Guy Salmon

Salmon in 2021

Guy Winston Salmon ONZM (born 1949) is a New Zealand environmentalist.

Salmon was born in 1949. His father was John Salmon, who was a noted entomologist and professor of zoology at Victoria University of Wellington.[1] His mother was Pamela Naomi Salmon (née Wilton).[2]

Salmon is executive director of the Ecologic Foundation,[3] an independent policy think tank. He has been involved with this organisation in its various forms since the 1970s. In the early 1970s, Salmon was a prominent member of the environmentalist Values Party.[4]

In 1990 and 1991, Salmon was a member of Simon Upton's review group that finalised the definition of sustainable management included in the Resource Management Act 1991.[5]

Salmon stood as a candidate for Parliament on behalf of the Progressive Greens in 1996 and the New Zealand National Party in the 2002 election.

In 1990, Salmon was awarded the New Zealand 1990 Commemoration Medal.[6] In the 2021 New Year Honours, Salmon was appointed an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to the environment.[7]

References

  1. ^ "Salmon, Guy, 1949–". Alexander Turnbull Library. Retrieved 3 December 2020.
  2. ^ Taylor, Alister, ed. (1992). New Zealand Who's Who Aotearoa 1992. Auckland: New Zealand Who's Who Aotearoa. p. 253.
  3. ^ "Ecologic Our Staff". Ecologic Foundation. 2012. Retrieved 25 March 2012.
  4. ^ "Values: The Political Wing of the Arrowmint Crowd". Salient. Vol. 36, no. 11. 30 May 1973. pp. 10–11.
  5. ^ The Beginnings of the Resource Management Act Archived 28 February 2008 at the Wayback Machine, Hon Justice A P Randerson, 'Beyond the RMA', an address given to the Resource Management Law Association (Auckland Branch) at a seminar held on 28 August 2001 to celebrate the 10th Anniversary of the Enactment of the RMA.
  6. ^ Taylor, Alister; Coddington, Deborah (1994). Honoured by the Queen – New Zealand. Auckland: New Zealand Who's Who Aotearoa. p. 325. ISBN 0-908578-34-2.
  7. ^ "New Year honours list 2021". Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. 31 December 2020. Retrieved 31 December 2020.


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