Rhett Butler
(He/Him)
As seen in:
Mongabay,
Color Research & Application,
ScienceDaily,
Substack,
Yale Environment 360,
Flipboard,
Memphis Business Journal,
The Christian Science Monitor,
Science Magazine,
The Epoch Times,
Common Dreams
and
Covers:
Conservation, tropical forests, rainforests, climate change, environment, nature, wildlife, oceans, biodiversity, agriculture, commodities, forest fires, deforestation, Indonesia, Brazil, the Amazon
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Rhett Butler’s Biography
Read Full Bio →Rhett Ayers Butler founded Mongabay in 1999 with the mission of raising interest in and appreciation of wild lands and wildlife. For the first ten years of the project, he operated Mongabay on his own, publishing thousands of stories and tens of thousands of photos.
Today Rhett serves as editor-in-chief and CEO of Mongabay, a non-profit media organization with more than 50 staff across five bureaus and a network of around 800 correspondents in 80 countries who pursue stories ranging from conven…
Rhett Butler’s Journalist Portfolio
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Interview
See all 21 answers →What was your first job as a journalist?
Starting Mongabay
Have you ever used a typewriter?
Yes
How is social media changing news?
Contributing to a degraded information ecosystem with increasing disinformation, audience fragmentation, and short attention spans