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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Congo rainforest – 600,000 sq km slated for logging

Rhett Ayers Butler 5 Dec 2005

Temperate forests may worsen global warming, tropical forests fight higher temperatures

Rhett Ayers Butler 5 Dec 2005

Amazon deforestation slows in Brazil for 2005

Rhett Ayers Butler 5 Dec 2005

US denies hurricane link with climate change

Rhett Ayers Butler 1 Dec 2005

Change in Atlantic circulation could plunge Europe into cold winters

Rhett Ayers Butler 1 Dec 2005

Giant, human-sized scorpion discovered

Rhett Ayers Butler 1 Dec 2005

Australian industry embraces green energy while government fights emissions cuts

Rhett Ayers Butler 1 Dec 2005

Rainforests worth $1.1 trillion for carbon alone in Coalition nations

Rhett Ayers Butler 29 Nov 2005

Vaccination can prevent bird flu epidemic

Rhett Ayers Butler 28 Nov 2005

Developing countries: pay us to save rainforests

Rhett Ayers Butler 27 Nov 2005

Exploring freshwater fish habitats in the rainforest of Peru

Rhett Ayers Butler 26 Nov 2005

Singing iceberg discovered in Antarctica

Rhett Ayers Butler 25 Nov 2005

Carbon in Canada's boreal forest worth $3.7 trillion

Rhett Ayers Butler 25 Nov 2005

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
Bufo periglenes. Photo courtesy of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

Golden Toad: Elegy for a jewel of the cloud forest

Rhett Ayers Butler 31 Oct 2005

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Some of the more than 4,000 fishers who make their living in the waterways of Elephant Marsh. Image by Charles Mpaka for Mongabay.
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Creek in the Colombian Amazon. Image by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.
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