Stories about the great white butterfly

Conservation blog

A behind-the-scenes look at DOC's conservation work.

• Photo of the week: Great white butterfly eradication
  29 November 2016
  Last week it was announced that the great white butterfly pest had been successfully eradicated from the Nelson Tasman area.
• Searches to confirm pest butterfly eradicated
  13 March 2016
  No great white butterfly detections for more than 14 months in Nelson Tasman is a promising sign, but the search for this pest continues.
• Jobs at DOC: Kahurangi Cronin, Butterfly Ranger
  11 June 2015
  DOC Ranger Kahurangi Cronin shares her experiences as an expert butterfly hunter based in Nelson.
• Great white butterfly pest in decline
  12 September 2014
  By Trish Grant, Communications Advisor, Nelson The battle against the great white butterfly pest appears to be working with detections dropping by more than fifty percent in autumn this year, compared to autumn last year. The species is only found in the Nelson/Tasman region and DOC has been leading a programme to eradicate the pest out of concern for the threat it […]

Great white butterfly in the news

Recent media releases about DOC's work with the great white butterfly.