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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Emergent tree in the Amazon Rainforest, Ecuador. Image by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

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Rising carbon dioxide levels could devastate marine food chain

First megatransect of Madagascar completed

20,000 new species of animals discovered in 2005

Galveston aquarium survives Hurricane Rita

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Bird sanctuary in Malaysia damaged by illegal logging and forest clearing

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

Galveston, Houston aquariums survive Hurricane Rita

Hurricane news for specific towns in Texas

193,000 barrels of oil spilled in Gulf wetlands due to Katrina

Fires rage in Bolivian rainforest

What is a Category 5 Hurricane?

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Pig iron production fueling Amazon deforestation

Number of Amazon forest fires in Mato Grosso, Brazil fall 44%

Cost of Iraq War to top $1.25 trillion says academic

conservation scientists want $404 million to save disappearing amphibians

Coca cultivation and eradication destroy rainforest

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Ecotourism in the rainforest, a guide to your first visit

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