Trampers tasked to help endemic butterfly

January 2020

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Trampers can report sightings of the declining forest ringlet to www.mb.org.nz. Photo: Melissa Hutchinson
One of New Zealand’s most spectacular butterflies is silently slipping away, and trampers might be able to help save it. The endemic forest ringlet is the only butterfly in its family, but its inexplicable decline has scientists worried. In the last decade, the butterfly has disappeared from the Auckland and Wellington regions, amongst other habitats, […]

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