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Sea turtle in the Pacific.

Nature drone photos: 2020 highlights (Insider)

Rhett A. Butler 25 Dec 2020
Blackwater lake, rainforest, and the whitewater Zacambu River in the Peruvian Amazon. Photo by Rhett A. Butler for Mongabay.

Bird’s eye view: Drone photos of the Amazon rainforest (insider)

Rhett A. Butler 20 Apr 2020

Using satellites to alert an Amazonian indigenous community of coca encroachment (insider)

Rhett A. Butler 13 Apr 2020

Telling big environmental stories in a close-knit country (insider)

Carinya Sharples 6 Apr 2020
Approximately 90 percent of the workforce in this back-breaking trade of carrying fuelwood this way is women. Photo by Christopher Lett/Mongabay.

The reporter-editor bond (insider)

Genevieve Belmaker 12 Feb 2020
Coastline of the Big Island, Hawaii. Photo by Rhett A. Butler / mongabay.

Pangolins top the charts while climate stories lag: Insights on our 2019 reporting (insider)

Rhett A. Butler 8 Jan 2020
Snorkeler with three juvenile whale sharks in the Sea of Cortez off Baja California, Mexico. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Our top nature drone photos of 2019 (Insider)

Rhett A. Butler 30 Dec 2019

Finding hope in ‘extreme conservation’ (Insider)

John Cannon 31 Oct 2019

Going the extra mile (Insider)

James Fair 16 Sep 2019

From science to reporting (Insider)

Ignacio Amigo 14 Aug 2019
Baobab Alley outside Morondava. Photo by Rhett A. Butler / Mongabay.

Photo essay: Madagascar’s disappearing dry forests (insider)

Rhett A. Butler 7 Aug 2019
Traditional Iban tattoos on a Dayak leader's back. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Travelogue: Visiting an indigenous rainforest tribe in Borneo (Insider)

Rhett A. Butler 31 Jul 2019

Complicating the narrative about indigenous communities and their struggles (insider)

Kimberley Brown 18 Jul 2019

Travelogue: Ground-truthing satellite data in Borneo (Insider)

Rhett A. Butler 3 Jul 2019
A turtle at Shell Beach in Region 1 of Guyana. Photo courtesy of Guyana Marine Conservation Society.

My journey toward ‘green reporting’ (insider)

Akola Thompson 6 Jun 2019

Fighting corruption in Liberia through on-the-ground reporting (insider)

Ashoka Mukpo 7 May 2019

Trekking the boreal forest for biodiversity (insider)

Erik Hoffner 12 Apr 2019
Hiking through the tiny village of Doong in central Vietnam's Phong Nha-Ke Bang National Park. Photo by Michael Tatarski for Mongabay.

Vietnam a challenging yet rewarding country for environmental reporting (insider)

Michael Tatarski 17 Mar 2019

A nature and reptile enthusiast’s Southern California love story (insider)

Dave Martin 12 Feb 2019

Dodging charging elephants in a Kenyan forest (insider)

Rhett A. Butler 6 Feb 2019
A journalist in a borrowed flak jacket and helmet works in Ni'lin, West Bank in June 2016. Photo by Genevieve Belmaker/Mongabay.

Have a good cry, but don’t miss deadline (insider)

Genevieve Belmaker 9 Jan 2019

How Mongabay grew from a guy in his pajamas to a multinational media organization (insider)

Rhett A. Butler 1 Jan 2019
Brookesia chameleon in the rainforest of Madagascar's Masoala Peninsula. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Challenging the illegal logging regime in Madagascar (insider)

Rhett A. Butler 16 Dec 2018
Mantis in Suriname's rainforest.

Seeing Suriname: A visit to the rainforest goes awry (insider)

Rhett A. Butler 10 Dec 2018
Black lemur on Nosy Komba, Madagascar. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

The second time couldn’t be worse than the first (insider)

Rhett A. Butler 7 Dec 2018
Google Earth image of the Manambolo River Canyon.

The river of blood (insider)

Rhett A. Butler 28 Nov 2018
Glass frog in Siquirres, Costa Rica. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

Inspiration from frogs (insider)

Rhett A. Butler 20 Nov 2018

A lucky child: Mongabay’s origin story (insider)

Rhett A. Butler 14 Nov 2018
A Sumatran rhino in Indonesia. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

Face-to-face with what may be the last of the world’s smallest rhino, the Bornean rhinoceros (insider)

Jeremy Hance 4 Nov 2018
Herd of blue wildebeest in Kenya. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Wildlife’s greatest spectacle is critically endangered (insider)

Jeremy Hance 4 Nov 2018
Puma in Belize. Photo by: Rhett A. Butler.

Why top predators matter (insider)

Jeremy Hance 3 Nov 2018
Puma. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

Zoos: Why a revolution is necessary to justify them (insider)

Jeremy Hance 1 Nov 2018

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