Pérrine Moncrieff CBE (née Millais; 8 February 1893 – 16 December 1979) was a New Zealand writer, conservationist and amateur ornithologist.
[2] She is credited with being almost single-handedly responsible for setting aside land that would eventually be the Abel Tasman National Park.
In the 1975 Queen's Birthday Honours, she was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire, for services to conservation as a naturalist and to the Abel Tasman National Park.
[4] The government of the Netherlands awarded her the Order of Orange-Nassau in 1974, in recognition of her efforts to protect Abel Tasman National Park, an area of significant importance in the history of Dutch exploration.
Her masterstroke was naming it after Dutch explorer Abel Tasman and asking the New Zealand government to request the Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands become its patron.