Rhett Butler founded Mongabay in 1999 with the mission of raising interest in and appreciation of wild lands and wildlife. For the first several years of the project, he operated Mongabay on his own, ...

Oxford University Press makes conservation biology textbook by some of the world's most prominent ecologists and conservation biologists available as free download Conservation Biology for All ...

PLEASE NOTE: All figures below refer populations for individual cities, not the population for urban agglomerations. Thus a city like Manila in the Philippines may have a city population of 1.6 ...

This entry contains the total labor force figure.

According to a new report by The Environmental Justice Foundation, growing consumer demand for shrimp is fueling an environmental crisis. Shrimp farming is destroying biologically rich mangrove ...

This table includes estimates of the world's largest cities in 2016. Population data is for 2015 based off various sources, including the United Nations agglomeration estimate; data from lower order ...

All images are the property of Rhett Butler, copyright 2002. Contact me regarding use and reproduction. To learn more about the uniqueness of Madagascar I highly recommend taking a look at my ...

For most of its history Borneo was scarcely populated by humans. The unforgiving climate and dense rainforest kept populations small and scattered. In the past half century this has all changed. The ...

All images are the property of Rhett Butler, copyright 1995. Contact me regarding use and reproduction. Most of Malaysia's remaining rainforests are found on the island of Borneo; peninsular ...

Mexico's total area covers 1,972,550 square kilometers, including approximately 6,000 square kilometers of islands in the Pacific Ocean, Gulf of Mexico, Caribbean Sea, and Gulf of California (see fig.