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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Rainforests face myriad of threats says leading Amazon scholar

Rhett Ayers Butler 17 Oct 2006

A look at the biodiversity extinction crisis

Rhett Ayers Butler 7 Oct 2006

Shell chairman calls for clean coal technologies to fight global warming

Rhett Ayers Butler 4 Aug 2006

Arguing climate change to an energy executive

Rhett Ayers Butler 25 Jul 2006

Saving the world in six “easy” steps

Rhett Ayers Butler 6 Jul 2006

Color-changing chameleon snake discovered in jungles of Borneo

Rhett Ayers Butler 27 Jun 2006

When elephants attack. Surviving an elephant charge in the Congo rainforest of Gabon

Rhett Ayers Butler 26 Jun 2006

Madagascar’s reefs escape damage from global warming

Rhett Ayers Butler 22 Jun 2006

Saving Orangutans in Borneo

Rhett Ayers Butler 24 May 2006

Roads tied to bushmeat hunting in Africa

Rhett Ayers Butler 9 May 2006

High oil prices fuel bioenergy push

Rhett Ayers Butler 9 May 2006

Hudson Institute calls Amazon savanna biome a wasteland

Rhett Ayers Butler 23 Apr 2006

6 species of frogs discovered in Laos

Rhett Ayers Butler 20 Apr 2006

US Greenhouse gas emissions hit record in 2004

Rhett Ayers Butler 19 Apr 2006

Global warming to be more moderate than some expect

Rhett Ayers Butler 19 Apr 2006

Life expectancy below 40 for some African countries, global population growth rates slow

Rhett Ayers Butler 16 Apr 2006

Global warming could dry Caribbean, Central America

Rhett Ayers Butler 14 Apr 2006

Global warming could doom the walrus finds new study

Rhett Ayers Butler 14 Apr 2006

Carbon trading could save rainforests

Rhett Ayers Butler 12 Apr 2006

Automakers, oil companies bicker over responsibility for high gas prices

Rhett Ayers Butler 12 Apr 2006

Brazil closes down illegal timber operation, seizes wood

Rhett Ayers Butler 11 Apr 2006

Nitrogen emissions could sink plant species in biodiversity hotspots

Rhett Ayers Butler 11 Apr 2006

Damaged Caribbean reefs under attack

Rhett Ayers Butler 10 Apr 2006

Palo Alto leads United States in renewable energy use

Rhett Ayers Butler 10 Apr 2006

Forest fires burn in Central America

Rhett Ayers Butler 10 Apr 2006

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

Rhett Ayers Butler 10 Apr 2006

Greenpeace accuses McDonald’s of destroying the Amazon rainforest

Rhett Ayers Butler 7 Apr 2006

Tropical deforestation rates to slow in future – new study

Rhett Ayers Butler 6 Apr 2006

Newly discovered rodent not so new or rare after all

Rhett Ayers Butler 5 Apr 2006

United States and Indonesia to fight illegal logging

Rhett Ayers Butler 5 Apr 2006

California plans to cut greenhouse gas emissions

Rhett Ayers Butler 4 Apr 2006

Insects worth $57 billion to US economy

Rhett Ayers Butler 1 Apr 2006

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