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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Some background on Mongabay's origin:

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In this 2016 image, then-U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Samantha Power (left), and then- Cameroonian Minister of Forestry and Wildlife Philip Ngole Ngwese (right), attend the destruction of some 2,000 illegally trafficked elephant tusks and ivory products.

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Rainforest in Gabon surrounded by Ivindo River.

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Automakers, oil companies bicker over responsibility for high gas prices

Brazil closes down illegal timber operation, seizes wood

Nitrogen emissions could sink plant species in biodiversity hotspots

Damaged Caribbean reefs under attack

Palo Alto leads United States in renewable energy use

Forest fires burn in Central America

Long-term cooling driven by Antarctica, not glaciers in Northern Hemisphere

Greenpeace accuses McDonald’s of destroying the Amazon rainforest

Tropical deforestation rates to slow in future – new study

Newly discovered rodent not so new or rare after all

United States and Indonesia to fight illegal logging

California plans to cut greenhouse gas emissions

Insects worth $57 billion to US economy

Pacific Ocean getting warmer and more acidic

Does tropical biodiversity increase during global warming?

Air above Antarctica warming rapidly

Past mass extinction events linked to climate change

Borneo photos

Borneo rainforest protected, oil palm plantation canceled

Brazil to protect Amazon rainforest

Sea levels to rise 20 feet if ice melting trend continues

Home Depot, Lowe’s selling illegal wood from Papua New Guinea-Report

New satellite maps show forest loss and degradation

40 percent of the Amazon could be grassland by 2050

Greenpeace targeted by Exxon-backed group

Disappearing drylands spell trouble says UN

Jungle trekking in Malaysia’s Taman Negara

Global biological diversity in decline

Malaysia to phase out Borneo logging in parts of Sabah state

Global warming causing stronger hurricanes

Reefs threatened by tsunami reconstruction

Bill Gates says laptop for the poor is a joke

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