Peter McKenzie

Peter Howard McKenzie (10 September 1952 – 15 April 2012) was a New Zealand conservationist and founder of the Ngā Manu Nature Reserve in Waikanae, New Zealand.

Biography Born in Wellington in 1952, McKenzie was the son of philanthropist Sir Roy McKenzie and grandson of the founder of the McKenzies retail chain Sir John McKenzie. He was educated at Nelson College from 1966 to 1969, where his interest in native plants was encouraged through spending time at the school's outdoor education centre, Mataki Lodge, near Murchison.

In 2009, after three years of work, McKenzie captured footage of a puriri moth hatching from its chrysalis. They are probably the first pictures of a ghost moth emerging.

McKenzie was diagnosed with cancer in late 2010 and he died in 2012.