University of Waikato
Professor Bruce Clarkson ONZM is a restoration ecologist based at the University of Waikato in Hamilton New Zealand.
Since 2016 he has led ‘People, Cities and Nature’, a research programme focusing on restoring damaged or depleted indigenous ecosystems in urban environments. His research has guided biodiversity and restoration projects including the Waiwhakareke Natural Heritage Park and Hamilton’s Nature in the City Programme, and he has contributed to many other North Island
conservation and restoration projects.
He is Chair of the Waiwhakareke Natural Heritage Park Advisory Group, a trustee of the Rotokare (Taranaki) Sanctuary, and patron of the Aongatete Forest Restoration Trust and the Pirongia Te Aroaro o Kahu Restoration Society. He is also the elected Chair of the Australasian Chapter of the International Society for Ecological Restoration and was a member, by appointment of the Minister of
Conservation, of the Interim Oversight Group for the Aotearoa New Zealand Biodiversity Strategy and the Wildlife Act Review Strategic Oversight Group.
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