About mongabay.com
With more than one million unique visitors per month, Mongabay.com is one of the world's most popular environmental science and conservation news sites. The news and rainforests sections of the site are widely cited for information on tropical forests, conservation, and wildlife.
Mongabay.com aims to raise interest in wildlife and wildlands while promoting awareness of environmental issues. Originally the site was based around a text on tropical rainforests written by Rhett A. Butler, but today the site has expanded to other topics (like Madagascar [WildMadagasacar.org]) and is available in versions for kids and in more than two dozen non-English languages. Mongabay.com is also publisher of Tropical Conservation Science, a peer-reviewed, open-access academic journal that seeks to provide opportunities for scientists in developing countries to publish their research in their native languages.
Mongabay.com has been featured in the San Francisco Chronicle, Time Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, and other national and international publications.
Mongabay.com was founded in 1999 by Rhett A. Butler. Rhett writes most of the content and takes most of the photos that appear on the site (unless noted otherwise — usually at the top or bottom of a page — it can be assumed that all content on mongabay.com has been written and/or produced by Rhett). Rhett can be contacted via email here.
Since 2005, other people have become actively involved with mongabay.com, including Jeremy Hance, who became mongabay's first employee (other than Rhett) in March 2009; Tina Butler, who wrote feature articles in 2005; Alejandro Estrada, co-founder of mongabay.com's peer-reviewed, open-access, and multi-lingual academic journal Tropical Conservation Science (TCS); and William Bridges, copy-editor for TCS. Other authors and translators have contributed as well and their contributions are acknowledged on their work.
mongabay.com funding
Mongabay.com and WildMadagascar.org are funded through advertising. These sites have no financial backers -- institutional or individual -- other than Rhett.
Site Credibility
Mongbay.com primarily uses peer-reviewed journals and scientists as sources of information for environmental science articles. Further, the site has been recognized as an important and credible information source on forests and biodiversity by individuals at a wide range of institutions, from NGOs to government agencies to private sector entities.
Visitors to mongabay.com
According to Google Analytics, mongabay.com averaged more than 1 million unique visitors per month between Jan 1, 2008 and December 31, 2008. Mongabay ranks in the top 5,000 most visited sites in the U.S. and 10,000 in the world.
MONGABAY.COM
Mongabay.com seeks to raise interest in and appreciation of wild lands and wildlife, while examining the impact of emerging trends in climate, technology, economics, and finance on conservation and development (more)
