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Tense and Mulunesh, members of the women-led Nano Hena savings and credit cooperative, pick coffee beans during harvesting season in Illubabor Zone, Ethiopia. The cooperative is supported by Population, Health, and Environment Ethiopia Consortium and Ethio Wetlands and Natural Resources Association, partners working to improve biodiversity and increase resilience in communities in Southwestern Ethiopia. Photo credit: Maheder Haileselassie, Getty Images

Supporting more holistic approaches to conservation: an interview with Kai Carter

Rhett Ayers Butler 20 Oct 2021
El Cono in Sierra Del Divisor National Park, Peru. Photo credit: Diego Perez / CEDIA

Conservation will only scale when non-conservationists see its value, says James Deutsch

Rhett Ayers Butler 12 Oct 2021
Myrna Cunningham

For some Indigenous, COVID presents possibility of cultural extinction, says Myrna Cunningham

Rhett Ayers Butler 11 Oct 2021
Clouded leopard in India. Photo credit: Steve Winter/National Geographic

Small cats should be a conservation priority, says Panthera’s new board chair Jonathan Ayers

Rhett Ayers Butler 20 Sep 2021
Photo credit: Samantha du Toit

‘Conservation should be seen as what communities have always done’, says John Kamanga

Rhett Ayers Butler 20 Sep 2021

When COVID shut Broadway, award-winning actress Jane Alexander went birding

Rhett Ayers Butler 14 Sep 2021
Logging concession in Indonesia. Photo credit: Yudhi Mahendra / Mighty Earth

Fomenting a “Perfect Storm” to push companies to change: Q&A with Glenn Hurowitz

Rhett Ayers Butler 9 Sep 2021
Pine forest in California's Sierra Nevada. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler

Climate philanthropy’s opportunity for impact: Q&A with Bridgespan’s Sonali Patel

Rhett Ayers Butler 7 Sep 2021
In Hebei province, smoke billows from chimneys from the steel plants in 2014. Photo © Lu Guang / Greenpeace

There is no climate solution without China and America, says Li Shuo

Rhett Ayers Butler 2 Sep 2021
Ivindo River in Gabon. Photo credit: ZB

Building the Campaign for Nature: Q&A with Brian O’Donnell

Rhett Ayers Butler 31 Aug 2021
Razan Khalifa Al Mubarak

Conservation needs more women, says Razan Khalifa Al Mubarak

Rhett Ayers Butler 30 Aug 2021
Photo credit: Felipe Rodriguez

It’s time to scrutinize who’s in the room when conservation decisions are made, says Laly Lichtenfeld

Rhett Ayers Butler 25 Aug 2021
Hammerheads. Photo credit: Yves Lefèvre

Protecting Colombia’s shark paradise: Q&A with Sandra Bessudo

Rhett Ayers Butler 9 Aug 2021
Toco toucan (Ramphastos toco). Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler

Betting big on bioacoustics: Q&A with philanthropist Lisa Yang

Rhett Ayers Butler 22 Jul 2021

How to make conservation more effective: Q&A with Nick Salafsky

Rhett Ayers Butler 14 Jul 2021

Overcoming community-conservation conflict: Q&A with Dominique Bikaba

Rhett Ayers Butler 8 Jul 2021
Blackwater lake, rainforest, and the whitewater Zacambu River in the Peruvian Amazon. Photo by Rhett A. Butler for Mongabay.

The conservation gains we’ve made are still fragile, says Aileen Lee of the Moore Foundation

Rhett Ayers Butler 1 Jul 2021
Wild dog. Photo credit: Niassa Carnivore Project NO RE-USE PERMITTED

Reckoning with elitism and racism in conservation: Q&A with Colleen Begg

Rhett Ayers Butler 28 Jun 2021
The "Stop the Chop Protest" in Miri, Sarawak against Malaysian forestry company Samling in October 2020. Photo credit: The Borneo Project

‘Listening to communities must go beyond ticking compliance boxes’, says Peter Kallang, a Kenyah leader

Rhett Ayers Butler 9 Jun 2021
Brett Jenks visits with Mabi, the clown fish mascot of a community Pride campaign in the Philippines in 2011. Photo credit: Rare

‘Inspiring behavior change so people and nature thrive’: Q&A with Rare’s Brett Jenks

Rhett Ayers Butler 1 Jun 2021
African elephants in Queen Elizabeth National Park, Uganda. Photo credit: Gregoire Dubois

An engaged society is key for the future of African conservation, says WWF Africa’s Alice Ruhweza

Rhett Ayers Butler 20 May 2021
Tucabaca Wildlife Reserve in Roboré, Bolivia. Photo credit: Adro Molina

Rallying the public to save Bolivia’s forests: Q&A with Gina Méndez

Rhett Ayers Butler 14 May 2021
Road in Indonesian Borneo. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler

‘I never give up’: Q&A with Chinese environmental lawyer Jingjing Zhang

Rhett Ayers Butler 5 May 2021

“How do we manage fisheries in the midst of climate change?” Q&A with EDF’s Eric Schwaab

Rhett Ayers Butler 3 May 2021
Sphere panoramic photo of redwoods in California. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler

The Nature Conservancy’s Jennifer Morris is an ‘impatient optimist’

Rhett Ayers Butler 27 Apr 2021
Sierra del Divisor. Photo credit: the Field Museum

We need more rewilding and connections to nature, says Enrique Ortiz

Rhett Ayers Butler 26 Apr 2021
California redwoods. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler

Nature is no longer “a nice to have,” it’s “a must-have”: Q&A with André Hoffmann

Rhett Ayers Butler 21 Apr 2021
Pair of zebra in Rwanda. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler

Momentum is building for a ‘robust’ biodiversity framework: Q&A with Elizabeth Mrema

Rhett Ayers Butler 20 Apr 2021

Recognizing the true guardians of the forest: Q&A with David Kaimowitz

Rhett Ayers Butler 14 Apr 2021
Layang Layang Atoll, Spratly Islands, South China Sea.

‘We’re at a tipping point with coal’: Q&A with Bloomberg’s Antha Williams

Rhett Ayers Butler 13 Apr 2021
Sophie, head of the pangolin working group of the CBCGDF, sampling a Chinese pangolin's oral and nasal secretions and skin surface tissues at the Jinhua Wildlife Rescue Center. After being cleared, the pangolin was released into the wild. CBCGDF was been working to protect pangolins since 2015. Photo credit: CBCGDF

Civil society’s push to advance conservation in China: Q&A with Jinfeng Zhou

Rhett Ayers Butler 7 Apr 2021

“Activism gives you hope”: Q&A with Wallace Global Fund’s Ellen Dorsey

Rhett Ayers Butler 6 Apr 2021

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