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Cromwell Chafer Reserve

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Cromwell Chafer Reserve

A conservationist checks a trap at the Cromwell Chafer Reserve in Central Otago. Land for the reserve was set aside in 1979 to protect the Cromwell chafer beetle, which lives nowhere else.

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Department of Conservation

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John Marris, Beetles – Beetles and humans, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/14382/cromwell-chafer-reserve (accessed 25 June 2026).

Story by John Marris, published 1 March 2009.