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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France blocks controversial rainforest gold mine in French Guiana

Rhett Ayers Butler 6 Feb 2008

55% of the Amazon may be lost by 2030

Rhett Ayers Butler 23 Jan 2008

Rich countries grow at ecological expense of poor countries

Rhett Ayers Butler 21 Jan 2008

U.S. biofuels policy drives deforestation in Indonesia, the Amazon

Rhett Ayers Butler 17 Jan 2008

Cellulosic ethanol production could fight Gulf Dead Zone, help fisheries

Rhett Ayers Butler 16 Jan 2008

E.U. may ban palm oil biodiesel

Rhett Ayers Butler 15 Jan 2008

Indonesia seeks to cut fuel subsidies via biofuels

Rhett Ayers Butler 15 Jan 2008

Is tropical deforestation really occurring?

Rhett Ayers Butler 8 Jan 2008

Transportation accounts for 15% of global emissions

Rhett Ayers Butler 7 Jan 2008

Switchgrass a better biofuel source than corn

Rhett Ayers Butler 7 Jan 2008

Butterfly tricks ants into caring for its young

Rhett Ayers Butler 3 Jan 2008

North Atlantic warming is natural, not due to climate change

Rhett Ayers Butler 3 Jan 2008

Peru to replant 10 million hectares of forest

Rhett Ayers Butler 2 Jan 2008

Orangutan should become symbol of palm-oil opposition

Rhett Ayers Butler 2 Jan 2008

As amphibians leap toward extinction, alliance pushes “The Year of the Frog”

Rhett Ayers Butler 31 Dec 2007

Rainforest destruction increasingly driven by corporate interests, not poverty

Rhett Ayers Butler 18 Dec 2007

U.S. corn subsidies drive Amazon destruction

Rhett Ayers Butler 13 Dec 2007

10% of global CO2 emissions result from swamp destruction

Rhett Ayers Butler 10 Dec 2007

Norway puts $560m toward rainforest conservation

Rhett Ayers Butler 9 Dec 2007

World’s largest spitting cobra discovered in Kenya

Rhett Ayers Butler 9 Dec 2007

Rainforest destruction continues in tropical Asia

Rhett Ayers Butler 9 Dec 2007

U.S. to cut funding for rainforest conservation during Bali climate talks

Rhett Ayers Butler 6 Dec 2007

Amazon deforestation could be eliminated with carbon priced at $3

Rhett Ayers Butler 4 Dec 2007

Could the carbon market save the Amazon rainforest?

Rhett Ayers Butler 29 Nov 2007

Can wildlife conservation banking generate investment returns?

Rhett Ayers Butler 27 Nov 2007

Carbon credits for forest conservation concept faces challenges

Rhett Ayers Butler 27 Nov 2007

Is the oil-palm industry using global warming to mislead the public?

Rhett Ayers Butler 23 Nov 2007

Carbon offset returns beat forest conversion for agriculture in Indonesia

Rhett Ayers Butler 21 Nov 2007

Biodiversity conservation will only work if local people benefit

Rhett Ayers Butler 19 Nov 2007

Law enforcement key to saving Borneo’s rainforests

Rhett Ayers Butler 13 Nov 2007

In the Amazon, primary forest biodiversity tops that of secondary forest, plantations

Rhett Ayers Butler 12 Nov 2007

Oil palm does not store more carbon than forests

Rhett Ayers Butler 8 Nov 2007

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