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Tracking environmental crime in the Amazon: A conversation with Alexa Vélez

Rhett Ayers Butler 9 Apr 2026

Chapalain during a workshop at the Nature, Environment, Wildlife, Filmmaking Conference in Durban, South Africa, in 2025. Image courtesy of Samuel Gichuru.

Juliette Chapalain on building networks and nurturing talent to tell Africa’s environmental stories

Alejandro Prescott-Cornejo 19 Mar 2026

Story over a Fijian island. Photo by Rhett Ayers Butler

Who actually uses environmental journalism — and why it matters

Rhett Ayers Butler 27 Feb 2026

Lucía Torres posing while the crew frames the side camera for Mongabay’s Against All Odds video series in 2024. Image by Samantha Lee/Mongabay.

How Lucia Torres is bringing people into nature’s frame

Alejandro Prescott-Cornejo 23 Feb 2026

Twahirwa at Rwanda’s flagship Gorilla Naming Ceremony, at the foothills of Volcanoes National Park in the village of Kinigi in northern Rwanda. Image courtesy of Jean Leonald Karuranga.

From Kigali to the Congo Basin: Aimable Twahirwa’s path in environmental journalism

Alejandro Prescott-Cornejo 6 Feb 2026

Redwood forest in Big Basin, California. Photo by Rhett Ayers Butler

On Mongabay’s legacy

Rhett Ayers Butler 30 Jan 2026

Weather over Jambi. Photo by Rhett Ayers Butler.

2025: A year of consequence for Mongabay’s journalism

Rhett Ayers Butler 24 Dec 2025

Background: rainforest in Brunei. Photo by Rhett Ayers Butler

The value of journalism in the AI era

Rhett Ayers Butler 18 Dec 2025

A double-hooked blue shark.

Brazilian government serves shark to infants, prisoners and more: How Mongabay broke the story

Mike DiGirolamo 16 Dec 2025

Illegal air strips identified during the investigation.

Mongabay Latam wins the Global Shining Light Award for investigative journalism

Rhett Ayers Butler 23 Nov 2025

Rhett Butler in the Singapore Botanical Garden in 2023. Image by Alyson Blume.

The secret to building a global newsroom? Lead with impact, says Mongabay founder Rhett Ayers Butler

Alejandro Prescott-Cornejo 13 Nov 2025

The last photo taken between Rhett Butler and Jane Goodall--who shared a friendship for nearly 15 years--at the Forbes Sustainability Leadership Summit. Photo by Sofia Negron.

Rhett Butler reflects on recent accolades, and Jane Goodall’s legacy of hope

Mike DiGirolamo 4 Nov 2025

Akhyari Hananto. Courtesy of Hananto

Connecting Indonesia’s environmental stories to millions

Rhett Ayers Butler 13 Oct 2025

Willie Shubert in Madagascar with lemurs at a rehabilitation center. Note: visitors are not permitted to touch lemurs, but lemurs do as they please. Photo by Rhett Ayers Butler

Building a global newsroom for a planet in crisis: A conversation with Willie Shubert

Rhett Ayers Butler 7 Oct 2025

Mongabay podcasts

With offerings in 4 languages, Mongabay’s podcasts expand global reach

Mongabay.com 10 Jun 2025

Sandhya Sekar in Kerala, India in 2025; Photo by Rhett Ayers Butler.

How Mongabay India took root: Interview with Sandhya Sekar

Rhett Ayers Butler 21 May 2025

Ridzki in Jambi in 2022.

How Mongabay Indonesia grew into a trusted environmental voice: Interview with Ridzki Sigit

Rhett Ayers Butler 6 May 2025

Mongabay mourns the loss of Ochieng’ Ogodo, our East Africa Editor

Mongabay.com 17 Apr 2025

Statement on Mongabay journalist Gerald Flynn’s blacklisting from Cambodia following his reporting on illegal logging

Rhett Ayers Butler 3 Feb 2025

Mongabay celebrates 25 years with Jane Goodall at sold out event

Mike DiGirolamo 15 Oct 2024

Mongabay India wins Greenaccord award for environment journalism

Shreya Dasgupta 15 Oct 2024

In ‘the century of Africa,’ Mongabay’s new bureau reports its biggest environmental issues and solutions

Mike DiGirolamo 25 Jun 2024

Mongabay's founder and CEO Rhett Ayers Butler flying a drone in the Amazon rainforest in July 2023.

World Economic Forum features Mongabay’s work

Mongabay.com 24 Dec 2023

An African elephant calf in kruger National Park, South Africa.

Mongabay discusses the launch of Africa news bureau with director David Akana

Mongabay.com 13 Nov 2023

Mongabay founder wins prestigious 2022 Heinz Award for the Environment

Mongabay.com 22 Sep 2022

Jane Goodall interviewing Mongabay founder and CEO Rhett Ayers Butler for her Hopecast podcast.

Jane Goodall’s Hopecast podcast features Mongabay founder

Mongabay.com 3 Nov 2021

Sahana Ghosh quote

Mongabay-India editor recognized among ‘16 Women Restoring the Earth’

Liz Kimbrough 8 Mar 2021

Rhett Butler in Sarawak, Malaysian Borneo in 2015.

Mongabay founder wins environmental journalism award

Mongabay.com 22 Feb 2021

Mongabay editor Philip Jacobson wins courage in journalism award

Mongabay.com 1 Feb 2021

Tiger in India.

Mongabay launches in Hindi to expand environmental journalism in India

Rhett Ayers Butler 22 Nov 2020

Philip Jacobson shortly after his release from the Palangkaraya Class II detention center on January 24, 2020

Mongabay staffer Philip Jacobson released from jail, transferred to ‘city detention’

Mongabay.com 24 Jan 2020

A close relative of Geckolepis maculata, Gecklolepis megalepis, a new species of fish-scale gecko, was described earlier this year. Photo courtesy of Frank Glaw

Our 10 most popular conservation stories of 2017

Mongabay.com 31 Dec 2017

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