New Deputy National President

Forest and Bird, Issue 309, 1 August 2003, Page 43

New Deputy National President

A long-serving executive member, Dr Peter Maddison, has been elected unopposed as Deputy National President of Forest and Bird. An entomologist by profession, he is an environmental consultant based in Waitakere City where he has previously been a member of the city council. A sometime chair of the Waitakere branch of Forest and Bird he has been deeply involved in current campaigns

to protect the Auckland west coast and the Ark in the Park project to protect the Waitakere Ranges from pests. He has been a member of the Society’s executive since the 1980s. His involvement in the Society’s committees include resource management, treaty issues, staff matters and his special expertise in pests. (He was the scientist who first warned of the invasion of painted apple moth in west Auckland. ) Before joining the former Department of Scientific and Industrial Research (now Landcare Research) Peter Maddison worked on problem insects in several Pacific islands. He has a particular interest in indigenous people and their rights in the natural world. Dr Maddison also holds an appointment as an adjunct associate professor at Ecoquest, part of the University of New Hampshire, based at Kaiaua on the Firth of Thames: its visiting students are taught the principles of resource management and sustainability in the field.