Alan Mark
Emeritus Professor Sir Alan Mark, from the Botany
Department of the University of Otago, is an eminent
botanist, plant ecologist and conservationist.
He was president of the Forest and Bird Protection Society
(1986–1990), is a Fellow of the Royal Society of
New Zealand, and received their Charles Fleming
Environmental Award in 2010. He also received the
New Zealand Plant Conservation Network’s Lifetime
Achievers Award in 2010; knighted in 2009 for his
conservation work.