Rhett Ayers Butler

Rhett Ayers Butler
Butler in 2023
Born1978 (age 47–48)
United States
Alma materUniversity of California, San Diego (BSc)
OrganisationMongabay
Known forConservation science, Environmental journalism
AwardsParker-Gentry Award, Heinz Award

Rhett Ayers Butler (born 1978) is an American journalist, author and entrepreneur who founded Mongabay, a conservation and environmental science news platform, in 1999.

Butler founded Mongabay out of his interest in nature and wildlife. The name "mongabay" originated from an anglicized spelling and pronunciation of Nosy Mangabe, an island off the coast of Madagascar.

Butler has received multiple conservation, environmental, and journalism awards including the Parker-Gentry Award from the Field Museum of Natural History in 2014, the SEAL Environmental Journalism Award in 2021, the Heinz Award for the Environment in 2022, the Henry Shaw Medal from the Missouri Botanical Garden in 2025, and being named to the Forbes Sustainability Leaders List in 2025.

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