Photo: Students' special habitat for butterflies. Joseph Johnson | Stuff.
A student-led initiative at a Christchurch primary school has helped establish a new home for a native butterfly so rare it does not have a scientific name. Fifteen boulder copper butterflies, a Canterbury-based relative of the copper butterflies found nationwide, were released into a specially built habitat at Burnside Primary School recently. Teacher Bianca Woyak said that the project came about after kids at the school became obsessed with insects, thanks in part to a collectable insects cards promotion by the supermarket Countdown. With the students' help, these little butterflies have a chance to thrive again, Woyak said.
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