Categories Mongabay Features Drone images from Hawaii’s Big Island Post author By Rhett Ayers Butler Post date December 21, 2019 Coastline of the Big Island of Hawaii. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.Forest canopy on a private property in Volcano on the big island of Hawaii not far from Volcanoes National Park. The light color of the tree ferns provide a nice contrast from the rest of the forest. Photos by Rhett A. Butler By Rhett Ayers Butler Rhett Ayers Butler is the Founder and CEO of Mongabay, a non-profit conservation and environmental science news platform. He started Mongabay in 1999 with the mission of raising interest in and appreciation of wild lands and wildlife. View Archive → ← Tropical forests’ lost decade: the 2010s → 2019: The year rainforests burned