Overview: The task is to manage a new, purpose-built laboratory for captive breeding, release and conservation of Queen Alexandra’s Birdwing Butterfly (Ornithoptera alexandrae) in Papua New Guinea (PNG). The post offers a unique opportunity to help rescue the world’s largest and most critically endangered butterfly from extinction. The successful candidate will finalise and fit out the laboratory, capture, introduce and breed the butterflies on foodplants for subsequent release, and report on progress. The work will also involve the development of captive rearing protocols and a research component relating to the larval foodplant. The incumbent will be required to be in residence by mid-2018, initially for a period of three years, and will be employed by New Britain Palm Oil Ltd, w