Rhett Ayers Butler

Rhett Ayers Butler

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Rhett Ayers Butler is the founder and CEO of Mongabay. He founded Mongabay out of his passion for wildlife and wild places. He has travelled widely in the tropics and enjoys photography, hiking, and scuba-diving.

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The bull lady of Kathasamipalayam dies at 59 [Obituary]

Rhett Ayers Butler 8 Dec 2025
Saalumarada Thimakka. Image by Arun4speed via Wikimedia Commons (CC0 1.0).

Saalumarada Thimmakka, mother of trees, has died, aged 114 [Obituary]

Rhett Ayers Butler 17 Nov 2025
Sandhya Sekar in Kerala, India in 2025. Image by Rhett Ayers Butler.

Sandhya Sekar on how Mongabay India took root [Interview]

Rhett Ayers Butler 4 Jun 2025
Gopi Warrier in Kerala in May 2025. Image by Rhett Ayers Butler.

How Gopi Warrier helped build Mongabay India’s newsroom [Interview]

Rhett Ayers Butler 4 Jun 2025
Ajith Kumar

Wildlife biologist Ajith Kumar dies at 72

Rhett Ayers Butler 6 Mar 2025
Vimla Bahuguna with Sunderlal Bahuguna in 1972.

Steadfast in struggle: The environmental legacy of Vimla Bahuguna [Obituary]

Rhett Ayers Butler, S. Gopikrishna Warrier 17 Feb 2025
Kallur Balan: The Man Who Planted a Forest

[Obituary] Kallur Balan: The man who planted a forest

Rhett Ayers Butler 11 Feb 2025

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