Two DOC workers have been battling to save one of the world's rarest plants.
There are just 67 of the hardy wee plants left in the wild and in the world and they are in one remarkable place called Castle Hill in the Canterbury high country.
Some of the plants are over 100 years old but slowly they have been eaten by predators, beaten back by the elements and, last year, hit by the great mouse plague.
This means there will be no new buttercups next year - but will anyone notice and will anyone care?
And what can be done to protect and save this plant?
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