David Young
David Young is a conservation historian who finds inspiration in personal and community regeneration efforts in coastal Tasman. His interest began in the late ‘60s as a young journalist with the emergence of modern environmentalism, continuing at The Listener in the 70s and 80s. He edited the resource management journal Terra Nova and freelanced in research and advocacy in essays, reviews, television documentaries and hearings, including Treaty work. He was president of the Professional Historians’ Association of New Zealand/Aotearoa. His books include Faces of the River 1986; Woven by Water: Histories from the Whanganui River 1998; Our Islands Our Selves: a history of Conservation in New Zealand 2003; Whio: Saving New Zealand’s Blue Duck, 2005; Rivers: New Zealand’s Shared Legacy, 2013. A Creative New Zealand–Fulbright enabled Wai Pasifika – Indigenous Ways in a Changing Climate in 2021.