Mongabay’s Rhett Butler on building a global newsroom for local impact

Mongabay
Feb 9, 2026, 1:49 pm65 ptsTrending
When I launched Mongabay in 1999, I’d just finished college, armed mainly with a love of rainforests, a pile of musty field notes from Borneo to Madagascar and the uneasy realization that the forests I’d explored were vanishing faster than most people knew. I coded the first version of the site by hand in…

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