ayers Butler 1 Oct 2005

Rising carbon dioxide levels could devastate marine food chain

Rhett Ayers Butler 29 Sep 2005

First megatransect of Madagascar completed

Rhett Ayers Butler 27 Sep 2005

20,000 new species of animals discovered in 2005

Rhett Ayers Butler 26 Sep 2005

Galveston aquarium survives Hurricane Rita

Rhett Ayers Butler 26 Sep 2005

What to pack for your visit to the rainforest

Rhett Ayers Butler 26 Sep 2005

Bird sanctuary in Malaysia damaged by illegal logging and forest clearing

Rhett Ayers Butler 26 Sep 2005

Malaysia to build palm oil biodiesel plants to counter high oil price

Rhett Ayers Butler 26 Sep 2005

Galveston, Houston aquariums survive Hurricane Rita

Rhett Ayers Butler 26 Sep 2005

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